The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-27

rain, and afterward brilliant sunshine which brought with 1t a flock of mos quitoes. Funny happenings-all in
 one day-nest pas? I was told that the glacia mosquitoes are snow mos
 quitoes whose feet will not freeze. Perhaps that's one of the many jokes pulled on the tourists.
 ITO my mind, Chateau Lake Louise is the most beautiful spot in all the Canadian Rockies. Imagine a large,
 picturesque hotel facing a velvet
 green lawn, set about with brilliant plants. sunballs and dial-wide bor-
 dered with canary yellow, gold and white Iceland poppies-a tam bark l drive between the poppies and cir cular lake of the most unusual tur- quoise blue. On it's surface gaily painted canoes, and flanked by a background of majestic snow-clad mountains whose feet rest in aud close one end of the lake. The cel- l tral one has a glacier of ice and snow on its top 300 feet high. Higher up in the mountains are the Lakes In the Clouds. lakes Mirror and Agn ss.
 On the shores of the latter is a tea house to which there is a bridle tral. Of course, all these lakes are made from the melting snows and are, l therefore, icy cold and peculiarly l colored.
 There are no more the old time Hobbies in the big summer hotels. but instead. great spacious carpeted 1 and decorated living rooms, with | deep-cushioned lounges and chairs, l ferns and writing tables and fire places of glowing logs, for ladies and l gentlemen. At Chateau Lake Louise,
 there is one front window fully 20 | feet wide or more, made of a piece
 of plate glass, and framed like a pie
 ture in a wide frame of black and gold. Seats are placed in front of | this in order that guests may sit 1 and enjoy the picture of lake aad
 mountains to their hearts content. Glacier
 Glacier was our next destination,
 and it seemed remarkable to me that
 each of these three places could be
 so different. Here we were trans planted into a veritable Switzerla nd l for Glacier is gem of mountain | beauty set among vistas of dark | spruce and pointed frs, and white | cascades. from which rise snow w-clad l mountains nine and ten thousand l feet high, and waterfalls leap down
 through lodges in the rocks. Here
 are the Swiss Peaks and the Snowy Hermit range, and here. too. is the great Illecillenet Glacier, which most l of us climbed. and stood under the cave-like mouth of ice and snow in
 July.
 1 Leaving the mountain resorts, we l journeyed on through exquisite scenery to Vancouver. British Colum- bia, which to me is one of the most l interesting cities of our itinerary 1 Perhaps 1t was because I like his 1 toric cities, and Vancouver is teem- ! ing with history. It has a splendid ! harbor. with rugged picturesque 1 coast facing a beautiful range of
 mountains that are tipped with snow
 the year round. It has a population | of 175,000. It does vast ship
 building and lumber business on ac- | count of the great surrounding for | ests of Big Trees giant cedars and | Douglas frs of amazing size and age; and has vast oriental business | also The streets are wide and clean,
 with delightful stores. In the center | of the town is the most beautiful | statue to the boys who gave their i, lives in France l have ever seen. A 1 colossal statue of an angel carrying upward in her arms the bronze figure | of the famous Princess steamers here for Victoria. which Is a typical English city, quiet and old, with out lying estates. some castles and lord
 or two to finish the effect. I have never seen more beautiful roses tha n
 saw in Victoria. The well-cul | hedges. too, of waxy green holly with
 tbeir red berries were much admired as well as the camphor trees. From here we took the steamer again for
 Seattle. at which place we had t. have our baggage searched at United
 States custom house. Uncle Sam did that to us. John Bull let us come