Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-24
MRS. M. 1. STANLEY

was Tuesday afternoon and evening
passed as guests Of Mrs. M. L. Stan
ley at her camp Dayton Lodge"
which is beautiful situated on Lake
Maranacook.
During the afternoon Mrs. Stanley
related in a charming manner the
pleasures of her recent trip to Cali
fornia and Alaska. She had taken
countries she passed through and
gathered numerous specimens which
she brought home and exhibited to
the Club. at this time. She gave the
specimens to the Club president, Mrs.
Pitman, who plans to arrange a
frame for each of the students con-
tanning some Of the specimens.
Some of the students went for a
the Lodge and found the impatiens
biflora, jewel weed, mimulus ring
ems, (monkey fower). specimens
were seen of the lythrum salicaria
purple loostrife), and the silens
latifolia, bladder campion). Much
interest was shown in the thallus of
marchantia bearing erect branches
with umbrella like tops, the arcge-
gonia situated on the underside of
the umbrella between the lobes and
on another specimen the erect
branches that contain the antherida
Lunch was served on the porch
with music, selections of actual bird
songs, the birds making the records
The nightingales' record was espec-
tally enjoyed for who has not at some
time >longed to hear the song of the
nightingale?
Next week, Thursday. July 81, the
Club hope to entertain John c. Par
lin, principal of the Freedom Acad-
envy. The class will go on the nine
o'clock car to Mrs. Stevens camr
"O-Te- Sa- Ga" Mr.. Parlin will tel
of the moses, lichens. flowers, etc.
and is considered one of the best
naturalists in the State.
During the month of August the
Club plan to meet on Wednesdays in
stead of Tuesdays.
Mrs. NJ. l.. Stanley. who is pass
ing the summer at her lovely cot
tage, Daytona Lodge. on Lake Mar
anacoOk. is one Of the most interest
ing of 'Winthrops annual summer
residents.
Mrs. Stanley is daughter of
Winthrop for she was born here in
the old Packard homestead on High
land avenue, which Mrs. Stanley and
her late husband, Murray l.. Stanley
remodelled and occupied for a mum
Der OF years as a summer home, and
which is now owned and occupied by
Charles F. Marble and family.
During the greater part of the year
Mrs: Stanley makes her home in
Daytona, Fla, where she owns a
beautiful dwelling, but she returns
each year to her native town for the
summer season; is one of the earliest
arrivals at Lake Maranacook, and
among the last to leave.
After a winter crowded with social
activities, various branches of club
work the activities of the y. w. c. A.
OF the Florida Legislative Council
ana numerous demands as O. public
speaker, Mrs. Stanley thoroughly en-
JOYS the restful quiet of her Maine
cottage home, nestled close to the
shore of lovely Maranacook and sur
rounded by beautiful evergreen trees
and the birches for which Mariana
cook is famous.
In Florida, Mrs. Stanley is well
known as a club woman. She has
served the Palmetto Club of Daytona
as president for six years, during
winch time its membership more
than doubled and the club house
was remodelled and enlarged until
IL Is one of the finest in the State.
during her years as head official.
MrS. STANLEY worked untiringly for
the up-building of the various de-
partments in which the club was in
terested. and at the same time found
tline Tor work in the Y. w. c. A.
anu 10 serve as treasurer of the
FLORIDA Legislative Council. which
embraces seven of the leading wom-
en- organizations of the State. She
also held the office of president Of
the County Federation and is now
a wee president of the Florida State
Federation, with q membership Of
about 1000 in her section.
Mrs. Stanley holds membership 4,
the Winthrop Literary Club and at
the recent biennial of the General
Federation held in California, she
represented Maine as a delegate
pre1errlng to represent her native
state, though, the same honor was
oHered her by the state of Florida
After attending the great conven.
tlon, filled with interesting incidents
ana attended by so many distin,
gulshed women, Mrs. Stanley Joined
party of 160 New England women
organized by the Massachusetts Fed,
GRAFTON for a tour of northern Can
ada and Alaska.
VI her delightful trip she told in
most interesting way Tuesday aft
ernoon, when the ladies of the Ma.
ture Club were her guests.
The Land of the Midnight Sun
with its wonders of scenery. its nro.
fusion of fruits and flowers. tie
snow topped mountain kpeaks and
us icebergs and glaciers, was graph
lcaily described and pictures and
specimens of the flowers and grasses
'''o0
The wonderful twilight hours
when sun dips low to the horizon
Iollowed by the flush of morninp
with no intervening darkness, Mrs
otahiey describes in most interest,"
ing way: AT no hour in the "A, she
salo: ala you need artificial light to
read or write. She herself enjoyed
Ine mover experience of writing let
Iers 10 her friends at II o'clock at
night by the light of the sun.
The party of which she was a
member visited British Columbia.
Yukon Territory, Saskatchewan. All.
berta and Alaska, stopping at Lake
Atlin. Skagway, Juneau. Wrangell,
White Horse, Medicine Hat and
Mrs. Stanley was much impressed
by the beauty of Alaska. It's flow.
ers. she said, were of unusual size,
the colorings of skies and waters of
a brilliancy unknown in the more
southerly states. and its glaciers and
icebergs magnificent beyond descrip-
ton. She exhibited specimens of red