Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-08
bnthuSes Over People, Noun
tainSr Valleys, Streams and
Quaint Customs Found Mo-
where Else In World.
LURE FOR TOURISTS is
BEYOND COMPARISON
Northern Region of Western
Europe Has Lessons in
Economy Education and
Simplicity of Living,
UBy James oDonncu BcnneuJ
tGopyfight, 1915, by tine Chicago
Tribune)

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lfluuhe
bergen, Norway July 7l have
not seen great deal of Norway, but
lh both town and country have seen
enough TO make me fan I'm love with
H.
Inc mass of Americans must be,
as ! was until a fortnight ago. ignor-
ant of it's charm Otherwise there
would be a host of us over here every
summer especially this war summer,
when it is SO difficult to find in cen-
tral Europe q place for "a holiday MAX
ing that is both safe and alluring.
The passage from our shores to
Norway rs cheap-$S0. ] believe, ON "a
good boat from New York To BERGEN
and not So long as to be tedious
The compelling charm of Norway
Hes In the fact that the further you
go the more beautiful and wonderful
the land seems to become. OF course,
the truth is that this charm lies in
the variety of the scene. You get the
mountains and you get the sea: you
get the wild and precipitous and YOU
get the gently pastoral. and some
times YOU get the four combined in
one prospert.
Ifquant Country.
And If YOU can imagine Il New Eng
land fishing village touched with
medieYalism-a picture nobody can
imagine-you have a hint of some OF
the extraordinarily piduant contrasts
certain of the ancient west coast
towns of Norway afford
In this country they build monu-
ments to road builders, and the road
builders deserve the tribute. They
have made accessible by climbs that
even a tenderfoot hardly feels. peaks
1000 on 5000 feet high.
Above this harbor of Bergen rises
old Bundemand To "a height Of 1000
feet, and the superb carriage road lead
ing TO The summit is so cleverN man
euvered along the lower slopes that
there is not step of The way when
the traveller making the ascent ON foot
for the first time is really put to it
for breath.
What thev say Of the townspeOple-
that they climb Rlndemand of a
Sunday morning to get an appetite for
Sunday dinners literally true Last
Sunday ] made the climb I'm the aft
ernoou with my companion i'm this in
terlude to war correspondencc. and all
ina WAY llD We met fTGOUS OF Bows and
girls and old men. and even little chill
dron who had gone from the glorious
summer weather ian the valley to tho
SUBMITS where the SNOW was folliup.
and who were making "A singing return
TO the town.
Costumes of Girls
The girls wore short skirts. and
their r,iclf hair buno i'm braids below
The waist gorne bad "a tnuob Of tho
ancient and extremely graceful native
costume I'm their dress euch as a scar
Iet bodice front enhroiderad with
heads buf most vero dressed solely
with an eVo "a comfort op a davis
tramp-stout walking shoes short
skirts ana warm Jackets
An wore hatlpss Mann, nf mo bovs
carried guitars or accordfnne ana saup
the plaintive swinging airs of the
north songs tbat incline tbe listener
to plaintive mrsinp and vot becanse
thew stir the imapinatiop nroduco "a
certain evbilaratlon
The peopIe ola ana voung moved
placidlv olong naus{,e freo,,artiv m
feost unon th@ nroenect wbicb 81 urn
of tbo road or m onening or,or,, tbe
troee affordod Nbove them M nom
tains vore toucbod win enou, and "a
bpht miet maj boId tho tbroat or rain
hing over Inc remote nealfs
Pelou, tben, uas rodiont sunsbtno
ana perpen eirdlod IN, tito,,in walls
NJ oreon ana @ranite ia, ebir,n,erinr
a. tbo erd ~ Tho harbor. trulv ehi,n-
n'erinp for ina bIocl, roofinp tiIes|
eae,, ,,evar T., lose tbair ploee ana in
sorne iights tho otd ttanseotic ra,n-
roercial stronehotd has tbo annearanco
~ ~ toU,n freehiv ebellaced
Charorteristics ~ Rcroon
on fhe broad watlrs anrIosino, the
tc,u,n narIr Rerpen vas toiring tsI
nrnn,epade bergen 10 a1vavs moro
ar loss on nror,enade when tbe u,aatb-
IN, ie bripbt INT irreqnertivo of tbe
Weather Il goes nra,oaradino In the
oftorrnon From, o'ctool, 10 3 and I'm
the evening from a. & win formal