, 1923-02-28
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

A.j WALh upon the city street.
~ For so hath fate it wrif;
@~ Thoughts far array and bitter-sweet
M Beguile Nth cheat my ciHing feet.
90 This, this the trail I hit:
The Fern Lake Trail. where virgin snow
Lies soft and deep the pines below.
Away from road and far from rail,
Snowshoe and ski to break the trail
CToboggan's creak. the squeak of thong.
A girls bright sash, n snatch of song,
A frost-nipped ear and quick snow rub,
The rest Mt noon for bite o. grub.
That winds and twists its way to make
From valley up to mountain lake,
With cabin ON Its frozen edge
And ski-run down Its steep-hung ledge
And campfire throwing yellow light
That turns to gold n world of white
A playground decked In brave array
lilo, no. Jack Frost We've come to play"
Sport In the snow-it's been the proper caper all
winter and the American people are still at It all
through the North-from New England to Rocky
Mountain and from Yosemite to Mount Rainier.
Students OF the times are commenting on It as n
new phase In the evolution of the nation. These
winter sports have been growing In popular favor
for several years. This winter. however, their
vogue Is such MS TO make sociologists sit up and
take notice.
Now there are winter sports and winter sports.
For example, on n January Sunday 5000 specta-
tors gathered NJ the Garfield park lagoon to see a
'h"uN"hu VI W"Te tHlchgo boys ana girls COmpete
In a series OF skating races. On the same Sunday
10000 spectators attended an international ski
tournament Mt Cary On Chicngo's outskirts.
That Is not whit ] mean by winter sports. What
] mean by winter sports. by sport In the snow. ia
the people turning ont to do the playing themselves.
not TO watch somebody else do the PLAYING. And
the people are doing II this year.
A generation or so ago the students of American
life were complaining that the American people did
not know how TO play. took no vacations nnd MI
TINT sort OF thing. Then the people did learn TO
play and did take vacations-in the sumner. The
next change was that n class of vacntionIsts wns
evolved who took vacations all the year round.
They played fl the North In the summer and fol.
lowed the warm weather South to Florlda In the
winter or West 10 California, or abroad, Now the
society visitors 10 the South have been Joined by
the Tin Can Tourists" who travel In divers
more than 1900 held the fourth annual convention
OF the Tin Can Tourists OF the World In De Soto
pnrk, Tnmpn. enriy In January of this ycnr.
The latest development OF this recently acouIred
appetite for summer and winter play on the part
Of the people Is sport In the snow. II has been
evolved since che war. Perhaps the red-bIoodcd
young felllows Who came bnck from "Over There"
In such fine p""s'cnl condition that they must Iet
or steam through real exercise have been I'm mar,
responsible. Anyway. the Idea has become wide
spread That coasting. tobogganlng. skiing. snow.
rhoeing. %skiiorlng hiking and nil the other winter
sports easily within the reach OF the average Amer.
lean In the North nre hrst-clnss fun. The comple-
mentnry Idea Is that n real tusslc with Jack Frost
In his native wilds Is more conducive to red blood
md rosy cheeks and n good appetite thnn less stren-
nous exercise under warmer skies nj home or
abroad. "A enthusiast might put II like this: