Jottings About Town

NZ Truth, Issue 1208, 24 January 1929, Page 11

Jottings About Town

Dancing Toes \ TtfOTICED, recently, a portrait of that ! *™ very attractive young Wellingtonian, Miss Alison JKirkcaldie, all j dressed up with skis and snow-suit m i preparation for a. visLt to "The Her- ] mitage," Mount Cook. j The thrill of the flying leap, which looks so perilous when one doesn't know how : it's done., has certainly raught on m New Zealand, and many kind friends- declare that we have an unrivalled ski -ing ground 'way up on Mount .Cook; ' ; But the skis themselves took a long j time tovhit the fancy of the general public. Lord Frederic Hamilton, author of "The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday," 'tells how, when he tried to introduce, them from Russia to Canada, he became a target for universal derision and small boys' apple-cores, everyone declaring^ that the old-fashioned, webfooted' snowshoe was far better. " . . . .• . I