The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1914-07-24

heights for . long time yet In q sense II never
leavesxthem. Even in August traces of II linger
sweetly against the edges Of the snow-nelds and
along the eversparkling pastures where the tree
line 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 ali
the lost brilliance of May and early June The
grass never seems to lose its vivid freshness Its
emerald colorins the arches still clap their lit.
tie hands. SO brightly gloved: the pines seem to
have shaken of their snow only the day before
And water runs everywhere. pouring in countless
rNuiets to feed the bigger torrents down below
spring never leaves the higher Alpine valleys
her cave Is somewhere Just above the tree-line
She sings and dances there eternally
II is the habit more and more to speer n little
at switzerland She Is pretty, bourgeois state
the people unpicturesQue and rather sordid. a
mere nation Of hotelkeepers who exist to pick the
tourists pockets She is played out. vulgarized
hopeiessly commonplace. Switzerland has no A.
mosphere, no shading. coloring but that NJ
the chromograph order. The tourist agents run"
IT. In this there lies certain truth Switzerland
is playground. and need not pretend to he apy
thing else There Is little enough "atmospbere-
Tor artistic effects and the eoloring Is monotonous
repetition Of brilliant green meadows blue forest,
with white and black peaks that cut into azure
skies without soft shading as In Scotland, ireland
and moister climates. And the people are hour
eeo's unp,ctnresque and unimaginative: though
provided they keep good hotels at reasonable
prices. there IL not much fault to be foun6 MIR
them on that score. The fortunate ca. aIr,y.
% further afed to Dalmatia Bosnia, the C.uc..n.
VI they will. The big world offers endless yare,v
still TO those who have the time and nurse 90
measure II: but for the majority stricter cors,,
tons govern the selection OF travel routes and ,o,
these Switzerland must hold first place for NAM
generations to come.
And there are few places where conditions ara
as sweet and clean and wholesome as refresh
ing, stimulating and pure as a high Alpine valley
with its coy. cheap hotels, in the early summer
ynpnths. Their contribution to the health Of En-.
4s Is no negligible quantity, even II thew con.
tribute TO the deathroll. too Compared to many a
seaside resort, with its demoraIizng Influences n,
gambling over-dressing. artificial gaieties. to say
nothing OF other undesirable elements such pIace,
favor and attract. these high Alpine valleys are In
every way superior. But II must be added thar
one finds in places usually what one brings TO
them. holiday becomes the reflection OF the
mind that seeks Il, and, ugliness and cheapness In
the heart find uglness and cheapness also in the
forests, mountains. flowers. and In the very a,.
mosphere Scenery Is scenery. but the interpre-
tation is Of the mind In the last generation the
world has grown UNNECESSARILY more vulgar Our
fathers were happy in Switzerland: our children
vote IL dull. perhaps played out
Changes have certainly COD /Nyer II these last
twenty years. The little inns. where pensions