Very few Parisians out of the thousands who went to sce, or tried to see, the free skating entertain. ment on the hig lake in the Bois de Boulogne on Sunday realized that one of the graceful feminine figure-skaters was an accomplished mountaineer. Probably they' would not have believed it had they been told, for the sportswoman in qu tion, Mile. Bouvier, looks, at the first' glance, quite frail, and turns the scales well below 9'st, She i nevertheless the first amateur scale Mont Blane this year. She undertook the ascent, in one of the coldest winters on' record, with Armand Charlet the well-known guide. They were eight hours on the way from the Grands Mulets to the top. The snow was frozen hard, they had to cut thousands of steps with th going was was more than half inclined to turn back, fearing that his companion would collapse, but Mille. Bouvier would not hear of giving up the attempt, and they reached. the top. where the wind literally froze their faces in places. After such fierce joys of conquest aver Nature, Mile. "Bouvier must have found skating in the Bois rather fat.
'Twenty other adventurous French-women are now taking part ina motor competition between Par and St. Raphael, on the Riviera, Several of them' drive open ears, and one has even dispensed with wind-seroon. In the almost arctic conditions which have prevailed in France for weeks, long-distance driving in open ears by women seems to support the theory that the habit of wearing very light clothings has made the daughters of Eve quite as able as men to bear exposure to the weather,
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