The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-01
FadS Of the New York Girl
(SHE STARTS A CLUB FOR !
CANADIAN SPORTS
CAN ADIAN SPOR

The New York girl has ideas about winter
sports. She got them up In Canada last
winter, where she skated and rode the
ice hills and snowshoed through the great
northern forests by moonlight.
She doesn't think skating in the Park
or coasting on bock-long hill sufficiently
exhilarating as a substitute. so she has
organized a club for Canadian sports. II
the prophecies about the old fashioned
winter come true she will toboggan on
an ice coated slope long, steep and swift,
and will snowshoe over meadows about
Westchester and Long Island and through
the woods about Tuxedo. She will have
skating oarnivals in fancy dress and sail
skating races in strictly simple costume,
and everywhere, in town or country the
hosts of winter frost, ice and snow will
be called TO her aid in carrying out her new
schemes Of entertainment.
Already a long glittering toboggan
slide stretches down one of the most pre-
cipitous hills at Tuxedo, and by the middle
Of January, wherever there are winter
colonies and open house for merry making,
there you will see an ice coated hill and
groups Of the Canadian club members IN
Indian blanket slits and bright colored,
long knitted toques.
II is extremely smart 10 have the entire
outfit imported from the land Of toboggans
and snowshoes. Everything must be
Indian made. old or new. To snowshoe
with machine made shoes or to mount
toSoggan in a fur coat and a hat that has
seen the ignominy Of a milliner's shop is
simply to court unpopularity from the
start.
There is a real romance about the wearing
Of shoes that have been curved to beauty
lines 10 suit the trained eye of the craftsman
who knows the value Of every varying
inch OF length or width for swiftness and
strength who bends the wood and threads
the parfesh as a woman of fashion does
tiny frock with rare needle work
In any case these shoes are smart. and
what Is of interest but of less importance
they are cheaper than the manufactured
article. The New York girl paid lust $3.50
for pair of strong, perfectly proPortoned
Micmac snowshoes which she brought back
last winter.
The moccasins which she wears with them
for who 40 inartistic as TO wear mere boots
with snowshoes? she bought for is cents,
and they are the real Indian snowshoeing
moccasins. of moose skin with the hair
inside and dressed outside TO a condition
of absolute waterprooiness.
Then there are leggngs of deerskin,
dressed smooth on both sides to BE- wound on.
like the British military puttees, so that
they leave freedom Of action for n long
tramp. yet will not slip and loosen about the
ankles These are worn over silk stock
ings, lest there should be dance after the
toboggan party and late supper.
Often the huge, shapeless blanket coat,
usually red striped with hlack-beloved
color scheme of the young Indian squaw-
Is worn over some dainty short frock of
silky stun that * ready with the wave
Of a fairy wand in the dress ing room for
the gayest and prettiest Of dinner dances.
But for rough snowshoeing. through woods
or over rorIh country, the wise plan is
short pedestrian skirt Of stout stuff worn
with a blouse or sweater and loose under
wear. Indeed for expert snowshoes,
where the tramp becomes a cross country
run. often for prizes simple short nde-
structihle clothing Is a necessity.
A charming. romantic, exhiarating sport
i the game OF hare and hounds through
the moonlight over cleaning white mead
ows But no amateur may try this pastiue
II takes a fine set Of MUSCLES in good pra-
tice a. well a. much experience with wob-
footed travel to Toe IN at the death al a snow
shoe run straight as the CROW HES
No NUTS are permitted, but long nous
quctaire mitten7 that keep winter winds
from finding access TO the loose wide sleeve
and for headgear always the long, silk cap
that pll- clown over the ears and faunts
a silk tassel for every zephyr
And after the real run for the brush
which may to any sort Of pretty or fan
tastc prize. with four smaller ones for
the pads-there is seldom a dance. but
supper Of the old country Canadian sort
and then a huge open fire with coffee and
nuts to roast and apples 10 bake in the
ashes. and stories, gay or ghoetly
Just the tramping frocks are worn for
supper where there is no dance, though