The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-08-06


heights for a long time yet. In a sense Il never
leaves them Even In August traces OF II linger
sweetly against the edges OF the snow.nelda and
along the eVer-sparkling pastures where the tree
ine stops When nature has grown SNUG and
lazy among the dust and heat below one has only
to climb thousand feet or two TO recapture all
the lost brilliance OF May and early June The
grass never seems to lose It's vivid freshness Its
emerald cooring the larches stlIl clap their liz.
tie hands. 40 brightly gloved. the pines seem TO
have shaken on their only the day before
Ana water runs everywhere. pouring In countless
fivulets to feed the bigger torrents down below
spring never leaves the higher Alpine valleys
Her cave Ia somewhere Just above the tree-line
She sings and dances there eternally
II is the habit more and more to sheer a lltt,o
~ Switzerland She Is pretty. bourgeois state
the people unpcturesque and rather sordid n
mere nation of hotelkeepers who exist to pick the
tourists pockets She is played out. vulgarzed
hopelessiy commonplace Switzerland has no nj.
mosphere no shading no coloring but that ~
the chromograph order The tourist agents "run"
H. In this there Hes certain truth Switzerland
v playground and need not pretend to be any.
thing else. There Ia little enough "atmosphere"
TOR artistic effects. and the coorug Is monotonous
repetition Of brilliant green meadows blue forests
with white and black peaks that cut into azure
skies without soft shading as In Scotland Ireland
ana moister climates And the people are bour.
geois, nnpioturesque and unimag lnatiye: thoupb
provided they keep good hotels nj reasonabia
prices. there IL not much fault TO be found win
them on that score. The fortunate can aIvavs
40 further aheid TO DaImata. Bosnia the Caucasus
II they viii. The big world offers endless variety
still to those who have the time and purge -
measure Il; but for the majority strcter co,d,
lions govern the selection OF travel routes and ,o
those Switzerland must hold first place for MAN.
generations to come.
And there are few places where conditions ara
as sweet and clean and wholesome. as refresh
ing, stimulating and pure as high Alpine valley
with Its coy, cheap hotels In the early sumroar
months Their contribution TO the health of En-
rope Ia no negligible quantity. even II thew con.
tribute TO the deathroll. too Compared 10 many n
seaside resort, with Its demoralizng influences ~
gambling over-dressng. artificial gaieties To sav
nothing Of other undesirable elements such plnces
favor and attract these high Alpine valleys are IN
every way superior Hut Il must be added thnt
ono nnds In places usually what one brings IN
them holiday becomes the reflection OF tho
mind that seeks IT, and ugliness and cheapness In
the heart ind ugliness and cheapness also In the
forests. mountains. flowers, and IN the very at
mosphere Scenery Is scenery but the lnterpre-
tation is OF the mind In the last generation the
world has grown immeasurably more vulgar Our
fathers were happy In Switzerland. our children
vote Il dull perhaps played out
Changes have certainly Il these last
twenty years, The little inns where pensions