Show visit to swiss mountains fountai ns Is interesting this thi i is another article by 1 miss josephine joephine daines Di ines in aih she adl f of her visit isit to SM aitor land list last Iu nimer mountains yes eq I 1 could set see one once arnin again they or ere not t tile the hills of ionic home but leal steep steel ones onci rocky locky ones snow capped ones they writ were ilif dif ferent though approaching them we notice noticed cultivated crops over hollink lol 1 linK glop it IS we v got to ti tile the mountains tile kicen green pasture hinds went right on oil ill up houses high up on 01 these sleep slopes looked tit like they inight fill fall off the swiss people stop slop using ushii the land for crops when alien tho the slope go kot t too steep steel for machinery machinery is scarce there on oil u 11 card front one of our american loys ys I 1 in switzer eiland and lie jokingly sa daiil one L leg e had become shorter shelter than hall th the to other from cutting cuttin ff hay lay by hand and hauling hau lini it on his back down the mountain soil erosion Eio sion that solli ething tit alic banners are abc concerned eliout but ait dont see sec bad glaring examples of its work the american hoys boys explained one of their practices to us in plowing their hillside 1104 they start stait at the bottom going around the field in doing this they left a ditch at the top and estr calia dirt at the bottoni bottom the swiss farm farin er tale hen put tal the tl dirt 1 t in 1 n t suck t ck 1 I his buck und it it il up ti the sl I 1 hillside to deposit it t i in 1 i t the I 1 L itil if cli i i you lae lit be just allow 01 erosion Os loll variation found in ill this thi s little country of square miles ii is almost climate Clin inte is varied the higher elevations have snow nil all year around on 01 tit alie lower elevations on oil the south side of the alps one finds poll trees magnolias lemon trees kiil such midi weather crops language varies vii rits too one section speaks CA IV french ellCh us lis their native tongue while nother linot ii ber part ani L speaks G brinan Senni er inan close tt to italy it 11 lurka diction sic tion italian while still 11 different section speaks I 1 I 1 nn in old native ton tongue glie occupations are v varied aried today 11 t 1 per cent of the people being in industry trY and handicraft 2 22 per let cent tire farmers in traveling tra velini over tins this little country one can call soon get an ail idea na as to what a largo large percentage of the population make a living from the tourist switzerland is truly a vacation era rs paradise at zurich we went for foi at 11 ride on oil the lake and liked hiked up i a i mountain i i n this mountain climb i icik agno nut was 1 s tal different i front from what you find fill here the trail was wide not too loo steel sleep had a hand rall rail and steps in ill the steep places on oil top we stopped tit at it a hotel and restaurant for our dinner tim the hike worked up till good appetites for my iny frie friends I 1 ids who were from the flat lands landa of I 1 kansas a n and tile the eastern of mal maryland y I 1 shant mention tile the kirl girl from utah who effi climbed libed anything steeped lhnn a dutch dike all summer coming down the trail it was daik but we mind because it was well lighted with electric lamps and so BO tills this was our first mountain climbing clim hinK experience in switzerland |