ABSTRACT
There will be no lack of diversion in an Alpine sanitarium. The place is half Englished to be sure, the local sheet appearing in double column text and translation; but it still remains half German; and hence the people have band which is able to play, and a company of actors able, as they will be told, to act. Of skating little need be said; in so snowy a climate the rinks must be intelligently managed; their mismanagement will lead to many days of vexation and some petty quarrelling; but when all goes well, it is certainly curious, and perhaps rather unsafe, for invalid to skate under a burning sun and walk back to his hotel in a sweat, through long tracts of glare and passages of freezing shadow. There is all manner of variety in the nature of the tracks, some miles in length, others but a few yards, and yet like some short rivers, furious in their brevity.
