| Show I Hl I I Little Adventures in Switzerland II Interlaken Switzerland Im I m so full of emotions and sensations and anticipations that I dont know how I can stop long enough to tell teU about them I left Lausanne alone for this adventure in Switzerland as as a child as we skirted the blue lake to Montreux There I climbed out and into an electric car carone carone carone one of a dozen in a long train diner and all without smoke or dust and with little noise We climbed In a zig zigzag zigzag zigzag zag up and up with the lake glimpses and tho the Dents du Midi getting further and further away then a series ser s ot of tun tunnels tunnels tunnels nels and I was in a new land Ro Romance Romance Romance mance Switzerland was left behind on Lake Leman I was in Teutonic Swit Switzerland Switzerland and the train people talked In InGerman InGerman inGerman German instead of ot French and the gurgled all around me meSu Such Su h a beauteous land The cleanest greenest gre nest land I have ever seen You have heard of ot emerald fields well these mountain pastures were emerald with a polish on they were translucent and fairly glittered gUttered In the sunshine The dark pines fringed their freshness and mounted on up to the great domes and cliffs splendid mountains and we of ot the tho know what is expected of mountains too And on the slopes were the Swiss chalets One felt sure you could lift the tops of some of ot them and find shells and trin trinkets trinkets trinkets Inside and that others had a key around somewhere that you could turn and make them play lovely yodel airs music box houses Everybody seemed to be raking hay in the mountain pastures except where the big beautiful cows tinkled their big bells and preempted the meadows The Ther r women had their skirts tucked up and wore kerchiefs on their heads and they and the men raked with great wooden rakes In field after field telling an An Angelus Angelus Angelus gelus story for some Millet to come and get I was shifting from one side of the car to the other to catch the views or see the people or to get another chalet box until a man came cameto cameto cameto to announce luncheon The diner was quite comfortable not so smooth as ours In traveling of ot course cour because an electric car is necessarily lighter They i serve a table luncheon of ot soup I macaroni two meat courses cheese and fruit for about 75 cents wine extra Two ladies ladles Americans sat down don with me and it developed we had ha mutual acquaintances so we came through to Interlaken together There was such a nice guard on the train and when I complimented him on his English he blushed like a girl and could do enough for me helped me off ott with my luggage and even ran over oyer overto overto to the th station and bought for me my ticket up to Thun where I wanted to spend two hours off olt the beaten track before going on to Interlaken This Tints Is miracles from a Swiss On the train which I 1 took at th this junction a nice English girl from Australia shared her heri i seat with me and we talked of Amer America AmerIca America ica a fat stumpy stolid Swi Swiss s across the compartment came to life long lon enough to let it be a known in bad English Eng English English lish that he lived in Napoleon Ind for two years and thinks the United States the greatest ever He quite gushed I did the fat Suisse and then pointed out the various arlous mountains in sight and other oth features of the landscape Nor Is that all tU of ot the human side of the Ad Adventure Adventure venture I Inquired my way in Thun of a handsome young youna Englishman in ini i knickers and golf stockings and he walked two blocks with me In order to tot t set me in the right road Why dont our men wear clothes like that Thun Itself at the exit exl end of Lak I Thun Thuon Is the quaintest most fascinating I ing fag of villages I climbed some cov coy covered io ered steps worn by the feet of centurieS riest rieS to the old chateau that looks ex exactly exactly exactly as a chateau ought towers walls waifs and all allI I wandered wan eyed through the court 1 and up some ome airs and through vari vart various II I ous narrow halls reconstructing a aI I I ghastly scene of at the two brothers who Quarreled and pursued each other from I room to room from gallery galler to gallery until U ntH the fleeing one sorely wounded I was hurled from an upper window to toI I the stones tones below The place was fit for forI I 1 fights lights and stratagems and things Then I J wandered over oer to the quaint old i Its frescoed porch and Its quiet churchyard The Tha 0 f J l i crosses and the queer big slabs under the rustling trees were as they have been oh so very yer very long mute chronicles of ot tears long since shed and wiped away The views from the churchyard churchard were fine all over over the coun countryside countryside countryside the Aar and the lake Then I 1 climbed down stopping at every turn to catch a picturesque bit of tower or pendant pen ant roof or to watch the artists sketching here and there I think all the tho English sketch the Americans snap their Oh yes They make In Thun a ma majolica majolica majolica ware war ware decorated with the moun mountain mountain mountain tain flowers and when chosen with dis discrimination crimination quite effective I have a plate bordered with edelweiss Then I came to Interlaken A fine old gentleman drove me to the hotel Said I to the hotel hotelman hotelman hotelman man as he opened a room do r I want to see the It is here madame he exclaimed and threw wide the blinds A long was all I 1 had words for and I wrapped up Jb in n my steamer rug drew my chair to the open window and there I stayed worshipping the Virgin till the last loving touch of the sunset had faded and the moon rose behind the ridge and flooded the noble slopes anew I know how thoroughly I was built for Adventure until tonight I certainly am adventuring at the with three English on guard guardin in the most proper and inoffensive fashion I had breakfast the ter terrace terrace terrace race with one of ot them this morning and he gave some somo valuable suggestions suggestions as to my days da s sightseeing Now ow I am trying tring to listen to the music and watch the people such a homely homei people peo people people as I have remarked before but so funny Those at the table where I flit first sat down looked as if It they had been carved from wood by b some amateur carver quite as stolid and common commonplace commonplace commonplace place as images A party of fat elder elderly ly sisters were drinking beer across the way wa beer was the fa favorite rite bever beer beverage beverage age all along so the nationality of my beauty show Is evident There is an English man or woman here and there but the English women dress quite as abominably as the Germans or worse so they dont enliven the landscape There