Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-24
WHEELING IN EUROPE.
The Pleasures of Lettering in the
Mountains.
BICYCLING IN SWITZERLAND.
me Rambling Old Inn and Its Inhabifants-
Over the Mountain Passes-Push Up and
Back Pedal Down-In the Rhons valley
The Old Swiss Church.
'peciAl correspontence Of The Evening Star.
81. LUzIESsTEIe, SWITZERLAND,


81. LUzIESsTEIe, SWITZERLAND,
September 10. 1891.
WEARE ON THE EDGE OF swITZER-
w land There is nothing and nobody
hero with US but the great rambling old CAST
hsgs, by which We refer TO the inn, two barns,
"a little church ont in the meadow back Of the
house. 'der water, die frau and their noisy little
heir az parent, ''das maedchen' vino helps about
the kitchen, six cous-they're not exactly here
now, but it is getting toward evening and
they'll be along soou-one goat, a cat. two dogs
and our bicycles Our being here is not the
result Of premeditatiOn- We were passing on
our way to the next town, where we intended
to put up over Sunday, when the home-like APP
peerance Of the place appealed to US and we
said, Lets stop here" and we did, much to the
frsu's surprise. who very seldom has guests,
save once year, in May, when great crowds
come TO attend services in the church and pack
the gastlaus to its utmost capacity This is
one OF the advantages of a tour such as ours,
rae opportunity and the privilege of stopping
wherever and whenever il strikes your fancy
intspendent Of time tables and everything else
that teGds TO restrict the freedom of ones
movements.
Ou- sitting room is a large apartment on the
second ao0r, with ceiling and walls OF plainly
painted modern panels and floor of broad,
Imprinted, but well-nsztcl.ed boards The Iur-
nisAinEs are two long ableS. with accom-
Panimeat of beaches and heavy chairs. Here
the frau conducted us when We arrived. saying
that We would be quite alone and undiSturbed,
Tor IL Is but seldom that the room is used: then
II resOUnds with the merry clink OF glasses and
Ihs notes of some vollsiied sung in that har-
monious fashion with which the German race
Is gifted. Our bed rooms, which the frau
FASTENED to prepare for US, proved TO be of
cell-lI&s appearance. plastered in light brown
szh- 4
The ceiling and walls yAnlted in a delight
fully medieval style and we fell asleep last night
imagining ourselves boiier-plated knights and
tie lowing of the fretful goat in the barn the
heighing OF oEr impatient chargers
Bot there come the cows. What a noise they
make Forty or more of them and each with
a large bell about her neck, which rings and
oiHtters necessarily. Our eows-observe how
we say our cOws?--are last and turn into the
yard and lelsurely make their way to the stable
We resolve to take advantage Of our oppor-
tunIty and have plenty OF fresh milk for supper
here come more cows Tinkle, tinkle, like q
sleishinS party No, they are goats, lady
goats, each. like the cows, with a bell about her
neck young Swiss drives them. He is in a
sportive mood and every few minutes rushes
ai them. sPringirg nimbly into the air with a
flourish OF his bare .eet Just he seems on
the point of colliding with the rearmost portion
CT the Flock The goats know him of old and
pa= no heed TO his demonstrations and con-
as they move slowly hOmeward. Now they are
gone, down the null toward Maienfeld.
REAL ONIONS.
After she had given US our coffee in the
morning, which we procured by going to the
stAirWav and calling out loudly. 'Madamer'
which sire answered, from some recess below
with ''la. when we said 'kaffee?" and abe
again responded IA, the frau would have
left us To starve. soimpressed was she that such
N1rfa WNEYw
rrp'eu by suggestions of the dinner hour Our
dinner. when II was brought, consisted of excel
leut noodle soup, ham and eggs and fine white
bread, Pretaced by explanation by the frau
Of the difference between hamme and hamme-
relsch- Hamme. We are now informed. ia
po-k and the other mutton We both. c.
anu i. Lave a weakness for onions and we
thought how nice 1t would be to have some
Rom the garden An order was filed for
onions and they came from the cellar, great big
fellows with n breath on them like an asafetida
factory. We explained to the frau that it was
hitIe onions We wanted. We meant Young
onions. but the frau Is accustomed to taking
everything literally and We got little onions but
equally as Pungent as the first We are re-
minded Of another occasion when we wanted
onions. and in the absence of our dictionary
drew very hfe-like picture of an ideal onion
fraulein-
The secret is out. We have told the frau
MAT We are "Amerikaners' from North Amer
ga and that the occasion of all this industry
L that we are striving to give a block of the
great American public the benefit of our ex-
gerienses and observations. o., as we tell her,
VIZ schreIoen fuer America nische Zeitungen."
She sad, '-So?" and brolgh: US her best coal
OF lamp instead OF the candle which was good
enough for Us last evening, when We were un-
.Hnwn. This furnishes a further proof that il
IL worth something 70 be connected with the
newspaper fraternity even in . humble and
obscare capacity