The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-05-02
Flu. Foote WriteS Interestingly
of Picturesque Alpine Country

The following interesting letter
from F. w. Foote to the directors of
the First-National Bank of Commerce,
was received Tuesday:
Copenhagen, April II, 1918.
My dear friends
Since | wrote you | have been
through France to Switzerland, Ger
many and Denmark. The journey
from Paris to Switzerland was about
ten hours, across a good agricultural
country, level until near the Alps.
spent the night at Berne land had
short ride about the city before leav-
ing the next morning. 1t is an inter-
esting little capital, surrounded by
snow-capped mountains and contain
tanning many bear pits. One sees
there bears in life, stone and picture,
all about what they signify, | failed
to learn. | then went to Interloken,
Lucerne and Zurich, stopping only a
short while at each place. The beau
ty and grandeur of the Alps have not
been exaggerated, and after a visit
there one appreciates why tourists go
to the Alps in preference to larger
and higher mountains. 1t is because
of the greater contrasts and the eX-
quisite beauty, the most extraordinary
mountain and valley formations. The
country is rife with many of the most
level valleys. They are small, but
usually unbroken by hills, and are per
fectly cultivated. l saw them as they
began to take on the coloring of spring
and as the lands were being turned
by the plow. The balmy opening Of
spring had called forth the fruit bios
som, and nature was at her best II
the beautiful valleys, so strongly sur
rounded by great mountains, quiet
made more so by the soft and down!
covering of snow ever there, and there
ever to remain to cause the strange
in their midst to stop and stare, ap
palled so to speak, as he gazes upol
the wonderful scene, "the half o
G which had not been told"
At Interloken, 1000 feet above tn
sea, stood the Jungfrau 1880 feet
- say 10000 feet before and above one
) One visiting the Rockies begins to as
h cend about the middle of Kansas, in
deed Kansas City is 1900 feet high
!. At Denver the altitude is 5000 feet
a at Maratau, where Pixies Peak is as
q cended the altitude is 5000 feet, tn
l.. mountain though 1880 feet high,
8 only visible, say $500 feet. That
/. the difference. In all other mountain
d | ever saw there were foothills fc
n miles, raising the altitude of one an
# destroying what would otherwise b
II far grander scenery. The mountain
Il are full of small waterfalls, one l sa
being 900 feet.
II One sees numbers of small house
A. on a mountain side, which he thinl
"a are places for summer visitors
small means, they appear so trim al
ID picturesque, but l learned they wei
h, full of COWS, often COWS and peopl
or The cows are kept up late in Il
re spring until all danger of chilly weat
er has passed, not being taken out fl
ii water even, when it is convenient
IN have water in the barns They mi
their COWS the year around, only lc
10, ing three days before calf is boz
y" and three days after, and they new
Up allow them to get the least chilled,
n they would give less milk and mig
lg go dry. The Swiss are splend
people, fine looking, refined and We
progressive, They only have 100
square miles of habitable country, b
vn they number 100000, and there ft
de who are not doing well from the Eul
so pean standpoint.
es I approached and traversed G.
al many with special interest. The fiji
of thing learned was that it is count
at where women have unlimited pri
i'll leges as regards work. They are
lily ing all kinds of work and most of
lsAnpther item of interest The OK