Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1875 — Stout English Girls. [ARTICLE]

Stout English Girls.

A correspondent of the Hartford Times, writing from a Swiss inn, says: “ A few days ago just at dusk, after a cold rain had set in, two English girls and their handsome, gray-haired father arrived. They were cola and damp, and the hotel was cold and damp, and as we sat by emblazing fire and heard them go intothelr cold rooms we pitied them so much that we opened our door and invited them to share our warmth and comfort—so they came in and we chatted together all the evening. Those two bright, fresh-look-ing girls sat calmly in their chairs and told us they had crossed from Meiringen to the Rhone Glacier over the Grimsel on foot the day before p through a foot o snow—had walked nine miles down the ‘valley that morning, and then had climbed up all the way from Viesch to the hotel on foot in the rain that afternoon. We looked at them aghast and murmured ‘ Tired ?’ ‘ O no,’ they briskly chorused; and indeed they did look most revoltingly fresh and pretty. When we appeared in the morning, father (who always comes in to breakfast from out of doors with a blast of cold air very much as if he had slept on the’near-

e»t glacier) announced that ‘ those En - glisn girls started to walk up to the sum* mit of the Eggischhorn' two hours ago and are coming back in time to cross the Aletach Glacier to go to the Belle Alp for the night!’ Before long they came in, brisk and rosy as usual: ‘Oh, no! not tired at all f—and without waiting for anything more than a lunch were off again. We groaned in spirit as we’saw them disappear around a promontory.”