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Hon. Tom A. Marshall. 
out the West and also the soldiers in Yellow¬ 
stone Park and Alaska. 
It is only a few years that the ski sport has 
been known to any extent in the United States. 
This country offers great possibilities in the way 
of hills and otherwise suitable landscape for ski¬ 
ing in all the Northern States from coast to 
coast and where nearly every winter there is 
plenty of snow for this wonderful sport. New 
England, for instance, offers unlimited oppor¬ 
tunities for skiing. The students at Dartmouth 
College, Hanover, N. H., are great ski enthusi¬ 
asts, and many of these boys have become real 
experts on skis in the short time they have been 
at it. The Dartmouth Outing Club since its for¬ 
mation in 19 OQ has been making regular trips 
every winter from Hanover to Mount Moosi- 
lauke, a distance of some 40 miles. The party 
usually consists of from 30 to 40 students. Three 
years ago nearly all the boys with the exception 
of one or two used web snow shoes on this trip, 
but last winter every one of them used skis, and 
with far greater success. This goes to show the 
superiority of skis over the old fashioned web 
shoes. 
So many beginners in this country make the 
mistake of starting out with poor skis and bind¬ 
ings, they say to themselves, “I will get a cheap 
outfit now and a better one when I learn how to 
use them,” and the result is that a great many 
of them never learn how to ski. Skiing is too 
much of an art to be gone at in a hap-hazard 
manner, and the beginner is handicapped enough 
without further handicapping himself with infe¬ 
rior equipment. Do not get the idea, however, 
that skiing is for a few experts only. It is a 
9 port for everybody, boys and girls alike. It is 
something that any one can easily accomplish, 
providing the proper equipment is secured and 
the first trials are made in the proper way. 
First of all it is necessary to get a good pair 
of skis, one bearing the name of a reputable 
manufacturer who stands back of his goods with 
FOREST AND STREAM 
a guarantee that they are right, and the same 
thing also applies to bindings, a good pair of 
bindings or foot harness 'is just as necessary as 
the skis. 
People in this country have been led to 'be¬ 
lieve that a pair of simple toe straps is sufficient, 
and they even think it is dangerous to tie the ski 
to the foot. This is wrong. In the first place, it 
is impossible to do any skiing with just the toe 
straps, and, on the other hand, it is ten times 
more dangerous to go down a steep hill without 
having the skis securely fastened on than it is 
otherwise. If a person falls when the skis are 
not properly fastened on, he is apt to be thrown 
awkwardly out of the path against a tree, rock 
or some other obstruction, the skis will run away 
from him down the mountain side, and he will 
have a hard time finding them, but if the skis are 
properly and securely fastened to the feet, he 
will be anchored right where he falls, he will 
stay with the skis and the skis will stay with 
him, and it is a very rare occurrence that any 
one gets hurt that way. 
Until three or four years ago it was hard to 
secure good skis in this country; there were no 
properly made skis manufactured here, and all 
the high grade skis and bindings sold were im¬ 
ported from Norway. Today you can buy skis 
manufactured in this country which are fully 
equal and in many respects better than any of the 
VERY TRUE 
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As the cost of living goes merrily up, the 
price of life goes down. The proverbial 
ploughshares are refashioned into swords, 
the pruning hooks into spears, and the hand 
of fellowship wears a mailed mitt ! ’Tis 
sad ! And yet — between the covers of 
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the winter of our discontent is turned to 
glorious summer by an optimistic sun. 
Grim visaged War hath smoothed his 
wrinkled brow and shoots at Folly as it 
flies. Cheer up ! 
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