The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-12

..o Editor
LOS ANGELES. CaI.-ua.r In.
This might more appropua,e,v D.,
entitled advice to Tourists.p AN, .
is certainly from n tourist who No.
suffered. The Lord may have ma.
the ocean to swim in, the liver, n
fish in, the golf course for busy rr,aN
but he never intended his moyn,,,,,
to be climbed. Too late did wo rs,
lie this sad fact, and never win ".
undertake such a liberty with Nom,
Wilson again.
No one can make the trip and looy
the same, and now on tho second
day after my experience ] am con.
vinced that no one can feel The sam.
again.
We went up in the prescribed sty,s
pants, sweater, light coat. lunch
and with nice men TO carry thing,
the sun shining and in fact. every.
thing set for a happy day
A mountain out here tends stri,ry
to business and starts right in Rolrv
up. There is no nice, easy. gradp,i
rise TO get you acclimated. ym
simply start on a long climb. w,
took the trail that winds round and
round the mountain I'm its scrpcntirs
way and is about six feet wide.
AftnR pniAs- a
gin to perspire and in another SO
feet It's Just a plain sweat. First tho
coat comes off, then the hat and
then-Oh, no! It would Yer do olss
the sweater he thrown overheard
When you can't possibly move any
further you rest and then freeze a
bit. Then you put back all tbls
clothing and start upward again. go
until you can't move another incb
get boiling hot, remove all reuoy.
ables and start another freeze. Sor-
or like the house that Jack built
only you never add any more TO the
story.
1t is a safe bet that none or these
advertising men who write reams Of
the joys OF mountain climbing eyer
risk their lives up there where tb,ro
Is chance OF meeting n disiIu.
stoned tourist. His chances for Ufe
would he about on par with Car.
pentier's chance for tho belt last
summer.
But on and on YOU 20 until after
three and one-half miles YOU fan
into the halfway house and mug
or coffee. 1t is no place to rest.
however-too much ja2, music and
dancing when you are only longing
for n downy bed in a convent or
some other equally silent place.
From the halfway house il is
only four miles to the top. and ho.
cause no one in the large party
wanted TO be called poor sport, no
one had the backbone TO say he
wouldn't go. Never call anyone q
poor sport again, never. They may
be suffering from palpitating heart
or rheumatic knees like We were.
The last half Of the trail is ~~+~g
that you begin TO wonder who made
tho survey and why 1t is called the
halfway house.
zWlth fast deserving nerve We went
until we finally ran Cpardon the er.
is much betcr) into
rain and We're forced 10 turn back
Am down on the man who discovered
the law of gravity. We proved &c
out all right, and it Is a ciuch that
whatever goes up must come down
We started unclimbing that large
and exaggerated hill. II takes about
half an hour less time 10 get down
than 1t does to go up and YOU have
the pleasure OF using up the last set
of muscles. When the bottom was
finally reached We did not have
enough left to turn around and NciA
the burned old mountain, az we had
been planning 10 do all the way
back.
Have about recovered from all the
queer pains and am ready 10 do
something else exciting. There i'
always something else LETT 90 do out
here, and no one can ever got weary
OF the place.