New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-26
country, and you understand the saying st'nsy
and proud as o Swiss"


spch curiosity M their women have, no Yankee
woman would dare show. Such direct questions
Quaker preacheress would hesitate TO ask. 'Nhat
do YOU eat in America said one lady LOOKING
searchngly at me, as If to detect any oecel''on'
What do eati Why, what do you eatf Nege-
tables flesh and bread Of course' We'll
thought YOU ate something different from rs An
other lady of municipal rank sand to me III her own
house as she poured ont wine: That Is ChaoiS
did YOU ever drink itP Her husband Vainly trieu
TO shake his head at her. Certainly rePheu'
everybody who drinks wine drinks ChablS AT INC
beginning of dinner. We serve 1t with raw
oysters Their assumption is sometimes 30 liam
that il cxcites tartncss.'
ais the general drink in Switzerland wine =
eyes; il costs from franc to two francs
bottle They drink no whiskcy. little hrah"I' o"'
considerable Keerschwasser 1t is rare to see "
drunken Swiss of any condition.
Are the women superior TO ours
ayes women of respectable condition study moro
than ours and are less employed IN spending
money in dress and In idlng. such industrious
women are rare to be seen anywhere lhcy 20 o"'
together in botanical and geological classes OF cupS
Three or four languages are expected To ne spun"
by all of them. The workwomcn going to tie iac-
tories in the morning with their kettles oil iood ."
their arms knit a. they walk and the little tots oi
children on their way to school knit as they make
,hpir little stems Industry is born in the country
Ito men I may saw are born disciplined, and the
women strive 10 waste less time than the men.
American life, even in our stadeSt Ne"-EhgI"iu
towns looks a little shltless after being year
among Swiss housekccpcrs. There Is more per
meatirg national spirit. too in the Swiss k'pnohc
than i'm ours II embraces honor IN every concern oil
Office or Of citizenship. Their PATRIOTISM Is re-
igions A bankrupt ceases TO bc free citizen ana
tttNf u
optimistic atmosphere of our States. where method
Is not so necessary. They have very httlc 10 ne
pend upon and must scrapc the very stones for life
The manufactures Of Switzerland are considerable.
lint are being threatened by America. Germany ana
England Indeed being the inukccpcr for the
tourists of the world is the natural avocaon OF the
Swiss"
Has not that fact n somewhat dc;oring in'u-
encc on the virtues you mcntionT
at increases the natural rapa'ity of the people
making them look 10 every point where they can
reach for another cent. They waylay travellers Tor
some new toll wherever there Is bit of scenery
one hoy wants to hc paid for blowing an Alpine
horn another for firing a cannon 10 pr"Inc' an
echo others want to sell sticks or carved """'.
But for their latent Of freedom antiquity and
honesty. they would be dcmoralilcd by such petty
occupations"
lis there not considerable proyincialism and lack
of brcadth"
ayes. but it is compensated for 10y great variety
of local prciudiccs. There is more difference h"-
tween cities Of Switzerland only forty miles apart
than there are antason.ms here between states
and sections divided lev Thousand miles I1h"
Basic. for instance. with It's Protestant conserve
tlsm and gravity Of character, and thin Slip over io
Zurich. where every Aihili,t and rclae'c ff"n d."
Continent gets safe shelter and where ridicai-in Is
hereditary, In religion they arc divided To do
gree unknown here. whore every Protestant hou~"
contains it's Catholic servant and We do ro' r'mcm-
her the difference. There the Protest ini~ af" All
KEYED MP like n steel piano 10 sound the alarm OF
Catholic aggression and tie Cathoic- alc as ac-
crcssiyc as mischief can make them. G,n'Va the
home Of Calvin IL Catholic NOW. through an annex
alton OF new territory. THIS produces good deal
of childish exultation and irritation though There
has been no actual loss gain. Caltin- memory 's
still very dear to Swiss rro,cstaut- AMI Iviugc's
| is much cherished also
"Do they know much about the United Nfatc,f
"By reading they do by faith and >i-ht hut
little. II Swiss loses any money IA American
speculation it becomes "A subject of talk ior years
and years lie invested in American railways
ana became bankrupt. He had to sell his home,
where his fathers had been burehcr, three hundred
years They think more OF it than OF the ill Of
ROYAL house Indeed their honesty goes 10 the bone.
| The roads are without fences and lined with cherry
! trees and the laborcrs and children arr poor and
hungry but those chcrric, rot ou the trc- and dIOp
often. and yet nobody thinks OF picking one
lave they any fear of foreign conquest Of
| Switzerlandi'
"No. They believe that at the attempt Of any
one Power to annex Switzerland, all the other
Powers will come to her aid. II the worst comes,
every man in switzerland will die fighting; every
| i,,tli. and
| Lorraine by German conquest endure in the hearts
Of the Swiss. Their pride of ancient liberty and
unity. never encryacd as in the case of the French
! hy frivoity or luxury. will make the Catholics rs
wcn rs ProtcStauts fanatic for the liberty of Swift
zcrland William Tell, you knoN, was from a Cath
oc Canton
alias the annexation Of Alsacc and Lorraine been
| Of any irritation to the Swiss p
"Yes In past times Inc allies Of the Swiss against
| Burgundy were the Lorraine people The SWISS
! hate about equally England and Russia on account
of their military aud political arrogance. The
French are now popular nation all over Europe,
though the runis exploit has somewhat annoyed
the Italians. Nicholas Fish, our late Minister 10
| Switzerland who was several year. Secretary Of
! Location at Berlin came from S,rl-hurg hdch to
| Switzerland ycry mach depressed on account OF
| his conviction that Al,acc Would never b. recon-
| ccd to German domiuatlnr llc vas sincere
sympathlcr with Germany He found nobody On
| Strasburg rcconccd. They an sad their deliver
ancc would come, though it might take mau' years.
Old people. girls little children. forgot everything
| IN their hate of Germany
~Yct the French seized Alsacc by unprincplcd
| conquest
THAT is so. But they do not consider that. hap
pcning n they say. two hundred years ago They
say the present generation of Gcrmang, knowing
their birth in France and deep attachment 70 d..
had no moral right To take them bodily Iu instead Of
assessing on France al large the penalty 81 the war