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The Daily record and the Dresden daily : 20.01.1909
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THE DAILY RECORD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1909. No. 896. AN IDEAL WINTER. THE DELIGHTS OF ALPINE SPORT. (From an occasional correspondent.) Kandersteg, January. “And the young gentlemen are in the Halps” quoth the pompous butler in Punch, in answer to an en quiry as to the whereabouts of his employer and family at Christmas time. Probably many an Eng lish butler could have made a similar remark this winter, for never has the fashion of spending the Christmas holidays amid the glorious scenery of the Swiss Alps found more devotees than this sea son. From Montreux to St. Moritz, Orindelwald to Montana come the same reports of hotels crowded with visitors who have come in hundreds, for the most part from England, to enjoy “le winter sport” in all its branches; skating, tobogganing, ski-ing, tailing, bob-sleighing, etc. To visit one of these sport resorts is to wish to make an annual pilgrimage thither. For myself, I had but vague ideas of what Switzerland was like in winter; much the same as summer, 1 supposed, only more so. Of a truth there was not much opportunity for gaining new impressions on the jour ney, for picturesque old Basle was already wrapped in a white mantle when we left it, and all day the big snow-flakes kept stealing down, blotting out ali view of the landscape we traversed. Twilight had come ere we exchanged the comparative comfort of a railway carriage for the chill welcome of a sleigh; for, muffled up to the eyes, a couple of hours’ drive in the darkness was necessary before we could reach Kandersteg, which nestles at the foot of the Oemmi pass beneath which yet another of the vast tunnels which honeycomb the Alps is boring its way southward. Our longish drive over the soft snow had not prepared us for the glories of our surroundings when we awoke next morning. We found ourselves at the entrance of a long spoon shaped valley, shut in on all sides by vast Alpine summits, all dazzling white. To the left tower above us the three peaks of the Bliimlis Alp, further on the Doldenhorn rears its mighty bulk into the hea vens and is faced by another range of snow-clad giants. The intense cold of the early morning disappears when the sun peeps over the crest of the Doldenhorn, and the various hotels pour out their inmates for the sports which are the be-all and end-all of exis tence in* Kandersteg. Three large ice-rinks are daily crowded with skaters of all degrees of skill, from the tyro whose head is always painfully askew as he tries to master the mysteries of the outside edge, to the expert who performs his rockers and brackets and loops with the ease of an old hand. One rink is reserved for the devotees of that curious pastime known as the “roaring game,” otherwise curling. No game, with the exception perhaps of chess, seems to demand such complete concentration on the part of the players as curling. The tense, drawn looks of the curler, as he poises his stone before sending it gliding along the icy floor, is a tilling to wonder at, as is the frenzied eagerness with which his comrades, in response to weird cries of “soop, soop!” ply their brooms in order to expedite the progress of this prince of rolling stones. Hard by is the toboggan run, from which all day one hears the monotonous long-drawn out cry of “Achtung!”—for your Swiss tobogganer, no mat ter what his or her age, would scorn to give notice of his approach in any other tongue but German, though rumour has it that the knowledge of the Teuton tongue stops at this one word “Achtung !” in the majority of cases—as the toboggans swish across, the road and hurtle down the slope beyond. The exact pleasure to be found in tobogganing is perhaps a trifle difficult to understand. Certainly the delight of rushing down the icy slope is counter balanced by the long climb up again, dragging the toboggan. But the game is evidently worth the candle, since many there be who spend laborious days in doing nothing but climbing up hills and rushing down again. Another even less attractive form of sport is that known as “tailing,” some