. Outing. AND YET ENGLISH WOMEN SAY THAT SKIINGDOES NOT IMPROVE THE FIGURE. travel in their wanderings over the vastplains of Central Asia, and that thus theskis origin is inseparably bound up withthe unknown early ancestry of man. The Greek historian, Prokopus, men-tions that the Lapps, or Skrid-Finner—meaning the Finns who glide—werethe best of all men at the art, and as theword itself (which, by the way, is pro-nounced shee) undoubtedly comes fromthe Finnish subsi or suksi, the CentralAsia hypothesis is about complete. The character of the country to betraversed determines the style of skim
. Outing. AND YET ENGLISH WOMEN SAY THAT SKIINGDOES NOT IMPROVE THE FIGURE. travel in their wanderings over the vastplains of Central Asia, and that thus theskis origin is inseparably bound up withthe unknown early ancestry of man. The Greek historian, Prokopus, men-tions that the Lapps, or Skrid-Finner—meaning the Finns who glide—werethe best of all men at the art, and as theword itself (which, by the way, is pro-nounced shee) undoubtedly comes fromthe Finnish subsi or suksi, the CentralAsia hypothesis is about complete. The character of the country to betraversed determines the style of skimost practical to use. There is thelong, narrow variety, used so extensively 298 THE OUTING MAGAZINE Aifosf11 iii/^*lHm/a -M ^. ■Jtms&s ERECT AND PLIANT AT THE START OF THE RUN. in Osterdalen and Sweden, and theshort, broad ski, more suitable forbroken, difficult county. These twogeneral types have been modified accord-ing to topographical requirements, untilnow almost every district in Scandi-navia has its particular kind. Notwithstanding that ten years agoit was estimated that outside Scandi-navia only about one hundred men hadever had ski on their feet, ContinentalEurope already had its own type, whichthey called the Lillienfeld ski and bind-ing. These were the inventions, orrather the improvements, of a certainHerr Zdarsky, an Austrian philosopherwho in the quiet of his Alpine villagesuddenly decided that the unwieldyplanks might be of use in mountainclimbing. He accordingly sent to Nor-way for a pair and proceeded to teachhimself their use. After a short trial he decided that hecould not only infinitely improve uponthe instruments, but that he could re-duce their use to an exact science. Theresult i
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