Show l throUgh g hf awful solitude hat t vast white silent landhere landhere landre land- land here here re for half a hundred miles only lY crag piled on crag and andon on rocky racky pinnacle and ev- ev In the eternal ice and snow e t the e only things that moved the dog whimpered and los lose to the rough wall all of the thease thee e whose ase base hase they skirted n Intuition quick as th than the than an shot out aut a hand and the woman wom woman n. n There was a thin he heair air air a rising of snow an instant the sP spot t where the thes I s feet had been planted was dr The man had bad saved her snow slide Im there ere e and then it may be I rn the romance remance this story es ong the Avalanches lance cc to your mind is ds a mat- mat and kittenish charm of ot ott I l t l attractiveness and feminine i 1 ten read no further For Fer this mucus I grownup romance The Theof of it admits that she is forty- forty t ir old The hero is a a. few lder Ider stilt still And there is no none i 1 scene ene ne in their story no sub sub- rances ces and no o soft sweet Th r. r love meeting took place I w Ii erness within sound of lee lee Iceland and crashing avalanches i snowdrifts with death close clos And d they had come from I o 0 the earth to stand to to- 4 t c cRo t. t 1 f J rt iL tI I I i 1 f t. t 11 e t Ro Romance man Ce CeH H of L SEVENTH MAN Was s the Middle Aged Hero of a au u Climbing Lain Marathon and Pi- Pi fd IJ the Intrepid Lady to the in McCarthy Alaska Foot Fool Summit Kuly JulY 8 and will permanente permanent permanent- o of f Mt Mi Blackburn Black Black- e there is really much more F than an it sounds The place burn burn Now Now 0 W midst dst of Alaska's mighty Comes the of the gods beneath the Ii Happy appy Climax Cli 11 K of towering Mount l Black Black- hither more adventurers have max After Afler P r h-r 1 1 lan Ian u ever ver T have returned Mc Me Four L' L LIan Unia Unsuspecting Un Un- J Is ia a mining town five miles t te suspecting e terminus terminus of the Copper River Hirer la fat t J the site of the Years i J Jaous 10 S Bonanza copper mine M k y sent scent nt of Mount Blackburn was 7 yM is ed under conditions unlike rr bra F I fr more arduous than those of f fp t p no e and Mont Mont z Miss Keen had previous previous- I I her credit It took itt t t took nearly nearly L ftp to conquer the Al Alaskan peak red six days to raise a ton of a iQ 0 feet in traversing thirty thirty- i es Then they were ware only at r rt t of Mount Blackburn and andas S' S t l t tas as nothing but treacherous Ramp camp on When after Ways days the summit was reached t L Li Keen lamp and Mr Handy alone i 1 the satisfaction of l knowin knowing to mg fc it expedition was the first to i r the on-the swept avalanche-swept south- south of the mountain and the l Alaskan ascent ini in fn i woman man had taken part f e elance lance of the Seventh Man i is s a May day back in 1912 We s seemed e e m e d like atoms before beon be be- on the dizzy slopes of Mount Y CL fore these impregnable im im- pregnable fa fort fortresses that most inaccessible or at orian as we ian an n peaks three things prepared to pit our human littleness little little- I a woman oman and a dog were ere erea t ness against the pitiless forces of a nature We succeeded ceded be m cause one man cared to suc yam teed Fro From m Miss Keens Keen's Own III r story f a i DORA CORA KEEN z now Mrs l 4 V df George W W. Handy I get there I Miss Dora Keen Is a Phil Philadelphian Philadelphian Phila- Phila a- a t delphian and when she climbed climbed Mount Blackburn four lour years ago and reached Its summit r ro feet above the sea one o j man reached it with her The E j two had been climbing for a month There had been six f f other ather men with them but five f o ohad f t had dropped out through loss p a of nerve and the sixth fell 9 h from exhaustion feet short of his goal The man who lasted through I was George W. W Handy and now four I years later ne he and Dora Keen have haTe j I become husband and wife i Brisk Life for a r Philadelphian Philadelphia Philadelphia had never coupled Miss Keen with romance Daughter of Dr W. W W. W Keen the eminent surg surgeon on and andrich andrich andrich rich in her own right she had never taken much part in the usual activIties activities activities ties of or her own set Where others went to the seaside to dress and dance I she preferred an expedition to the Alps a a. horseback trip across Paraguay Paraguay Paraguay Para Para- guay or Dr a hunting trip in the wilds of Africa Where others filled their winI winters win win- I tern with dinners inners and cards theatre and opera she was immersed immers d in work for the Society for the Prevention m of Cruelty to Children or the American Society for Labor Legislation or the i Society for Organizing Charity or in Suffragist circles Serious and strenuous those strenuous those were the words to describe the five feet of womanhood of brisk eyed bright-eyed Dora Keen Bound to Conquer Blackburn It was in August 1911 that Miss Mies Keen first went to Alaska with the i a avowed purpose of scaling Mount fount Blackburn She had already topped Mount Blount Blanc and th the But Butin Butin Butin in Alaska not a native could she fin 1 to act as her guide Many had gone to Blackburn few had returned Finally Final Final- ly John B. B Barrett the only man who whoever whoever whoever ever scaled the peak consented to join her A party of four they setout set setout setout out got close to the top where overtaken overtaken overtaken over over- taken by a storm and forced to return re re- return turn without accomplishing their pur pur- pose pose Miss Keen is not the sort of person I who gives up an undertaking The Tho I following fallowIng May found her ready to start again But her former escorts were not to be found As she was casting about for others a man whom she had met just once and casually volunteered to join thoI the tho I party With some mistrust of or my own own I judgment records i 1 Miss ss Keen Kee t IX brought a German from Cordova t sir Mr r. r G. G W. W Handy to be one a of the ex ex- I J So much for forthe the tho discernment discernment ot of the I intuitive intuitive sex iC f |