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Show REST IS FOUND AT LUCERNE Distributing Center of the Swls ' Tourist Trade Where Tired Travelers May Recuperate. London. In the lives of most of us, Lucerne is inevitable, says the Metropolitan. Metro-politan. It is the half-way house where thousands and thousands of wearied travelers snatch a day's rest and a night's Bleep in mountain air as they pas3 to and from the exhausting sights of Italy, France and Germany. It is the distributing center of the Swiss '. i - Sr - Swiss Milkman. - Familiar Sight at Lucerne. tourist trade, the market, as it were, where the high" Alps secure their knickerbockered climbers, and the up land resorts their round-collared i.ng-lish i.ng-lish curates and their caped and green-hatted green-hatted German families. It is a town which goes on in a continual turmoil of transient visitors. The station is a confusion of trains and the lovely blue lake a mere crowded pathway for the white steamers which are forever embarking em-barking or disembarking invading armies. It is amazingly easy to plan to visit Lucerne, but it is almost unnecessary un-necessary somehow you always find yourself there. And it is not worth while to plan not to come somehow you always find it pleasant to be there, In Cosmopolis. To some visitors Cosmopolis, as one sees it on the Schweizerhof of Quai, may seem to be too preponderantly German to deserve Its name. (But it is only fair to Lucerne to' remember that in Switzerland, which lies at least adjacent, and in the town itself, which is even closer at hand, is domiciled a, very considerable German-speaking and indigenous population. Abstract the Swiss, and nowhere, it is probable, do the nations of the world meet in such equal and such large numbers. The foundations of the Tower of Babel may have been considerably built over by the new hotels and the Kursaal, but, in spite of Old Testament geography, geog-raphy, it is not difficult to believe that they still exist by the edge of the Vierwaldstatter See. |