New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-05

and that on its uplands could get what edelweiss
7 wished for the picking. My reply to this inv
tation ran substantially as follows: Alexander
the Great at the outset Of his illustriOus career
was asked by a friend Of his who was bit OF a
nbilosopher what he proposed TO do when lac had
conquered all creation. why, then, answered
Alexander d" / am going 10 sit down and rest
- WIN don't Won sit down and rest now?" in
oured the philosopher, with an audible smile
Inst word about the edelweiss--a sad word
g. must be- II there is any flower with which
more than another we associate austere purity, II
is she. The edelweiss is the nun Of her race by
natural selection Clad ever in vestal white,
dwelling ever far from the madding crowd, the re-
cluse of refuses pale, spctless. unworldy, breath
ing only the amper ether and dlvlner air oil
the heights nearest heaven, she is as little sug-
gestive of guile as one of RaphaePS cheruos, OF
say an unborn Mugwump. And yet and YETI
shame where is thy blush-l read recently In a
Trustworthy Swiss journal that substantial rumor
was afoat in Horticultural circles that even the
edelweiss will bear watching; that some of the
edelweiss which is purchased and sent home in
letters by sentimental tourists is made not born
made Of old white army coats which have out
lived their militant usefulness. leave the ruhor
as | read it, not having the heart 10 make any
comment. To find it's analogue Tor palnfnlnesS
one must 20 back to the day when All Sin, the
childlike and bland, put down the right bower
which had been dealt to Truthful James.
This little village Of Weesen, at which / have
been spending most of my summer vacation, Is tne
winning of SwitZerlandS notable lakes. NOT 700
big TO figure as jewel being nine miles long anu
a mile and something wide, the Waensee WIN us
clear deep waters, its gracefully eurvlng shoIe
lines and its boh encircling mountains is to DC re-
Garded as a good second to Lake Lucerne hhe
Wabensee prides itself on the great inducements
which il offers to fishing EXCURSIONS. Ana justly
True, the fisherman hS,Iing in the Walensee rarely
catches any fish. But if he brings nome notlng
on his string be does much better. Just as ~ Is
not the whole Of life to live. is not the WnOe Oh
fishing on the Wslensee TO fish. The Shli'lng,
shimmering shadows, the changing hues oil the
lake, the castellated SUBMITS of the seven SISTER
peaks the blending shades Of living green on tIie
mountain Sides the glistening snOwcrOwns OF GIle
remote ranges, the musical tinkIe or the goat peiS
the flap OF the swans wings; the alluring Iaugn o
the MurtschenstOcl's tumbling casc?des-Jhebe
things 90 TO the making of a catch which in the
opinion of the fisherman whose head is truly ieHei
more than compensates for the fine string OF hsh
which he doesn't catch. Weesen is Just the pace
for person whose purpose it is to loaf ana IN
wife his soul" 1t gives him rest ana trahqulIiuy,
1t does not spur him to do anything. IL IS iree
from the temptations when Tehuer shg t ~ 60
cinating but fatiguing. Weesen has neither pct
ure gallery library, geological gardeni nan Oh
sculpture, palace, nor roinahtlo IL: oS ~
even an anatomical collection. AT Weesen, as the
dude in the play described life as leo III Ills clup,
one lust stays" Tennyson in singing the praises
of his serene and imperial Eleanor, asserts that
there is nothing sudden about her. Ihat Is
why Wecsen resembles Eleanor L never taTled
at a less sudden place. Weesen IS altogether too
unambitious ever to have set up motto for her
self but you cannot abide there half an hour WIN,
out realizing that the little village is dominated
by the conviction that there is no JOY but calm
Very little trade is carried on at Neesen, and such
as there is is free from hustle. The Weesen shop
keeper does not wait for customers; on the con-
trary customers wait for the Weesen shopkeeper
You 90 to the candy store or the store where no.
tions are sod for example only to find that It's
stores bell and the proprietor, who lives over the
shop presently answers it, lets you in and wants to
know with a bow and smile what he can do for
YOU Having made your purchase and left the
store the proprietor locks the door behind you and
returns to the bosom of his family up stairs
That's Weesen on the Walensee. w. ii. McE.