twenty people on toboggans in two parallel lines being drawn by a sleigh to some more or less dis tant spot, where they have lunch; but there again the glorious wine-like air makes doing anything a pure joy. But the sport par excellence is ski-ing. No mat ter how cold the day, a few glides down a ski- run and a ski-er feels a delicious glow stealing over him and realises that life has still a joy for him. Snow is so delightfully soft to fall upon, and luckily so, for the novice on skis can have no idea how many different ways of falling there can be till he has tried the game. When one first dons the long, clumsy-looking footgear, one seems to have lost all control of one’s feet; the skis seem to want to box the compass, but in a very short time walking on the flat is accomplished with ease. To reach the summit of a hill is a matter of more dif ficulty; at first the tyro tries walking up in the ordinary way, but after several times falling flat in the snow, he realises that other methods must be adopted, and with a sort of crab-like, sideways, and appallingly awkward gait he reaches the top :: DRESDEN ;; |K Pension Cronheim, Strasse 47, corner of Mttnchner Strasse. Modern style. Garden. Excellent cuisine. Best references. Moderate terms. German conversation. rM/v1an/1 • Lady wishes to accompany young girl there. CngldnU. Address: O. 165, Daily Record otlice. nish Class Educational Some for in young ladies wishing to complete their studies. Thorough tuition German. Pleasant family life. Home comforts. Excellent Ref Frl. HOrichs, Uhland Strasse 41, I. Also German lessons, private and in classes, for day pupils. ^ , English Lady gives lessons in Skat. ai\H i. apply: ni SS ni n ty, Linden fiasse 20, p. n /| M/il / ATO by appointment to the Saxon Court, D* **• • Prager Strasse 32-34. Sport and Toy Warehouse. Large assoitml ol Tnhaggaas. Singes, Snrote, Hoftey slifts. American Dentist. Modern Dentistry in all its Branches. Straightening crooked teeth a Specialty. Dresden, Prager Strasse lO, 1. * Tel. 8514. Office hours 9-1 a.m. & 3-5 p. m. Flnumrc fnr Hltf vases ’ bal * dresses, ostrich feathers, heron fiUWclS IUI ndlS, feathers, stoles, palms, fruits, flower-papers, etc from H. Hesse, Scheffel Strasse 10-1*2. Briihl&Guttentag . Embroideries, Prager Str. 20. Jewelry, fij. , See Strasse IS. WORCESTER HOUSE SCHOOL DRESDEN, 19, Gutzkow Strasse, preparatory for Schools and Universities. Instruction in Classics, Mathematics, English, German, French, etc. in class or privately. ===== Boarders received. === llill.hum. ]. 1.Millnmw. Pension non Oerben old established house Reichs Strasse 26, I., II., III. Best situation. Highly recommended, comf. sunny rooms, best cuisine. Modern Note Paper. :: :: :: Typewriting, single copies and manifold copies. Visiting, table, & menu cards. Painting, drawing, and writ ing requisites. Printing in all its branches. Writing and Office furniture from Soennecken. Catalogues, gratis, at office of this paper. M.&R.Zocher Stationers and Printers. Extensive Bookbinders. Dresden, Annen Str. 9, corner Am See. Propr.: Rudolf Zocher. By appointment to H. M. :: the King of Saxony. :: RICHARD BORN First class ladies’ tailor. An der Kreuzkirche 2, II. SCHOOL FOR QIRLS. Classes in English, Arithmetic, jttathematics, german, french, and £atin. A small number of resident pupils taken. German and French resident governesses. Private instruction if desired. Miss Virgin, Schnorr Str, 80 (Villa). i G.m.b.H. Haoptcomptoir: Terrassenufer 23 Tel. 3022. MitteM ITTfTTT Every shop where English is spoken should take in and advertise in The Daily Record . Struve Strasse 5, I. of the hill. But his troubles are only beginning. It looks so easy, to put your feet together and glide down the smooth snow slope. But the beastly skis won’t keep parallel; one darts to the right, the other to the left; the novice tries to straighten them, and plump! there he is, his face buried in the snow, the skis performing daring contortions in the air. If he is wise, when after infinite struggling he has regained his upright position, he selects a short and easy slope to practise on, and then perhaps in a week or so he has sufficiently mastered the difficult balance to be able to come