Stout English Girls

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 8, 1875

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 cold and damp, and the hotel was cold and damp, and as we sat by our blazing fire and heard them go into their 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-looking 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, through a foot of 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?’ ‘Oh, no,’ they briskly chorused; and indeed they did look most provokingly 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 nearest glacier) announced that ‘those English girls started to walk up to the summit of the Eggishorn two hours ago and are coming back in time to cross the Aletsch Glacier to go to the Bel Alp for the night!’ Before long they came in, brisk and rosy as usual: ‘Oh, no! not tired at all!’—and without waiting for anything more than a lunch were off again. We groaned in spirit as we saw them disappear around the promontory.”