your accommodation and entertainment. Trips within the parks are very reasonable in cost and are usually much cheaper than similar tours outside. In Yellowstone Park, for instance, the visitor can secure for $54 a complete tour of the park requiring five days and four nights and including transportation over road mileage varying from 160 to 200 miles, depending upon the entrance and exit gateways chosen, and board and lodging in fine hotels. If the facilities of the permanent camp system are selected, this tour costs only $45. Considering present-day costs and the fact that these parks are high in the moun tains, these rates are exceedingly reasonable. That the people are using and enjoying their national parks is abundantly proved by the fact that over one million visitors spent more or less time in them in 1920. That this number will soon be doubled is the hope of the National Park service, and of all its officers, who are striving to make conditions pleasing to every guest, whether he be rich or poor, or whether he comes with his own camp outht or avails himself of the facilities of the authorized public utilities. T announces Has History Done Fairly With Her? HE curtain rises on an oriental scene. A cloud of incense floats over the audience. All eyes are turned on the stage expectantly, for the program a "Cleopatra dance." Suddenly a young woman, clad in vaudeville's latest creation, emerges from behind the scenery, followed by the white glow of the spotlight. Stopping in the center of the stage, she announces in a voice which betrays no misgiving as to her identity, "I am Cleopatra-the world's greatest vampire!" And behind the footlights we see the resurrected form of the great Egyptian queen. No other historical figure, sleeping beneath the sod of two thousand years of human history, has been so mistreated. What kind of a woman was this stareyed Egyptian, who has left the impression of her personality on the memory of mankind for sixty generations? 1. Cleopatra was a young woman. She appeared on the stage of history as a girl of fourteen years, became joint heir to the throne of Egypt at seventeen, attracted the attention of Julius Caesar at nineteen, and secured the friendship of Mark Anthony at twenty-eight. At the time of her death she was but thirty-nine years of age. Throughout life, the bloom of youth never passed from her cheek. Flung into the whirlpool of the political and military intrigue of the Roman world, she achieved in the beautiful hour of youth a name which time has no power to erase. "Let no man despise thy youth," said St. Paul. It was good advice. The deeds of young men and women have shaped the destiny of the world. Washington was appointed adjutant-general of Virginia at nineteen. William Cullen Bryant wrote "Thanatopsis" at the same age. John Calvin wrote his "Institutes" when he was but twenty-six. Young man, young woman, give the world your best! Your time is coming; your day is dawning. Over the hills and valleys of earth the star of destiny is shining. 2. Cleopatra was a beautiful woman. Her beauty is described by ancient writers as transcendent, irresistible, and characterized by its variety of expression. It was ever new-never the same on two occasions. Cleopatra was a Greek. No drop of oriental blood flowed in her veins. Her beauty was chiseled after the Greek pattern. Well-moulded features, although small and delicate, an aquiline nose, large eyes, a well-rounded chin, dark hair, small in stature, giving the impression of daintiness-these are the elements of personal appearance possessed by the most attractive woman of antiquity. 3. Cleopatra possessed a wonderful voice. She charmed with the music of articulation. "There is tremendous power in a voice." In it there is magnetism which draws the soul. 4. Cleopatra was a woman of great intellectual gifts. She was a woman of culture, acquainted with history, skilled in music, fluently speaking seven or eight languages, patron of art and science. Without an interpreter, she conversed freely with Etheopians, Hebrews, Arabs, Syrians, Troylodytes, Parthians and Medes. At her request, Anthony gave to the library at Alexandria 200,000 volumes, which had come into his hands through military conquest. Cleopatra lived in a great age. Rome, a city of millions of people, had nearly conquered the world. She mastered her age. She lived in a great city. Alexandria was the commercial center of the world and contained the largest library of the time. She ruled her city. She descended from a great line of kings. The Ptolemys, established on the Egyptian throne by Alexander the Great, had reigned for three hundred years. She was worthy of her ancestry. She won the love of two great men. Caesar was the military hero of the Eternal City and author of one of the greatest Latin classics. Anthony was a general of no mean ability and one of Rome's greatest orators. Cleopatra retained the conquests she won over these men the work of a woman of intellectual power, who was not a sensual beauty. "Mind is the master-power that moulds and makes, while all around her ancient states and kingdoms were falling before the sweeping tide of the imperial armies. 6. Cleopatra was a woman of ambition. She had a purpose. She knew where she wanted to go, and humanity stood aside to let her pass. She was a brilliant star moving in a well-defined orbit of her own creation. Independence for her nation and recognition of her throne were the things she sought from And man is mind, and evermore he Rome. No doubt she also dreamed of takes The tool of thought, and, shaping what he wills, universal power, imagining herself seated on earth's greatest throne with a worshiping world at her feet. But the odds were Brings forth a thousand joys—a thou- against her. In another age her dreams |