Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-08-22

papermen and their wives are at
tending the seventh anniversary
meeting Of the Eastern Idaho Press
club. Had the executive committee
OF the organization gone through an
atlas of the world with tine-toothed
comb, there could not have been
found a more beautiful spot for such
gathering.
Bear Lake is turquoise island in
an emerald sea- 1t is OF the most
wonderful and indescribably green
ish-blne. Encircling it are hills
abrupt and barren on the east; grace
fully sloping and gorgeously green Oh
the west. Its northern end is a gl-
gantic swamp-Mud lake-home of
myriad water fowl. The bald escarp-
monts of the eastern shore roll down
ward to the waters edge like mon
ster pillows. From lake marge TO
timber line on the west is spread out
titanic cheekerboard--dry farms IN
green and gold, with immense patches
of uneultivated ground ON which the
mellow sunbeams play at hide and
seek.
There are many beauty spots in
Idaho. Northern Idahoans rave over
Pend d'OrielIe and Lake coeur
d d'Alene. Over HALEY way the folk
speak in superlatives of Fish lakes
and the Sawtooth range. Word
painters slather Payette lakes WITH
rainbow eolors. Few can restrain
gush after viewing Blue lakes ON
| Porrine' Snake river ranch. Yei-
lowstone tourists agree with Kipling
that the scenic park bankrupts the
English language. But for calm and
compelling beauty-the beauty not Of
maid, but of patron. not the beauty
of Auffed hair and slit skirts, but of
full-bosom and soul-deep eyes-that
is Bear Lake.
Some of these days the people of
Idaho-all Idaho-will realize that
way down yonder in the further
most southeastern corner of the
state, lies a beauty spot-beantiful
from every point Of view, for about
it and beneath it and below lie many
beautiful things. About it are val
leys, plains and peaks-valleys m0ie
fertile far than the tabled valley OF
the Nile; plains deep-carpeted with
lush meadow grass; peaks that Craze
the clouds and kiss The stars at night
Above il sweeps a eloudless sky a
beautifully blue as ever bent an azure
arch Ger a sunny Neopolitan bay
Beneath it = trailing serpentinels
north. west and then south-lies the
) valley of the Bear, dotted witt
towns, each bright jewel, and ma?
: ped out in straight lines of fences
r enclosing grain fields and lucerr
fields and orchards and berry vine
q yards. each fecund and kind.
= Ye weary and heavy laden-yet
who work the treadmill of business
during the dog days and sweat il
discomfort on city streets-hit the
Romany trail for while and max
Bear lake the objective. Camp a
J Fish Haven, on the lake short for .
week or a month; go bathing AM
0 boating; breathe the lake air in lung
e full draughts; sit by the hour am
S gaze across the wonderfully blue wa
If ter. Do that for a week and eve
J. the weariest misanthrope will lear
,e TO love his wife.
= From the skyline hills on the ives
comes down a breath Of twilight win
bearing on its wings the pungen
: odor Of wood smoke. fSome home
! builder up along the hillside is burn
u ing sagebrush and hewing out
Z farm Amid the clustered grove d
ss Fish Haven the tree-shadows length
ii ea; the poplars sigh as though
I memory of past pain and presen
T. sweet content: the lake change
OF slowly from turquoise 10 silver, wit
of moon-trail blazed across the watei
d plain: there is sense Of music
n the air as the sun in setting dips b.
- hind the western hills, with a tire
- day at its back.
But a night It takes TO clear Il
- brain Of business cobBebs; of worril
- about little things. of schemes to ia
d ten a bank balance. An evening {
the lake shore, with Her beside w
IN the twilight s benedictiOn. spong
from brain and heart all that Is n
ke good and leaves on content as thou.
1s- lnestling Ia mothers arms-dreamin