The Matterhorn — Tough for Mountaineers to Climb

1907

Many mountains which long enjoyed a reputation of being absolutely unclimbable are now considered as almost ordinary excursions. The Matterhorn for many years repulsed men who were among the foremost mountaineers of the day. Professor Tyndall and Edward Whymper were foiled on more than a dozen occasions.

But on July 15, 1865, with Lord Francis Douglas, Hudson and Hadow, Mr. Whymper eventually reached the summit, and it was in descending that the fatal slip occurred which cost the lives of his three English companions as well as of Michel Croz, one of the most competent of Swiss guides.

Nowadays the peak is constantly ascended (with the help of guides) by tourists who have no pretensions to be mountaineers at all. — Dundee Advertiser.


A Hindoo Legend

A Hindoo account of the creation represents the deity as dividing himself in two and making of one half man, the other woman. The legend indicates, as many other things in the sacred books of India do, that the position of woman was once very different there from what it is today. In the laws of Manu it is said, "Where women are honored the gods rejoice, but where they are not honored all rites of worship are unacceptable."