visitors to me when their creations become toe deep. I hr.ve 

 e:cpl.'.ined *--e formation oi petriiied wood over and over, be- 

 cause a piece of It in the San Joaquin Counties "building in- 

 terests people into asking c^uesticns and Mr.Safford of Fresno 

 or lr. Griff in of Iladera send the questions to me. 



Personal anecdotes have been nunerous. One young lady 

 exclaimed: "I am Just crazy r.bout Forest Rangers; I love those 



rling buttons so 1 ." She asked ne where I was from, tind I 

 told her all of the rangers on the Sierra were married. 



Another said : "I br.ve been spending the sunnier at Jer- 

 sey clc.le and know the rangers so well." I aslred her if they 

 wera married on the Sierra. 3He sc.id "Oh, yes; but they are 

 avrfully nice." Suspicious . Suspicious. How about it, 

 llariposa District ? 



Another time I waa told that the Forest Service had 

 ta]:en ranches for ranger stations near Uorthfork, Made re, 

 County. Yes, I learn a lot every day. 



The Dudley Hot! on Picture Company (not related) is 

 educing a film with the hero a ranger. My 6115118 1 advice 

 was asked concerning the clothing - when done and thus not 

 tc be changed and I an invited to attend the first pro- 

 duction er.d censor it. 



lir. Roosevelt, Hr.Taft cjid Hr. Bryan have all been in. 

 'Teddy" showed much enthusiasm over forestry. 



I will trouble you with only a few lines more and these 

 .ines will be in regard to the interest displayed in forestry 

 by woman. She is on inquisitive character, you know, <md she 

 cones in here browsing arount for knowledge about her country 

 and its government. Quite often she drags lir. Husband along. 

 She meekly asks him what ray erosion sodel is. "'Oh, that's a 

 new way of irrigating* says hubby. But the inquisitive wife 

 holds back and gives me a questioning look. I let I-Ir.Husbr.nd 

 down as easy as I can, but the flc.sh of spirit in inqxiisitlve 

 wife's eye suggests to me that wonen who want the ballot are 

 going to vote as they think best, and my experience here, 

 meeting then from many states, convinces me that we want to 

 Interest women in forestry, then give them equal suffrage 

 and we will get more support for our work. The first is easy 



have given twelve v.'onen data for preparing papers to be 

 read before women's clubs and they are all intelligently in- 

 terested. The second well, I am not In politics. 



This is a short story of my sunner's work. The smell of 

 the pines , the smoke of the fire line , and ordinary forest 

 work has not been in iny lot. I have not caught a trout or 

 fried a bit of bacon over an open fire, but on two Sundays" 



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