T AMONG THE SNOW-LADEN PINES A CYCLE OF WINTER SPORTS HERE is no season of the year that provides such exhilarating, healthful, and enjoyable sports as the winter. There is no place in the world that makes a better scene of action than Montreal, Canada. In Mount Royal, rising from the very heart of the city, the Canadian metropolis is fortunate in possessing an unrivaled playground. Snow-shoeing, sliding, skiing, tobogganing, riding, driving, kodaking, daily draw the population in hundreds to its slopes. There is room enough and to spare for all who come, and throughout the winter weeks the clear, bracing air rings with the shouts of merrymakers, to which the sleighbells lend a harmonious note. Montreal has always been a popular center for winter sports. There is a snow-shoe club here which recently celebrated its eightieth birthday. Another one was organized one hundred and seventeen years ago, and a hundred years before that, and more, snowshoeing was an every-day fact. In those strenuous early days, however, it was probably not regarded as a pastime, as it was the ordinary and almost the only means of getting from place to place for man or woman. But it accomplished the same purpose then as it does to-day. It set the pulses throbbing and blood coursing. It developed mind and body, bone and sinew, breeding a race of hardy northerners. It kindled the imagination, turning the commonplaces of life into poetry and romance and making of its tragedies the inspiration to effort. While summer invites to contemplation, the winter stimulates to action. It is the winter that offers a necessary natural outlet for the stored-up energy of the human frame. Participation in winter sports is the best tonic in the world-a sort of scientific massage administered by the wisest of nurses, Dame Nature herself. 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Department of Classified Advertising Sporting circles in Montreal have organized this year on a gigantic basis. A complete cycle of winter amusements has been arranged to cover entirely the months of January and February. Every week will have special attractions in the way of hockey matches between the big leagues, ski-jumping competitions, curling tournaments, horse-racing on the ice, exhibitions of fancy skating, snowshoeing contests, trap-shooting, and fancy-dress skating carnivals, with to- 381 Fourth Avenue, bogganing and bob-sledding at the famous Park Slide, recently rebuilt. Dog THE OUTLOOK COMPANY New York City A CYCLE OF WINTER SPORTS (Continued) teams of Eskimo huskies, which have proved so popular in the White Mountains, are to be imported, and there has been a revival in favor of tandem driving for horses as well. The oldfashioned low Russian sleigh, with its quantities of soft fur robes, has also come back into common use, and nothing is more suitable for an afternoon's drive along the winding roads of the mountain, from which such wonderful views may be obtained over the city for miles of the surrounding country. Those who have never before taken part in any winter sports will be delighted to find how easy it is to learn to skate, to steer a toboggan, or "soop 'er up" at the curling rink. With competent instructors, whose services will be readily available for visitors during the winter, the novice after a few lessons becomes proficient enough to venture anywhere and so enthusiastic that the weeks of frost and snow seem all too short. Dress plays an important part in winter sports. Since fashion allows the most gorgeous hues for men as well as women, we find the members of the sterner sex reveling freely in the vivid blues and reds and yellows that their every-day garb forbids. Who shall measure the psychological value of this harmless indulgence of a primitive taste? The blanket coat, white or gray or colored, is still the popular garment for the snow-shoer, with woolen toque and sash and mittens of some bright contrasting shade. Skiers find a closely woven wool sweater more suitable, while men and maidens alike wear kneebreeches and short coats. There must be no hampering skirts for the girl who skis-no flying tassels or loose ends to catch on the trees and stumps as she shoots down the runway. The curler who enters for the annual charity bonspiel would consider he might spoil his luck if he appeared without the Scotch cap that is invariably associated with the roarin' game. Visitors who prefer to be onlookers at the sports wear fur-long, rich-looking coats of seal or muskrat, Persian lamb or coonskin. It has been said that in no city of the world are seen so many fine-looking fur coats in proportion to the population. 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