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...four miles upstream to one of the highest lakes. We left the stock at the lake, to feed on the meadow, and, following the trail on foot to 12,000 feet, entered the "chimney"a narrow cleft in the granite, some 150 feet wide, which extends straight up the slope for 1,000 or so feet and enables one to get through the cliffs to the upper final slope of the crest, some distance south of the summit...
...Pittsfield to smart Lenox, Mass., cannot have failed to learn that the considerable eminence known as South Mountain, by which they must pass, is mostly Mrs. Coolidge's property; that the spacious house on its summit is hers. The smaller white stone building on the mountain's slope is where, seven years ago, she housed the Festival Quartet of South Mountain, when she determined, out of an insatiable craving and a comfortable pocketbook, to have chamber music and have it in a proper setting. Her benefactions to music were already many. There are prizes of her giving from...
Descending the grand terraced walls of the Italian slope, Prince Chichibu and his party escaped the addition of a death toll to the list of 21 brave Alpinists who have perished on the Matterhorn. Next day, indefatigable, he scrambled up the Rothorn (13,855 ft.) in seven hours. "My muscles," he said on again reaching Zermatt, "have become like whipcord...
...beauty Of an old, old woman in a black mantilla; Of an old, old woman with unutterable wisdom Behind her wordless reticence; who lights a candle In token of prayer before a faded picture of the Madonna. Or it is humble beauty- A flock of goats tumbling down a slope At twilight; or a silent beauty Of wine-dark shadows shed on purple hills...
...east has no Ralph Hills this year to head off the Pacific slope, but Houser of Southern California, the Olympic champion, and Gerkin of California probably will know they have been in battle before emerging from the week-end competition. Houser is a great little man. He is one of the three wonderful small men, and by small men I mean less than 190 pounds, who have made history in the I. C. A. A. A. A. shot putting competition. The others are Beattle of Columbia and B. F. Whitney of Dartmouth, whose places carried them to the crest before...