Evening star., 1944-10-22
The Travellers Notebook
Hurricane Refugee Pouses to Make Bed;
Autumn Rains Bring Mroges in Scenic West;
FoX-Hunting Season On in North Carolina

Miroges in Scenic West;
On in North Carolina
dashed back for her rings. And
despite our pleas to hurry, hurry,
she stopped to make the bed.
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Trick ephemeral lakes, whose
white movable seas of the Great
American desert, with the October
and November rains again present
natures fascinating and bizarre
phenomena in the scenic West
points out the American express in
its series Of American wonderlands
From the furnacelike basins OF
Death Valley. trough of dazzling
heat, to Soda Lake, shimmering
sink of the Moiave up through
Nevada, Utah and Oregon, strange
realistic pictures combining the ut
most In the magic of mirage exhibits
the illusory silver screen of the
desert. Shimmering lakes like snow
across the floor of furnace basins is
caused by the Salinas, which spreads
dazzling incrusted salt fields in the
Death Valley, presenting white
frozen sea effects.
Salinas or Playa, mark the sites
Of these ephemeral lakes, where un-
derlying formations hold the water
table close to the surface. During
rainfall these lakes sink and disap-
pear. In this region are the sea-
level lakes which SC vividly tantal-
ize and fooled the luckless forty
miner" by their moving pictures Of
stage coaches. Stretching in gleam-
ing salt fields and alkaline marshes
evaporation sucks up the shallow
water from the pasty Salinas. These
wide dusty beds, t1oored with hard
clay or brown porus in the sun
besieged valley, create an over
evaporation quickly sucking up the
first seasons rains.
Here is presented the Devil Dust"
or the vivid mirage" where, in
fancy, airplanes rise from rippling
waters, automobiles race on perfect
roads, with armies of soldiers
marching on the waters surface.
Other known tEeaters of the dry
lakes where water vanishes quickly
leaving the mirage" are the
Brauns Playa in Southern Nevada
and Silver Dry Lakes in California.
Other regions are the Great Basin
Desert in Nevada, Utah and South
ern Oregon.
First fox hunt of the season for
the Sedgefield Hunt was held near
Greensboro, N. c., recently. A bar
becue for farmers upon whose land
the hunt was held was given later
IN the day.
The remainder of the 1914 season
follows: October 81, Adams farm;
october Is, Sedgefield Hunt Stables;
october %, Adams farm: October
20, Sedgefield Hunt Horse Show
(amateur), Sedgefield stables; No.
vember l, Sedgefleld Hunt stables;
November 4, Adams Farm: Novem-
ber 8, Sedgefield Hunt stables: No.
vember II, Armistice Day Hunt,
Sedgef1eld Inn; November IS, Sedge-
field Hunt stables; November 18,
Adams Farm; November %, Sedge-
field Hunt Stables; November Is,
Dan Walkers farm; November 80
Thanksgiving Hunt, Embassy Club,
followed by annual hunt breakfast
at IL noon.
The luxury and speed which await
postwar vacationists have been spot
lighted by United Air Lines recent
order for fleet of new and S
mile-a- minute Douglas DC-4s and
dogs. The giant four engined
superliners will be able to reduce
coast forecast flying time to as low
as 81 hours.
Within easy reach of the average
vacationist, both from the stand
point of money and time, will be
recreational areas from one end of
the Nation to the other-the rugged
scenery of Colorado, the dude ranch
country, the refreshing beauty of
the Pacific Northwest's evergreen
playground; the grandeur of Yel-
loWStone, Yosemite, Rainier, Rocky
Mountain and other national parks;
the tramping grounds. historic places
and scenic beauties of New England
and the East.
Great luxury liners not only will
fly holiday travellers to all their
former haunts. but will be whisking
them-in matter of hours-to such
spots as Alaska, Hawaii, Brisbane,
London and Paris.
With air fares approximately the
same as rail plus pullman, the va
cationist will be able to leave Wash
ington at the breakfast hour and be
in Yellowstone for dinner. Or, If
Hawaii were his goal, he could span
the Pacific to reach Honolulu by
sunrise next morning.
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Although inquiries for winter