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National Geographic : 1925 May
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606 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE .S0 Occasionally in large . parties, but more often •., r in couples or alone, U.- everyone is skiing. No Girls in flamboyant sports costumes, men • = in sweaters and knick S- erbockers -all push along. o You may follow one crowd to a hill, where <a" you can witness mar velous and hair-rais ing jumps, and equally thrilling falls, as some •.. unhappy individual S° turns over and over V -E< w ¢A and, if he does not ; Mconclude his journey ., by forcible contact S:.< a3 with tree or rock, finally appears upright again on the two wooden runners. L. Probably he will re peat the experiment t og until he meets with -,: success; for skiing is a ' o a serious sport, not to Sbe taken frivolously; o ! ibut always demanding o a full measure of de S 0,- votion from its dis S-a" ciple. \Vhat baseball - o- is to America, skiing S is to Finland. 'a This is not, of a course, the only win S°, oter sport, although the dominant one. There ". is skating on the large " . public rinks in the 3 harbor, and there are spirited ice-hockey - contests. Even auto , mobile races are S. - staged on the ice, and S3S these, it may be re °, . marked, are as pro S ductive of thrills as ° the most blase devotee , of sport could desire. o In the evening the 3 restaurants, with -o dancing, the opera and S the movies all draw
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