The Holly chieftain., 1923-02-22
sy JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

M, IHotghtS Jar dUdy ana 0uter-SUeet
M Begnile NTH cheat my ,0illing feet.
~ This, this the trail / 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
<Toboggan's creak, the squeak of thong.
A girls bright sash, a snatch of song,
frost-npped ear and quick snow rub,
The rest at 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 sktrun down Its steep-hung ledge
And campfire throwing yellow light
That turns to gold a world of white
playground decked In brave array
Ho, 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 1t as a
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 as to make soctologists sit up and
take notice.
Now there are winter sports and winter sports
For example, on January Sunday 45 900 specta.
tors gathered at the Garfield park lagoon to see a
thousahd or more Chicago boys and girls compete
In series of skating races. On the same Sunday
10000 spectators attended an International ak,
tournament at Cary on Chicago's outskirts.
fhnt is not what mean by winter sports What
mean by winter sports. by sport In the snow ia
the people turning out to do the playing themselves
not to watch somebody else do the playing And
the people are doing 1t this year.
generation or so ago the students of American
life were complaining that the American people did
GOT know how to play, took no vacations and nil
that sort of thing. Then the people did learn TO
play and did take vaeations-ln the summer The
next change that a class of yacatIonista ,yas
evolved who took vacations all the year round
They played In the North in the summer and fol-
lowed the warm weather South to Florida in the
winter or West to California, or abroad Now the
society visitors to the South have been Joined by
the "rin Can Tourists" who travel In fllyyers~
tnore than 5000 held the fourth annual convention
of the Tin Can Tourists of the World in De Soto
park, Tampa, early In January of this year.
The latest development OF this recently acquired
appetite for summer and winter play on the part
of the people is sport In the snow 1t has been
evolved since the war. Perhaps the red.blooded
young fellows who came back from "oyer There"
In such fine physical condition that they must let
off steam through real exercise have been in nart
responsible Anyway. the idea has become Wide.
spread that coasting. tobogganng. skiing, snow.
Shoeing. skijorlng hiking and all the other winter
sports easily within the reach OF the average Amer
lean In the North are frst-class fun. The compe.
mentary idea Is that real tussle with Jack Frost
In his native wilds is more conducive to red blood
and rosy cheeks and good appetite than less siren.
uons exercise under warmer skies at home or
abroad An enthusiast might put 1t like this: