The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-08-13

IN tne lower valleys, spring holds the
heights for n long time yet. In q sense II never
leaves them. Even In August traces OF II finger
sweetly against the edges OF the snow.felds and
along the ever.sparkling pastures where the tree.
limo stops. When nature has grown SNUG and
lazy among the dust and heat below, one has only
to climb Il thousand feet or two TO recapture all
the lost brilliance OF May and early June. The
grass never seems to lose its vivid freshness. It's
emerald coloring: tho larches still clap their liz.
tie hands, so brightly gloved; the pines seem 10
have shaken on their snow only the day before.
And water runs everywhere. pouring IN countless
rivu'ets to feed tho bigger torrents down below.
spring never leaves the higher Alpine valleys.
Her cave Ia somewhere Just above tho tree.line.
She sings and dances there eternally.
II Is the habit more and more TO sheer n little
Mt Switzerland. She II n pretty. bourgeois state.
the people unpicturesque and rather sordid. n
mere nation OF hotelkeepers who exist to pick the
tourists pockets. She IL played out. vulgarized
hopelessly commonplace. Switzerland has no nj.
mosphere. no shading. no coloring but that OF
the ctfomograph order. The tourist agents run"
H. In this there lies n certain truth. Switzerland
~ n playground. and need not pretend tn be any.
thing else. There Ia little enough "atmosphero"
Tor artistic effects. and the coloring 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
and moister climates. And the people are bour.
gees, unpicturesque and unimaginatiye: though
provided they keep good hotels nj reasonable
priccs' tnere IL NOT mucn Iault To be found with
them on that score. The fortunate can AWAY.
go further afeld TO Dalmatia, Bosnia, tho Caucasu.
II they will. The big world offers endless yarIe,v
still to those who have the line and purse IN
measure II; but for tho majority stricter condi.
lions govern the selection OF travel routes, and for
these Switzerland must hold FIRST place for many
generations TO come.
And there are few places where condIt,ons ,ro
as sweet and clean and wholesome, as refresh,
ing. stimulating and pure as n high Alpine valley
with Its cozy. cheap hotels. In the early summer
months. Their contribution to the health OF Eu.
rope Is no negligible quantity. even II they con.
tribute to the ~dcathroll. too. Compared to many N
seaside resort, with It's dcmoralizlng Influences NJ
gambling. overdressing. artificial gaieties. to saw
nothing OF other undesirable elements such p,aces
favor and attract, these high Alpine valleys are IN
every way superior. But II must be added thai
one finds In places usually what one brings 10
them. a holiday becomes the reflection OF tho
mind that seeks II, and ugliness and cheapness IN
the heart fnd ugliness and cheapness also IN the
forests. mountains, flowers. and In the very nj.
mosphere, Scenery Is scenery. but the interpre.
tation IL OF the mind. In the last generation the
world has grown immeasurably more vulgar. Our
fathers were happy In Switzerland; our children
vote II dull, perhaps played out,
Changes have certainly come over II these last
twenty years. The little inns. where pensions