Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-13

| the moated and lowered ruin Do yoi
| remember It, girls? How we climbed
to the top OF the richest old tower, jus
as party OF German students came in
| to the beautiful ruined courtyard below
so far below. And Kate was speeches,
with romantic and beautiful sentiment
| while Lule was all speech and chatter
and laughter from the same cause; anC
| then how Leah sang In her sweet younf
voice. my Ladys Bower to her wed
ded lover who looked at the singer viii
happy eyes; and then, the students be-
low hearing the faint echo of the mu
sic, began singing one of their own rol
| licking love songs, while their banC
| Numbered out an accompaniment, anC
one Of them jumped on the table undel
| the tree and made speech to the half
amused, half-shocked girls In the tur.
| reted windows above, with much ges
| ticulation, bowling, blowing kisses, ant
trying to coax some notice from the
| pretty faces 50 quickly withdrawn from
| his gaze?
All here 1t Is while we are talking
about II, and have hung myself hall
way out the window to catch every
glimpse of It's dark and rugged, ruined
beauty, until at last here Is Gottngeu
itself, and | want TO shake hands with
all the idlers on the platform and ask
them If they knew DR.. John or my other
dear children.
Then away, and / am still hanging
out the window against all law and
common sense, but to the intense de-
light of crowd OF small boys who set
UP roar as | whzz by them. And
then IL has all passed and we are fy-
ing away In the calm, sunny lovely af-
ternoon; and the road is positively lined
with villages, and castle-crowned hills.
They rise up, those hills, rocky and
precipit0us. many Of them, and lust
large enough to accommodate COM
fortably sized castle, as If nature knew
the needs of the feudal barons of those
terrible middle ages, and had provided
Tor them safe retreats from whence
they could sally out and rob and plum
der TO their hearts content.
And now we have reached Frankfurt,
that wealthy city Of wealthy bankers.
And here we tarry for the night to rest
and sleep, II is only glimpse of the
historical old freehold that we get, but
1t proves how beautiful a city
Wedlln ana art can faShion.
At noon we are again on our Journey:
and now we get glimpses of the Rhine
and again we pass the wooded hills and
pretty villages; late the afternoon be-
fore we began to pass the vineyards of
this lower Germany and remembered
how famous are the wines made upon
the slopes OF the Rhine river. SO the
vineyards follow us on the right ana
the left And at last we are at Basic.
the frontier of Switzerland.
Not much trouble with the custom
house here, for we are simply asked IL
we nave any spirits or tobacco, and
When we answer mo" there is a chalk
mark put on our valises and away we
go. Then no for Switzerland And 10.
mere are the mountains. Real, genuine.
sky-piercing mountains None OF your
European hills which are dignifed by
courtesy into mountains; but regular
Wasatch- BLOCKING giants they were; rls-
Ing one behind another ana blue and
May with distance and their own hon
est height, | cried out IN my soul for
JOY, for was starved for a sight of my
dear old Utah mountains.
And then here We're the Swiss chalets
with the oyerhanging roofs, and some
body on the platform of station Is
singing a yodle. And do look! There
Is u priest, with his cowl and gown,
roped about the waist and his shaver
head And there, do You see that wo-
man with her long Swiss apron, her V
shaped black velvet bodice, with the
white ohemlsette, and the silver breast
pins on each side, from which rows of
beads are suspended? Every row of
beads represents one pair OF linen
sheets and pillow slips, woven and spun
by her own clever fingers. These linen
treasures are her pride and her mar
rlage dover.
But bark, there Is the funny little
whistle, which is the guards
signal for the train to move on, and
with the funny little shril snort, sharp
and instantaneous, of the engine, we
roll swiftly on, and evening finds us at
Berne.
do not wonder now that | have been
to Switzerland why the Gospel has
taken so much deeper hold there, in
former times and now, according to the
population than II has in Germany,
France or Italy. There Is the solidty
OF the German, some Of the viyaclty OF
the French and all through 1t q sturdy
of thought and action
which makes fruitful soil for progress
and truth. There is no king to worship.
no class to obey. In fact, an American
finds much congenlal mental and spirit
uai atmosphere in these grand old Swiss
But time and space hurry me on: so
come along this bright dewy morning
and see this beautiful city OF the Bears.
For when the great founder of 1t Won
lered where TO begin his city the bears
all gathered on this Hill in the crook OF
The lovely Rhone river, and here the
city Of Berne was built Berne Is bear
IN Swiss.
Was ever anything more picturesque
Than this city on the hills, with its vine
Yards and villages creeping down the
steep hills TO the very rivers edge? |
And trees flowers. parks and lawns
everywhere With the snow crowned !
in the blue distance encir- |
ling all in a loving embrace.
What more can you ask for? Then |
,yer we hurry TO catch a peep at the |
lation's capitol or houses of parlla- |
nent; and they are 40 much like our |
'wn ut Washington, only. Of course on |
/ smaller scale, that we wonder whIh |
'opied after the other,
And once within the council cham |
Der, what should We md but a session |
II the great European International |
Press Union! Not the sort Of press |
inions we have In the United States, |
and you all, who are press people, |
Inow exactly what | mean, but |
meeting OF genuine editors Of the great |
st papers in Europe. The names Of |
hose present were OF the creme de Ia |
rene Of continental press representa-
ives. 1t was great and dgnified |
,ody, met together TO discuss interna-
ional questions. such as copyrights. an |
court of arbitration for |
,ress workers, and other live questions