Is a reading room and a writing room I found one old lady comfort comfortably comfortably comfortably ably napping in a corner there having I her forty winks Also there is a gaming room the first I ever saw and I was vastly interested In It it The players seemed to be amateurs for tor forthe forthe the most part As I was writing this foolishness the fireworks began with a great splutter atlon and a banging and considerable beauty that was very ery tame beside the great silver sliver disk of the moon and the shadowy outlines of the hills bills Then I came home This day Itself held the Alps a big lot for one day but I feel that I Ican Ican Ican can come home content that I have seen and enjoyed something of ot Alpine scenery There were the same music box chalets chalet on the green hillsides sun sunburned sunburned sunburned burned and picturesque but more pine forests as as we climbed the trunks moss grown the rocks and earth itself un underneath underneath underneath the trees covered with ferns and a soft soU mossy moss carpet Then the mountains were as bare almost as ours and then the full glory of the Jung frau I had lunch at Scheidegg the regular dinner and stayed there for an hour and a half so close to the great white Virgin she seemed to be protecting me personally I even heard an avalanche thunder from her broad lap down to the Scheidegg plat plateau plateau plateau eau I t quite understand the worship of the I too am a devotee The afterward seemed al almost almost almost most tame although it is a lovely green valley set In the circling peaks In company with two Bourgeois Eng lish people a man and his wife who now live In Rouen I 1 took a car carriage from Grindelwald out to the upper glacier gla glacier glacier cier That was interesting In its enor enormous enormOus enormous mass and the evidences of ot ero erosion erosion erosion sion in the valley and the suggestion of the mighty forces that out all these valleys The little walk in inthe Inthe inthe the ice cave was like getting inside a huge emerald but the glacier was a bit like Ilke Mammoth cave to me I am glad to hive have it off ot my m mind and should not nott t take much trouble to see it again Ever since I left Lausanne I have been jeen pursued by a bear I dont want him to get me and Im afraid he will He is everywhere Sometimes he is the little baby bear and sometimes the bear Sometimes he sits sometimes he stands and always alwa s he hecocks hecocks hecocks cocks his head and winks his eye at atmo atme atme me mo as much as to say Ill get you OU yet And I 1 dont want a bear Think of dusting a wooden bear to the end of your days das I do think of that and andset andset andset set the bear back on the counter and run from him only to meet him around the corner again with the selfsame grin The Swiss S iss certainly show little power of invention in their otherwise beautiful beautiful ful wood carving There are bears and bears first then a chamois with his head turned back he is almost as dan dangerous dangerous dangerous as the bear hear and a man and a woman and napkin rings and boxes with edelweiss decorations and about all the variety The embroideries here are ravishing I and what Is worse they are reduced at this the end of the season se son Could any an mere mortal woman resist that Swiss embroidery and a bargain I may be beable beable beable able to escape the bear but Ill never get away from the embroidery I f 9 This Is the end of ot another day da It was dark as we reached a bit of water after a tedious journey journe What is that I asked with languid interest of ofa ofa ofa a pretty little French girl who shared my seat That she answered is Lake Luzerne and yonder is the RIgl Rigi and over on the other side Is Mt It Pi latus Then I waked up and It was true for we soon rounded the end of the lake the full moon looked over oV r the th the shoulders of the th the Rigi and another dream had come true There was the water dark blue except where the moon silvered slivered it there were the mountains coming steeply to the edge exactly like a moonlight postal card We lost this beauty directly we arrived at Luzern Itself I took a carriages for my m pen pension pension pension sion engaged on the recommendation of at some English women we met at Lausanne It is on Gibraltar rock The horse zigzagged up a mountain trail to get there feet fee above the town Then I was ushered up about feet more to a queer little box of at a bed bedroom bedroom bedroom room The place seems all nil right but what funny tunny folks the English are 01 I had a happy morning puttering around the streets of Interlaken First FirstI I 1 went about Unterseen the peasant quarter and lingered about the quaint old church tower with its gaily painted d face and the coat of arms of ot the canton below It was built if you please n n 1285 truly mediaeval you will observe Then I wandered on down towards the tourist quarter and I struck the monthly market mark t day How you would enjoy the markets I J go to at least east two of ot them every week in Lausanne they fascinate me so This Interlaken market was a little There was everything for sale from a pair pall of suspenders to an ugly new flat fiat black blackhat blackhat blackhat hat with an impossible flower nodding nod in front Perhaps you had a notion you wanted a cowbell since you OU had heard the mellow music of the herd as It came down don from the hills the night be before before before fore Well pay from 5 to 20 for one of them very heavy they are and beautiful in tone Or maybe like a pig I never saw such clean pink pigs In my life They certainly had been scrubbed with soap and water before they were put in the little carts and covered with a sort of ot rope net though perhaps the tine theone theone one you wanted was driven down the street with a rope around his neck and anda a stick gently encouraging his pro progress progress progress gress You could buy any of these things and dozens more At the end of the street the farmers were buying and selling goats Nanny Nann and Billy and all the little kids were mere goats have so much character A step from this peasant show and I was among the tempting shops of at the time new tourist Interlaken The Th bear inns has h s not caught me yet et I was Interested a little fur further further further ther on In the old old monastery which was the originate original settlement at this point between the two lakes of Thun and Brienz Interlaken Now in one corner of the buildings the Ro Roman Roman Roman man Catholics s hold forth in another the Presbyterians in another the Epis Episcopalians Episcopalians Episcopalians while the municipality oc occupies occupies one portion The old chapel and aad nadone andone one of ot the cloisters are ae still worth see seeing ing But heres The end of my paper per and a long letter for one sitting o R R P i iF iI I Ii II F i I |
