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The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 96

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bMountiins Uirn MM. HEN Helen Wetle, a winsome Oregon Miss, dons her shorts and takes to the great outdoors, there Is never a ques said recently. "When you make an ascent with Miss Wetle, you just have to keep right on climbing. Taking time out for a rest, when she seems fresh and eager to go on, makes a he-man climber look like a softy. That's why accompanying her isn't the picnic it would seem to be just by looking at her." Helen, herself, says that her staying power is due mainly to the way she has been able to combine her two favorite sports.

Instead of driving to the base of the mountain, the way most climbers do, she pedals there on her bicycle. Then she keeps right on pedaling up the slope as far as she is able. On tion In her mind as to which of her two favorite sports mountain climbing and bicycling will occupy her. She has managed to combine both of them in a form of exercise and recreation which physical culture experts say is ideal. As one of the healthiest girls in America, with the body of a Greek goddess, Helen heartily agrees with them.

There are many towering mountains in the state where Helen lives. The lofty Three Sisters range, whose trio of picturesque peaks have long been favorites with West Coast climbers, is but a short distance from her home. Novices find it a strenuous trip to the summit but it is a com-paratively easy Jaunt for Helen who has progressed to higher and more difficult peaks. Even hardened climbers, veterans of many ascents, are a bit over-awed by Helen's stamina when they accompany her on a mountain climbing excursion. "She has the nerve and staying power of a Swiss mountain guide," one celebrated climber who has scaled many European peaks Long practice has enabled her to ride her bicycle up many a bumpy trail which would cause other cyclists to spill.

This she says has helped to develop her leg and back muscles for mountain climbing. When she has pedaled as far up the slope as possible for her to navigate on wheels, she parks her mechanical mountain goat and continues her climb on foot. Coming down, she reverses the process and then pedals slowly home. This extra bit of eye- ling, Instead of driving back, is highly beneficial, she believes, for instead of relaxing completely after her climb, she gradually tapers off. Nature Seems to Have Been In a Whimsical Mood When She Made Jester Rock, Near Green River, Utah.

ArtWorks Carved MotherNature Vfipf ALMOST every locality has some point of scenic interest which has been carved out by Nature during the course of many centuries. While some of these examples of natural sculpture place a considerable strain upon the imagination, others do bear a striking resemblance to human heads, animals, birds, and man-made objects. Four of the most interesting examples of these natural likenesses are shown on this page. In the picture of the rock which resembles a sleeping lion, wind and weather have done an excellent sculptoring job. The boulder which stands 15 feet high is located at Pelham Park, New York.

The Queen's Castle, one of the many wonders of Bryce National Park in Southern Utah, is a remarkable pile of natural architecture as may be seen in the accompanying photograph. Erosion Miss Helen Wetle, One I 1 1 Of Oregon's Prettiest SIiMttispiSiiffe Mountain Climbing UWmBBimSSMiM liilllililllM Champions, Who Does MWW Ml W9mmm9MWM Part of Her Climbing ff i m2 IlllllllllilllP ISllilllllll llllllilllill caused by wind and water has "painted" it In color ful tints of tan, purple, yellow and red. Another example of Mother Nature's art work is shown in the picture of a piece of jasper agate, which was found in the Imperial Valley of California. The reproduction of the head of a penguin on its surface is a queer freak. Jester Rock in the San Rafael desert not far from Green River, Utah, is a similar artistic accident.

This Piece of Jasper Agate, initio imm, I Picked Up In California, Has a Remarkable Likeness of a Penguin on It. 11 1 1 1 Uiiti is 8 8 IEUTENANT FRANK GLEASON, one of the crack sleuths attached to the Police Department Detective Bureau in Brooklyn, New York, has helped to unravel many crime mysteries. Recently he was confronted with one In which all his knowledge of scientific detection didn't help. The Lieutenant was riding In a subway train when he noticed that the young woman at his left was searching for something. "I've lost my wedding ring," she told him.

Gleason helped her look for it, but they couldn't find it. The next morning, as he was having his shoes shlned, he saw something gleaming in his trouser cuff. Bending down, he triumphantly fished the missing wedding ring out of it. But he had forgotten to take the young i i 11 af A 1 Wind and Weather Sculptured This Rocky Likeness of a Sleeping Lion. The Oddity Is in Tclham Park, New York, and Attracts Hundreds of Visitors Every Year.

a n's name and address. The ring awaits its claimer at headquarters. Mix'i 'kiJr 'W A 1 i 1 1 I iJ 1 is mff 1 1 I I i I 1111 II 111 I 'HENEVER a new dance the Big Apple. While the dance itself is a recent one, the Big Apple, a large, craze, a popular ramo or movie character or other two-story dance hall and eating place shaped like an apple, with a coat of rosy colored paint and a chimney in the form of a stem, has been a Kansas land mark for many years. Long before the Big Apple dance craze swept over the country from Dixie and set thousands of youngsters to swaying, bending and going through contortions, the folks of Wathena and Its environs were pointing to the Big Apple dance hall with pardonable much publicized figure is thrust into the limelight, restaurants and night-clubs, road stands and Wathena, Kansas, Is Proud of Its "Big Apple" Restaurant and Dance Hall, Which Is in the Heart of An Orcharding Region and Was Erected Before the Big Apple Dance Became Nationally Popular.

-0 iLZJf lunch wagons are immediately named after it. From Maine to California, a man motoring over state highways is confronted with signs recommending that he try the culinary delights at the "Three Little Pigs," the "Garbo," the "Charlie McCarthy" and other places named after the great and near great. In fact one can almost tell the year in which the eating place was opened by the name given to it transcontinental motorists have eased the boredom of their long trips by playing a guessing game with the names of the restaurants they pass along the way. They all fall down when they pass through Wathena, Kansas, and glimpse pride. Living in a section of the state where big, luscious apples are grown, they felt the dance hall proprietor was doing his bit to publicize this fruit and the farmers who own the orchards.

The Wathenans showed their appreciation by patronizing the Big Apple and on Saturday nights, young blades with their hair slicked down and girls in their very best frocks, drive into town from miles around to meet at the novel dance hall to step to the latest dance tunes. When the Big Apple craze hit Kansas recently, it found a dance hall already built to match it. VjL1 mmn jwSi I I I jst ssl id Nature Can Be an Architect, too, as the Towering Rock Called the Queen's Castle, in Bryce National Park, Utah, Shows in a Spectacular Manner. 1338, by American Weekly. Inc.

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