New-York tribune., 1922-07-16

ing with excited gestures and the crowd hung
on her words.
And he almost scalded to death in the
boiling water before they could pull him outl"
just at this thrilling climax the real guide.
who had finally solved the mystery of her
stolen party, caught up and the conspirators
beat hasty retreat, leaving their erstwhile
clients to disillusionment and facts.
And who can say which was the more inter-
esting.
There is legend woven around the China
man geyser, small boiling pool back of Old
Faithful, to the effect that once Chinaman
came TO the Yellowstone to set himself up in
the laundry business. He decided Oh this little
hot basin as the site for his laundry and set
up his tent directly over it. However. soap
has peculiar effect any Of the gysers A
cake dropped into one Of them will start it in
violent eruption, and when the Celestial first
started operations that is exactly what hap
pened. WHISH! went the spouter, away went
clothes, tent and, some say the Chinaman.
True or not, the yarn gave two enterprising
young savages at Old Faithful camp hunch,
and, gathering up what soiled duds they had
Handkerchief Pool in the Black Sand Basin
near by. Ordinarily when a handkerchief is
thrown into the hot spring it is whirled around,
sucked down out of sight and then returned
TO the surface, cleaned.
And, not being geyser, with no danger
of spouting, it worked like charm. Savage
wasAday went off with an ease only duplicated
BY the lady in the washing machine advertise
nent, and soon uEdies and outing skirts were
neatly laid ols On the clean white formation to
Try
Roosevelt gem in an emerald setting Of
forest and mountain, is perhaps the spot in all
The Yellowstone where the college girls get
closest to real nature; for here The elk, the
tea" and ether creatures cf the Wild seem to
congregato and friendly relations arc easily
established. When Camp Roosevelt was opened
last for the season, it was found ttat she bears
sad rl2ac shoot-the-chutes of TIE roof of the
,@1geyt leg building, climbing eravely to the
g g9ie and s,i1.aa, Gay,y down iato pile of
brush And always their nl5od sex ms Just as
cayfal
IN fact, say TIE savages, they set too tame,
and many has hoea tie time when oil Molly, a
f1eat brown bear. has emerged hastily from
The Kitchen door just ahead Of broom indg-
nantly welded by Pi Phi from Smith, or
Tri Delt from State of Westinghouse start
ing sight if it could be staged at home by any
# the girls, but commonplace enough when
one is Yellowstone savage
The savages are uniformly sclf-reliant and
eacahlc. A maid had gone fishing one day,
and reaching plasc in the l7ivehole River
here tie great ea adda lly e all rainbow
.o1t simply ma3' I've, fo@nd that she could
NJ cast q line cx-ept from the ton Of narrow
.ecr9e, 50 feet above stream. Climbing up she
fond log fallen clear across the gorge and
unhesitatingly Skinned out to where she could
drop her line into INC enticng pool below.
There r?c-e man discovered her as she
wa3 pregaring to return.
Wait he shouted, an help you,'' and
started out on tie log after her.
Il don't need any help, thank you," was the
gepiy, but he would he chvarous, and
was already en- his way. And half way Ou.,
60 fect above sheer nothing, he caught o~
the projecting stomp Of a broien branch, hung
up fast, anl had to be eascd OF and back by
the girl he souf lit to rescue,
Even the primitive aboriginal american, the
indian, gave his Official o. K to the sayages
igst year, when Sioux brave, travelling
through stopped at the Canyon, where the
girls had originated, costumed and staged an
Indian pageant with no mean success
It was interesting to watch these foolish
white squaws initiating the noble red pSsn,
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