Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-02
A DIFFICULT FEAT.
Party of Young Women Ascend Arapa
hoe Peak.

hoe Peak.
Miss Carolyn Moss, who formerly
resided in this city and was teacher
in the Ottumwa high school recently
performed the feat of ascending Arap-
ahoe peak at Denver, in company with
a party of young women friends, with
out the assistance OF male escort The
Denver Post OF recent date tells of
the ascension as follows:
Walt Whitman's buoyant prophecy
for America of fierce athletic girls
who know how to swim. row, ride. ad-
vance, retreat, defend themselves "
daughters fit for these states is be-
ing realized here in the great. spread
ing, untamed west in the most deli
cious femlninity, as is Immediately in
stanced in the daring, clever ascan-
scion Of Arapahoe peak made by Miss
Carolyn Moss and a party Of girl
friends. Whoever sees Miss Moss in
her delightful home at 1870 Williams
street, graceful, queenly, deliciously
perfect in self-poise and domesticity.
would not dream that she scorned the
height of mountains and the hardships,
dangers and difficulties of scaling the
loftiest peaks. Still for all her wo-
mans daintiness there are the deep
positive blue eyes to take into account
and mass of bronze hair suggesting
the beauty and the strength of Egypts
Cleopatra.
Would Have Braved a Cow.
ITO begin with, she wasn't afraid
Had her party met COW, for instance
they would not have surrendered the
trail. For that matter, one never
takes to the bush above timber line
She was not afraid of snakes. They
are not nice creatures to imagine, and
were probably never considered Mice?
Oh, well, mice are very different. Be
sides, they do not grow to any appre-
ciable degree on Arapahoe peak. The
nest Objectionable of the breed are
probably not indigenous to peaks at
all
Seriously, the best proof of Miss
Moss fearlessness is that she didn't
choose to handicap her expedition
with masculine chaperonage. AS for
men, there are only two classes. Those
who make love are nuisances and
those who do not are Doors. For ac-
tual service men are about as much
use as pet poodles. Except as sea-
side amusement men are inconsequent
nondescripts. Decidedly they were
not necessary to Miss Moss and her
charming party.
ZIP the rugged ascent the pretty
pilp inns went, with no thought OF the
ever steepening brown trail zigzagging
its way through thousands of altitudin-
Gus feet toward the high thin sky no
bluer than their charming leaders
bonnie blue eyes. When the air be-
came so thin one could hardly breathe
enough of it they laughed pretty sill
very laughs that set the birds to won
dering and to warblng bird note an
! swers.
Proud as Coneuerors.
| when they rounded some particu,
larry aggravating jut or crag they
stamped their pretty feet on its great
brown surface with the pride of those
who conquer. Their good spirits new
er tagged. All the hours they went
laughing and singing toward the noun
tain's misty top-up and up, near
enough to throw audacious perfumed
kisses to the man in the moon were
he there to catch them
"Once established on the peaks last
summit they looked down on the grow
cling world beneath them-the sordid
| little world with its men and mice
looked down in laughing. girlish scorn
while they enjoyed refreshing return
inspiring lunch.
They laugh now and say it. was
perfectly lovely but their friends
know very well it was perfectly diff
cult"