The Kenosha Telegraph

Dangerous Playthings.

The Alps are dangerous playthings,
and yet all tourists insist on playing
with them. Every one wants to go a
little higher than anybody has ever
been before. The ladies are particu-
larly venturesome. Captain and Mrs.
Lockhart, of Scotland, were spending
the summer in the Swiss Alps, near the
Rosegg glacier. There is a kind of
flower, called Eidelwess, which grows
only at about 10,000 feet above the sea
level. It grows on a steep and rugged
height near the hotel where the Lock-
harts were staying. Mrs. Lockhart
wanted one of these flowers. No lady
had ever been able to get one. She
slipped away from the captain one day,
and in company with a daring lady
friend ascended the height. She
slipped and fell from one precipice and
rolled to the next until she was out of
her friend's sight. The friend raised
an alarm. Mrs. Lockhart was found
lodged against a bush which overhung
a fearful chasm—insensible, but alive.
She was rescued, all bruised and bleed-
ing, but it is thought she will recover.
It will not be long before some other
woman will want to get a flower which
no other woman ever reached, and she'll
go for it.