Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
From Over the Water.

GosCHENEN, Saturday Night.
When we came to take the boat it was
| raining and we concluded to stay in Lu-
cerne over night. 'Tis a beautiful city !,
| on the edge of the lake, looking out upon
| the Rigi to the left and Pilatus to the
right, with any number of monuments in
between. We walked oyer two old bridges.
one of them five hundred years of age
quite venerable you see. They are COW
cred and have queer three-cornered paint
ings put up Just under the roof. In the
centre of one bridge was a shrine to the
Virgin with some pretty German verses
inscribed to her. We see shrines and
crosses very often now, and people kneel-
ing before them.
I'm rather disappointed with the class
of people we've SET n in travelling thus far.
So many blank or vulgar faces, so few
thoughtful or characterful ones. The
Germans especially struck me as being
decidedly of the lower order of civiliza-
ton. We did see one German professor
from Frankfort. He was on the tram
with us for long time one afternoon. /
noticed his face and liked it. He got ac-
Quainted with Mr.. Ii. and two of the girls
and seemed much Interested in finding
out about us. He couldn't see why we
wanted to travel that way-trying to see
so much in these few weeks. He said
that we couldn't see Rome in less than
five weeks. One Of the girls told him we
We're going around to tinQ out where we
should stay next time we visited Europe.
"And do you really expect to come
again." II" said. He was much surprised
when Miss Mitchell told him she read
Greek. Ills ideas of Americans must
have been peculiar, and | doubt whether
they We're much altered. There was a
German soldier on the same car who evil
IDENTIFY enjoyed talking German with Miss
Hemingway and taking notes OF the party
and young Swiss, | hear. was greatly
interested In the crowd He wanted to
know of Prof. p. if some OF the girls were
not engaged, and got up quite conver-
Sation with Miss G.; asked her the price
of mitts in America and | don't know
what all. In Lucerne and since then
we've seen more nice looking people than
we have since we left London, and there
We're not many there. So, unless some
thing radically different comes up, you
need not have the slightest fear that my
''little heart will become entanSled on
this side of the water.
But to resume and continue or. We
left Lucerne at 80 A. NJ. by boat for
Vltznan. The morning was beautiful and
the lake perfectly charming-smooth az
glass and changing its tints from green to
purple and almost pink. At VitZnan we
took the railroad up the mountain to Rigi
Kuhn. The funny little engine is well
described by Stockton in his st. Nicholas
articles. 1t is needless to say we had fine
views on top and all the way up. There
were too many clouds when we reached
the summit tor us to see the mountain
peaks very well. We had glimpses of
Finsterarhorn, MatterhOrn, Schreekhorn
and number of other ''horns," through
the clouds. But the scene that remem-
Der with most pleasure is the miniature
of Lakes Lucerne and Zugwith, the little
towns of kussnacht and immense, just
opposite each other. When the day is
clear a view can be had for a radius offfty
miles, but there are nearlS- always clouds
The air of Switzerland is so refreshing
air and water are free ard delightful.
There are flowers growing everywhere,
too. The day we went to Murren know
we saw at least thirty different varieties.
Dandelions. buttercups and daisiesin pro-
fusion. The odd shaped flower picked
on the way down from Murren | don't
know the name of it. The pink tipped
daisies came from the Rigi. We have
not yet passed beyond the region of flow
ers. We came down the Rigi on the rail-
road again and took n boat from NitZnan
to FlueIen. twas through the region of
the VIM Tell story, and could not real
ize that twas really l sailing along that
beautiful lake of Lucerne. We passed
Gersaa, Brunnen, Rutli. Tells Plate-all
Of them mentioned in Scililler's play OF
VIM. Tell. There is large rock, eighty
feet high on the west bank OF the lake,
which has an inscription t. Schiller.
was brou. sht to my senses, or to reallZ-