Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-02-16
ART OF N o sn~tiMG.
No Man Is Born tn ia, aud Only Faithful
Practice Makes Perfect.

No Man Is Born tn ii, and Only Faithful
Practice Makes Perfect.
When Capt. Glenn OF or army was
sent with II detachment of soldiers IT,
carry IL seine extensive explorations
in Alaska last Year he found that SNOW
shoes would have IL" play an important
part in tile work. An incident occurred
III day that proved 10 him it WAS high
time to break in all the mnn who had
not learned the art of s,luwslloc travel
The spectacle lie and his party witucs-
Sel WIS amusing la all except the uli-
fortunate person who supplied the fun
1t was before the party had startc.
inland. The hospital steward wHs III.
St,',lctcd to- cross :, certain glaZicr and
report to Lieut.. l.carlard. III WAS nercs
SarN to wear SHOW shoes. ~; the Wealth.
or WAS not cold enough to form !, crust
that would bear the weight of II .niai.
So lie put OH tile logs. and Capt. Glenn
AYERS in his report. which The Wal
Department has Just published. TIA, mt
one was ever serll WHO WIS so utterly
helpless with such foo.grar attached tc
him as tbs hospital steward.
He persisted in sticking The toe Of li>
shoes into the aid this error krla
him i'll trouble. Then about every t,iiri
pace lie would step OH one shoe with The
other and keel hcadirng over into tn
SNOW. In this situalio:i he WIS :: mr.c
mass of hclplcsSloss. ana. do what Tx
might. lie couldn't arise until somebody
camc and boosted him 10 his feet. III
took him eight hours To travel tive
miles. and before he got bacl, TO calnl
he had given ul snow shocing. III,
ann in waddliilgrtlmnugll the sno III
to his hips and dragging his shoes.
This convinced the captaintlat ii WAS
absolutely necessary for every member
of the detachment io know how to use
snow shoes. and so tile cdict went forth
that the steward and every other man
knowledge should use Siiow shoes for ii
walk Of five miles every day til! all
were proficient.
All of which calls tn mind that in ihl
very winter that John Milton entered
Cambridge University. 1923. there was
II tremendous fall of snow in England.
the like OF which had not been sccu by
the oldest inhabitants. and histery lc.
cords that it KEPT deep and soft For
weeks. The Englisl, had heard of snow
shooting in Norway and the arctic IL.
yionS. and 81 some of them. who had IT,
get about somehow. took to makin.
snow shoes. and learned the guile that
was in them. \. modern novelist, whe
tells Il story Of that period. has his here
! describe his experience with this foot.
wear:
II built myself a pair OF strong and
light Snow shoes. framed with ash and
ribbed of Witty. With half-tanned calf
skin stretched across. and an inner sole
TO support my feet. AT first I could not
walk at nil, but flo,in,lercd about most
%piteoMsly. catching IL Shoe in the
other. and both OF them in the snow.
drifts. To the great amusement of the
girls who wcln. come to look ut me.
But after awhile grew more expert
and crossed the farm yard and came
back again 0llnugl TURNING was the
worst thing of all, without so much us
falling once
All arctic explorers have testified that
snow slloeing Is not easy To learn. ami
TINT it is still more difficult to maste,
the - nlan skL-New York Sun.