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us to turn back, and we reached camp in 

 a soaking condition. 



The rain continued intermittently, but 

 during the kills we managed to cook 

 supper and dry our clothes somewhat. 

 Heavy showers battered the tent in the 

 night, giving a severe test to its water- 

 proofing. This might have been better, 

 but we felt grateful that only a fine mist 

 penetrated. 



In the morning, under lowering skies, 

 two of the party ascended the glacier 

 occupying the notch east of camp and 

 reached a knob near the arete joining 

 Grand Mountain and Mount Sugarloaf. 

 From this they obtained unobstructed 

 views throughout the upper reaches of 

 the valley. Everywhere steep rocky walls 

 and jagged cliffs fringed with glaciers 

 met the eye. making it apparent that tlu 

 camp was not favorably situated for any 

 ascents in its vicinity. 



Rain again prevented our accomplish- 

 ing anything the following day, and. as 

 indications promised a storm of several 

 days' duration at least, it seemed useless 

 to remain longer, especially as our food 

 supply was insufficient to allow us to 

 move down the vallev to a more favor- 

 able spot. Accordingly we started back 



on the fourth day over the same route, 

 arriving at our camp on the Uishops 

 Range at 9 : 30 p. m. in a howling snow- 

 storm. A few days later we ended our 

 outing by returning to Glacier. 



Our ex])eriences in the upper portions 

 of the valley support those of VV. S. 

 Drewry and P. A. Carson,* both of the 

 Dominion Land Survey, who on different 

 occasions penetrated the valley from its 

 mouth with a view to locating a survey 

 station in the Battle Range. They found 

 the going as bad as possible, and the 

 former was "confronted by sheer preci- 

 pices of rock and ice at every attempt" 

 to make an ascent. 



There is little doubt but that the Rattle 

 Range on this side is one of the most 

 difficult in the Sclkirks from the climb- 

 er's point of view. The valley is a low 

 one, which means a long pull to timber 

 line and a bivouac there before snow and 

 ice work commences. Conditions ought 

 to be more favorable on the south side 

 of the range, but nevertheless the sharp 

 aiguilles and threatening towers will 

 doubtless offer most interesting prob- 

 lems to an attempt from that direction. 



* Annual Reports of Department of Interior, 

 Canada, for 1892 and 1907. 



WHERE WOMEN VOTE 



By Baroness Alletta Korff 



IN FINLAND for nearly three years 

 women have been members of Par- 

 liament, and for the first time in 

 history have "taken their places in a legis- 

 lative assembly side by side with men. 

 elected bv universal manhood and 

 womanhood suffrage." 



The law granting the franchise to 

 women came into effect on the first of 

 October. 1906. so that now it is possible 

 to estimate, in some degree at least, the 

 value of the work that the women have 

 done and the effect that woman suffrage 

 has had upon the country at large. 



Although at the time the suffrage was 



granted it seemed to people outside Fin- 

 land radical and even revolutionary, in 

 Finland itself the change was looked 

 upon merely as an inevitable step in the 

 natural process of the j)olitical and social 

 evolution of the country, and was re- 

 ceived without any signs of excitement 

 whatever. 



It is true that in soiue ways conditions 

 in Finland have been peculiarly favorable 

 to the advancement of woman's rights, 

 but there have been also certain difficul- 

 ties which do not exist in other countries, 

 and which made the idea of woman 

 suffrage seem an almost chimerical one 



