Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-02-03
FINE SCENERY AND BAD COLDS
A Feature OF the Glaciers Mt GriudeI-
wald that the Guide Books Omit.

| A Feature OF the Glaciers Mt GrindeI-
wald that the Guide Books Omit.
From the New York sun.
Europe is full of all sorts of devices for
endangering and undermining the health
of travellers. The big buildings, churches,
palaces and the like where the huge en-
closure keeps the temperature of the air
at the same cool level all the year round
have caused sickness and death without
number. For travellers coming into them
from the heat of the summer day without
do not think that this agreeable GOODNESS
means sudden and unheslthful reduction
of the temperature of the body until chill
or a succession of sueezes tells them that
the mischief is done.
But there is one place which is response
bic for more sickness than any score
of large buildings. The glaciers at Grin
delws!d, especially the large upper glacier,
Is this danger-lsden spot. Nearly every
one who goes to Switzerland, and that
means nearly every one who travels In
Europe, goes to see the glaciers at Grin
delvsld, although few, indeed, do not re-
greet having gone, because the difficulties
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rather disappointing scenic effects And
nearly sll who go carry away with them q
cold which may pass away, and, agar, may
make them iDger at Interlsken TO curse
the day they ventured TO Grindelwald
The glacier Is an hours walk or horse
back ride up q steep and winding mount
ain road, narrowly shut in bscause of the
encroRching mountain farms on either
side. II You have gone horseback they &c:
1nxru az a r,.n- al E.,,, =.
pavilion overlooking the valley of the
glacier with tie vistas of perfect Swiss
scenery. Then one goes through a gate
snd walks down a winding rosd, arched
with trees, crosses a stony valley, through
the midst of which rushes clear, pure,
Ice cold stream, fresh from the base of the
glacier which the summer sun is melting.
The glacier ia before you, chilling the air
which was of summer heat q few yards
away.
You must have walked down to 1t, be-
cause there Is no other way, and You are
therefore heated. You stand near the
glacier and instantly you are cool Per-
hsps you go into the ice cavern, for the
wonderful colors of the hewn ice are tempt
ing. Ice water is dripping upon you and
your feet are soon soaked from the wet
boards underneath. You go out again and
start away, and before you have again
reached the little gate near the inn You
find that You hsye the worst cold you ever
had in your life. IL you are over suscept-
IDLE, you will have chills and fever.
But 1t is not necessary to go down to-the
glacier. You may have heard OF taese
perils. So you decide to view 1t from sfsr.
You sit in u little Pavilion with the superb
panorama before, above and beneath you,
with the long, striated back of the serpent
like glacier and the stream gnEhing from
it's icy jaws as the the central point of your
landscape. You order something TO eat and
bottle of wine, and life seems to be an
extraordinary good thing. For all around
you is summer, hot, intense. luxuriant,
while above you and down in the valley
there Is winter, eternal winter of snow and
ice. But a. you sit enjoying, revealing even,
blissfully unconscious of danger, you be-
gin to feel an 10y chill, gentle snd pleasing
at fret, but gradually increasing until you
look about for furs, and then take TO fight
with bad cold pushing surfsceward with
in you as a momento of the glaciers. OFF
that huge river OF ice blows a wind that lie
always wintry, that is felt in it's full in
tensity mile away through the heat of the
hottest Summer day You may escape the
wiles Of the score of curio vendors urging
you tn take away a carving or something
of that kind as a momento of Grindelwsld's
glaciers. But the chances are you will not
escape that unpleasant or perhaps danger
Gus little menIento In the shape Of a cold
which the glscier will force upon you.