Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-04-12

erland In winter in tho train
coming back. BY the time
you have settled down again at home
and SIT In your parlor to retail your
doings 10 your admiring and envious
friends. the disagreeables. II any there
have been. have faded into oblivion.
and the joys of even a bad Swiss win
ter. when contrasted with the rigors
OF the 'old-fashioned' English article.
strike one so forcibly that you can
only gasp out incoherences about
''the time of your llfe' and the wicked
waste OF never having gone before.
But in the train. when you perchance
can stlll see from the window the
peaks on which you have floated and
slid and tumbled. and with the pros
pect OF eight weary, dark hours jour
ney TO Paris) you can put things
straight In your mind. writes II. NJ
Morrison In Country Life. You are
not distracted by questions which
bring home TO you how sleepy and
casual your observation has been.
You are not shamed into excuses and
depreciations before your experienced
and expert friends. who have fled
the Swiss winter In contempt and
despair You are not compelled to
go into the conventional ecstasies
over tho Alpine sunset In the train
your opinion is as honest as no
Vices naive and rapturous opinion
can be. out of all your experiences.
the sensations OF one day shine out |
clear before all others My most abid- |
ing memory is OF a dazzling. brilliant |
day. OF three-mile ascent. skis In |
hand, from the village to untrodden
and silent slopes. wall so warming
that, the destination reached. | was
glad to rest and lunch in the shade.
recall the quaint and mysterious
footprlnts--afterwar identified as a
deer's-found near the lunch tree and
laziiy pondered over. glow at the
OF slope. FIVE hundred
Yards long. virgin snow to the skier.
had been only three DAYS skier.
md successful ascent was still be-
fond my dreams. | fell. and with re-
icf and surprise noted that did not
ulhi the prophecy of breaking my
oes. | stood on the brow OF the !
lone and pushed myself OF with the
,aton. after the uncouth style OF the
Iovice. For the briefest fraction OF ,
second | feared that my pose was
Unbalanced and that was fated 10 {
all The next. was given up to the I
oy OF swift motion. OF the sweeping
areer through the afr and sunlight. I
nth few out Of the sun into shadow |
nd suddenly grew cool and blind. 1
suppose everybody's introduction '
|, skiing Il very much the same. |
veryoue has 20 get over the inclina. n
en- to lift his feet and turn out his Z
res: most people have 60 fight down h
" awful feeling OF terror which at O
.cks them, not on their debut. but o
4 their second attempt. and not = n
w. | hope, have the sense (snd the O
nowiedge OF Freuchl to be able TO h
Ike IN good part the grave com h
ents OF the village children. These e
boys, to whom beautiful $,
ding seems second nature, can &
ach one much. although skiing il a
Il Of the soil. but recent importa- e
IA from Norway. by the way. fall
z n native. the best tutor Is an ST
nglish scboolboy. who. having no re- Is
rd for his own neck or yours. does C
/ iuster or fuss you. but rather inn 81
Ia you to the most unheard-o IT
ats. W
AS soon az one has attained the as
iallesr degree OF comfort and grace re
skis. one despises the Juggling sc
lich has hitherto seemed good gl
ough fun for anyone. Truth to tell 81
xeing Is all done on track. 10 es
lich one is tied. while at skiing one III
n at least pretend to be travelling. Of
rain and again You take the fifteen W,
nutes' walk up the track. dragging ey
ur huge behind you like child with th
toy. In order that you may whizz lie,
wn In twentieth part OF the time. III
70 absurdity Of this proceeding be- gil