swinging down the longer run, with only one fall out of three attempts. The first time he really completes the descent and is still upright at its foot he wants to raise a flag, or scream, or in some equally ex uberant way to express his supreme delight. He is probably so satisfied with himself that next time he determines to turn at the foot of the hill as he sees the experts do with such consummate ease, but his is the. pride that goes before a fall, and such a fall! for never has he displayed such a bewildering confusion of skis and legs and arms and clouds of powdery snow as when he first tries turning. But as it is only rarely that any serious injury is caused, nothing daunted he toils up the hill again, after wiping the snow out of his eyes, and is soon rushing down unconscious of all save the exhilarating intoxication of ski-ing. When evening falls, and the hotels are a blaze of light, are there not dances, theatricals, concerts etc. to charm him? Though not a few are always ready to abjure these delights and to spend their even ings round the green-covered table, waiting in vain for those 100 aces which so seldom come. CHURCH SERVICES: DRESDEN. ALL SAINTS’ (ENGLISH) CHURCH, Wiener Strasse. Thursday, January 21st. 8.0 a.m. Holy Communion. Friday, January 22nd. 11.0 a.m. Matins and Litany. Chaplain: The Rev. C. A. Moore, M.A., B.C.L. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND (Presbyterian), Bernhard Strasse 2, at the corner of Bismarck and Winckelmann Strasse. Divine Service Sunday morning at 11, and evening at 6 o’clock. Communion on the third Sunday in January, March, and June. The Rev. T. H. Wright, Resident Minister. BRITISH AND AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES. THE BRITISH LEGATION: Wiener Strasse 38.—Minister Resident: Mansfeld de Cardonnel Findlay, Esq., C.B., C.M.G. THE BRITISH CONSULATE: Altmarkt 16.—British Consul: H. Palmie, Esq. THE AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL: Ammon Strasse 2, p American Consul-General: T. St. John Gaffney, Esq. Lflndenaii Strasse 9,1. Comfortable home. Excellent cooking. Moderate priceer PENSION BEHNCKE Dresden Museums, etc. Royal Picture Gallery. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 9—5. Sundays and Holidays 11—2 free entrance. Wednes days, Saturdays 9—8 A 0.50. Mondays 9—1 A 1.50. Royal Kupferstich Kabinett (Zwinger/. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 9—2. Sundays and Holidays 11—2 free entrance. Mondays closed. Royal Zoological and Anthropological-Ethnographical Museum (Zwinger). Sundays and Holidays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 11—1, Wednesdays and Saturdays 1—3 free entrance. Royal math.-phys. Salon (Zwinger). Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednes days, Thursdays and Fridays 9—12, Sundays and Holi days free entrance. Saturdays closed. Royal mineral, geol. and pr&hist. Museum (Zwinger). Mon days, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 10—12, Wednesdays •* and Saturdays 1—3, Sundays and Holidays 11—1 free entrance. Royal Collection of Porcelain (Johanneum II). Mondays, Tues days, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 9—2 A 0.50, Saturdays 9—2 A 1.50, Sundays and Holidays 11—2 A 0.25. Royal Collection of Sculpture in the Albertinum and An der Frauenkirche 12, I. (Cosel-Palais) In the week (except Saturdays) 9—3, Sundays and Holidays 11—2 free entrance. KSrner-Museum (Kdrner Strasse 7). In the week 9—2, Wednes days and Saturdays 9—1 and 2—5, Sundays and Holi days 11—2 ./6 0.50. Royal popular Library (Japan Palais). In the week 9—2 and 4—6 (except Saturdays) ftee entrance. Sundays and Holidays closed. SSchsischer Kunstverein (Briihlsche Terrasse). Picture exhibition German artists. Open daily 10—5, Sundays 1,1—2. Entrance fee A\.—; Sundays and Wednesdays A0.50. Galerie Ernst Arnold, Schloss Strasse. Perm. Picture exhibition. WEATHER FORECAST FOR TODAY of the Royal Saxon Meteorological Institute. South-westerly winds, more cloudy, but no heavy showers at first, nor any great change of temperature. Proprietors, Printer*, and Publishers: Record Verlag G,nub.H. in Dresden.—Responsible Editor: Willie Baumfelder.
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