The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-10-17

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!; to get out OF Switzerland, he. can yod.
lie his:way around tho various vaude,
Vile circuits in. the. United States and
pick up fortune. / met one Swiss
here in front Of the hotel who could
outyodle anything j ever heard. He
has been saving up, his money to get
to the United States. He told me he
needed onlyN3O cents moro and then
he would have enough. gave him
the thirty. know his story Is true
for he told 1t to seven other persons
4 within five minutes and told 1t tho
j same every time.
/ The Swiss bell ringer ) Is rapidly
going out OF style. and this is. q good
Ething;$for he should never have hap
pened in the first place. There Is
only one worse form OF music than
yodling and that Is bell ringing. and,
being worse than yodllng, bell ring,
ing issnot for civilization toslisten to;
/ Once 'lhl a while you run shcross a!
j,troupe ottthe Swiss bell ringers sar}
] church leStWe course In Some 3eXk|
towi1s I'm. afnhrica. sTheE!fised Is bel
as prevalent as the microbes and Bel
! giSn hares. h, ~ 3
4 The fame OF Switzerland. Is; based
mainly upon her cheese. A good, ac'
tive Swiss cheese Is a great adver-
tiser. You always know when 1t is
|abput, for. it never hides It's odortun.
y der q bnshel. Whenever you become
aware Of the presence Of forty-horse1
fpower, \ six-cylinder, 4 self.startlng
cheese, you gIimme diately think Of
Switzerland and wish that the cheese
| had stayed at home But the Swiss
! cheese does not bother the Swiss
people very much, for the reason that
most of the genuine imported Swiss
cheese is made in Cincinnati and NIL.
waukee.t There is q rule in Switzer-
: land that the best Swiss cheese has
1.-THE. largest holes in 1t. got a Swiss
cheese sandwich at the hotel here
i last night. The, cheese was the fln-
est grade. so perfect in fact that there
was nothing to It but the hole. $,yS
: The moving picture film business
!, Is one Of .Switzerland's greatest as,
: scts. There is no person in the world
excepting possibly the Swiss, them.
:, selves. who has not ridden up and
i down Swiss mountains and. through
long tunnels on rapidly moving rail
road trains. The putting engine al
ways sounds as though some one were
, pounding on the head OF a brass drum
, with timber switch and the escap.
!, Ing steam sounds just as though
somebody were rubbing two pieces of
, sandpaper together. and strangely
enough, that is exactly what happens,
II don't believe that anybody ever
rode on Swiss train but the men.
, who operate the moving picture ma;
chimes. There couldn't be. room for
anybody else. Every moving picture.
show ever saw has had a train trip
through Switzerland In It somewhere
Tho best parts OF these trips are the
tunnels. Some Of these tunnels aref
very long and to Illustrate this Will
say that not so very long ago l ati
tended n moving picture show on;
Forty.second street in New York and;
the first thing pulled OF the reel was
a trip through Switzerland. We hail
been going on our jiggy, eye.racking
way about three minutes when we
entered tunnel and whole house
was as dark as a pocket We kept
| on In this tunnel for about iwcntyi
minutes. The trap drummer stuck tot
his post and made! steam and all OF
| the other necessary noises. = !,
i After We had travelled apparently
about three thousand miles through
the tunnel and were ready to eat any
thing from q shredded wheat biscuit
to.a fur rug, one man In tohe audience
grew impatient and said audibly:
This is a --z.ii-- Of n trip through
Switzerland: We can't see no seen.
cry" ls{ q, y
The gentlemanly manager spoke
from. somewhere In the Stygian dark.
ness and said: Eve are still In the |
tunnel. This ladies and gentlemen, IS
the longest. tunnel in Switzerland.
The snare drummer kept up the de.
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