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The Shadow of Her Past Synopsis

Elayne Chalmers goes to Italy to finish her musical education, and there meets and falls in love with Peter Marsant, an artist. The girl's head is turned by the reception she gets from Italian nobility, and she casts Peter lightly aside to carry on a flirtation with a duke. The affair gets serious, and Elayne asks the duke to marry her, and he, laughing, says that wasn't at all what he meant. Peter and the duke fight a duel in which Peter is seriously wounded. Elayne, realizing her love for him, goes to the room where he lies unconscious, and nurses him back to health. Thus far the story runs along conventional lines, but it ends in a realistic manner; for these twain do not, as usual, "marry and live happily ever after," but are sundered by a sentiment forcibly and artistically depicted.

A Trip to the Wonderland of America Synopsis

This fascinating region was set apart as a Government Reservation, to be known as Yellowstone Park, in 1S72. The park proper is about 62 miles long, from north to south, and 54 miles wide. While the tourist may reach the park entrance by rail, it has been decreed by Uncle Sam that beyond the Great Lava Arch Gateway the iron horse shall not trespass. So here leaving the pathway of steel we take our place on one of the six-horse coaches that run from Gardiner up to Mammoth Hot Springs. Coaching, Troops, Morris Basin, Great Fountain, Pack mules, Riverside Geyser, Old Faithful, Deer and Bear, Upper Falls, Canyon, Field Glasses. Standing on a balcony at Artist's Point we take up the field glass to have a tele-photo panorama of these weird walls with their clinging pine trees. We look down the Great Gorge. On either side walls of exquisite color rise with here and there pinnacle-like great church spires. Above our heads fly eagles who build their nests and raise their young on the top of these lofty peaks. The scene is a powerful one and beyond words, but the Great Falls add force and quality of action which tempers and dignities the whole scene. This enormous volume of water that looks like a curtain of lace, tumbles over a cliff of volcanic rock 310 feet. Here the traveler finds himself spellbound, held by the pure beauty of the scene. In turning away he pauses to marvel at the wonders of nature and the beauties of our great national playground.