Show s 4 = = Lift or Tnt WJs5 PeAS V e PGlpi < P + irr4w 5rtirtt + T1 tty n M1y s fist fOSfG fVfA fVCTiSfffV 5tc JWASJ 7U WiTZEItLAND never grows old or imle It never wearies Its f SITZEUA lovers and admirers It Is al was beautiful Surely Its people peo-ple have found the fountain of perpetual youth for nothing stales Its I Infinite variety It Is the country of seasonal and perennial attractions possessing that rare thing that oven vandal men cannot destroy The peasants love their homo and In many Instances prcseno the delightfully delight-fully quaint customs which so greatly charm the tourist One would bo mistaken mis-taken to Judge these people as ignorant igno-rant the constitution of tho country enables them to obtain an Insight Into general state affairs and great care Is taken In the education of the young to broaden their knowledge In I every direction Their intelligence therefore strikes the visitor as remarkable re-markable During the summer one Is not troubled with snow until one reaches about eight thousand feet altitude In the winter snow Is however as low as 2000 or even 1000 feet Tho white line thus moves high or low according to the season The pageantry of tho season Indeed Is nowhere else so crowded with delightful de-lightful surprises In which the peoplo move In sympathy The peasants are true to tho nature that has mothered them In the spring the villages are agog and abustle holding picturesque oldtime festivals preceding the start of tho herds to tho mountain pastures The matrons of the herds arc provided with melodious bells globular In form but thin and light and differing In size from twelve to two Inches in diameter di-ameter They are as arled In pitch as In size and their tones mellow Into a gentle harmonious effect without harshness The herders and tho dairy maids meet on tho village green to enjoy a day of song and dance Preparations are made for the summers round of activity In tho mountains where In spite of hard work an almost Idyllic experience Is lived by the light hearted heart-ed peasants The verdant and aromatic aro-matic pastures amid those wonderful scenic settings provide vistas opening on wide horizons of Jagged peaks and profound gorges clothed with tho rarest I rar-est verdure The mountain herdsmen and their comely companions of the churn are hardy and blooming and song and yodeling continually ease and relieve tho labors of tho summer when duties are arduous and results imperative It la a unique and Inspiring sight to witness the annual spring parade or procession starting for the mountain pastures The usual cooking and dairy utensils have to be transported for these migrants from the vales must remain with their charges In tho mountains until the time of return In the fall of the year They occupy their mountain huts which are fitted suitably suit-ably for themselves as well as for tho necessary dairying As soon as the snow begins to disappear from tho lower pastures the herder marshals his herd and starts out In tho festive fes-tive procession tho bull leads On his horns arc placed a milk stool and on his head a chaplet of flowers He bears hanging from his neck the melodious bell These deep > toned silver From made of alloyed hals are their tones have originated the Imitative or warbling of the herd tare yodeling changing from the fal era sudden I BOtto to tho chest voice and vice versa Following the monarch of tho herd comes the queen of the klne decorated nnd wearing tho best cavly ga has her Every cow bell of the cows accustomed aro they to bell and so that losing them Is a disaster them causing a loss of the cud The even know their places At the start kine the strongest and best assert their precedence They will battle among themselves for tho right of way which once settled nil Is ponce The leads In the search for pas bell cow Interfer turea new and she brooks no once response to the mountaineers Time of the herders Joyous yodel Is Bound a long horn the of Whom the must bo heard In tho foot of wldchmust mane ted Tho noun appreciated nPIJrfrla VIM to be ni > l JniM echo It with Infinite sweetness talus Is tender and thrilling the effect sad which from tfe the distance rthortho The farther heard tho more flutellke are flI Its tones ar mellow powerful answerpowerCul Its answerp scorns and sweet It fills the valley Strong are flung weirdly and the echoes while the mountain ram from strangely times when the parts Schweitzer In the Connor often had to leave lturdY force l an Intruding his herds and repel sums of sum moans tho alJonUorn the alplnhorn was 4 S N wt s ws YA t I fFAJAftr ft NAME tfrVUc monliig him to arms Even now the melody has a haunting sound that seems to speak of martial deeds No wonder the sound of tho alpenhorn was forbidden during tho days when the Swiss served as mercenaries to Franco and Italy and other countries says a writer Its sound would cause hundreds of otherwise faithful soldiers to desert for their Alps And the songs with which Alpine herders call their companions from hill to hill and from crag to crag are of the same nature There Is a very practical relationship relation-ship between good singing and good dairying and this was proved at o farmers congress at Interlakon whereIn where-In a milking contest three days Jong the same cows milked In songless silence yielded 200 quarts of milk milked by maids with fair voices they yielded 220 quarts milked by maids with tho finest voices they yielded 240 quarts This proof of a fact that had long been suspected at once set a premium pre-mium on the milkmaids who could sing well They that could not sins u u well began Immediately to study vocalization vo-calization and hence Switzerland has many good singing milkmaids InkIng I Ink-ing time In the mountain is easily known by tho tourist on account of the enormous volume of song that then soars up Silent milking Is a crime and the dairymaid who milks In silence Is certain to lose her portion po-rtion Swiss maids who apply for places In dairies arc examined as strictly In singing as in milking and buttermaking But dairying Is only ono of the Swiss peasants occupations occupa-tions All over tho sides of tho mountain are seen tho pretty chalets with their patches of cultivated ground and every peasant seems to own some land even though It may bo not more than a few square feet but It Is divided divid-ed off Into little plats for the different vegetables like pieces In a crazy quilt In the valleys are the orchards and pasture land The mountain farms are steep and rocky and cannot be plowed but are dug up with spades and hoes by women and girls The women also occasionally cut the grass on the almost al-most perpendicular mountain slopes bind It Into bundles and carry It to the barns on their backs There Is scarcely anything so picturesque pic-turesque us a Swiss haymaker with curiously pointed hat his loose blouse of dark hue and his knee breeches as he moves about with his rake over his shoulder That selfsame swaIn swinging his broadbladed straight handled scythe while with a swish swash he mows tho grass laid before him makes another graceful figure Tho round rosy cheeks and tho simple costume of basque full short skirt nnd bright headdress of the buxom maidens who rnko after him render the picture complete The costumes of theso still Idyllic peasants aro as picturesque as nature The Herneso peasant girls costume Is beautiful with Its snowwhite shirtsleeves shirt-sleeves rolled up to tho shoulder exposing ex-posing to view a plump sunburnt arm The life of the people active and intensely In-tensely human Is filled up with many festive occasions full of ceremonial traditions In these they exhibit their national customs and costumes and the most Interesting of them concern affairs nearest the heart Betrothal marriage christening as well as the many folk affairs furnish occasions In which tho festive dance Is gleefully Indulged In Many hard days work I Is ended by such festive gathering and then It Is that the soul of tho peasant Is wrought forth In his timely acts |