Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-19

spirit, the strength of character, the
unconquerable courage of Mrs Marie
Riedeselle. who has spent the greater
part of the last twelve years in the
mining camps of the frozen, inhospit-
able north. Not so much in search OF
the precious metal which rules this
money world, but in order to be OF
assistance to the suffering, to alleviate
the pains of the wounded, to give new
hope to the down-hearted whom bit
ter fate left stranded in the cold and
dreary land Of the midnight sun. Mrs.
Riedeselle is an osteopathic physician
and is we'll versed in all methods of
natural healing. She is a vegetarian,
living on but one meal a day, consist
ing mainly of dried fruits and nuts
and such fresh fruits as she is able
to obtain.
Ten years ago she opened the first
sanitarium in Dawson City, where she
gave such hygienic treatments, oste-
opathy, massage, steam baths, etc.
She had arrived there in the early days
of the Klondike stampede The trip
from New York city to Dawson was
one of almost incredible hardships and
privations, enough to stagger the heart
of the strongest man. Yet this brave
little woman faced al the perilS of the
long and arduous trip from Skagway
and White Horse Falls down the
treacherous Yukon and safely arrived
in Dawson in the best of health ana
spirits After she had been two years
in the Klondike Mrs. Riedeselle went
to Nome, crossing Alaska by way or
the Yukon river. Five years she spent
at the shores of the Bering sea, with
one short intermisSon when she visit
ed the Worlds Fair in st. Louis in 1904.
Having heard so much of the glor-
ious fairyland known as Southern Call-
fornia Mrs. Riedeselle decided to go
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rest and recreation and to prepare for
another expedition to the northland,
which had become almost her home.
She intuitively felt that the riches OF
Alaska had hardly been tapped and
the greatest discoveries of gold had
yet to be made.
The wanderers to the beautiful Big
Santa Anita canyon in the foothills OF
the Sierra Madre mountains will re-
member at it's lower end little palm
thatched cottage. II is nestled De-
tween the sycamores at the foot of the
almost vertical walls of the hills, bor-
dering the creek with its never-falling
crystal clear water. There the her
mitress," as the lady was called, lived
for three years with her piano and
books in solitude, undergoing several
long fasts from thirty to fifty days to
purify and strengthen her body.
In the early summer of 1909 tine
herm1treSS 1elL tndt She Hau dSoih "
make a change and once more she
sailed to the land of the midnight sun.
At Nome she enjoyed the short north
ern summer when the news or rich
discoveries of gold at the head waters
of the Innoko river reached the mining
camps at the shores of the Bering sea.
At once a stampede began and soon
Nome was a deserted place. Mrs. Rfe-
deselle followed the exodus ana
reached Ilnalaklik across the Norton
sound in a little gasoline launch after
a most perilous voyage of nine days
The overland trip to Innoko, the pres
ent postoffice station in the district,
about $50 miles inland, was again one
of great hardships. She arrived there
early in December last year.
"Sweet are the uses of adversely"
says our female philosopher, IF we
only know how to cope with them.
Being assured of the fact we derive
the greatest satisfaction and strength
from suffering and instead of rebelling,
shrinking against it, we love it, en-
brace it, meet it, be at onement-as 1t
were-with it. If we are where we
can do that-well, only those can un-
derstand me. The perpetual beatitude
which we derive from overcoming OBJ
stacles is the substance. The worldly
success is but the shadow"
In recent letter Mrs. Riedeselle
writes: "It is wonderful how every
thing keeps here without decaying;
and l believe that 1t preserves people
in the same way. Now 1 feel cold all
the time, but tits not debilitating but
invigorating and from being used to
it and knowing that it does me more
good than harm I really enjoy 1T. II