Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-09-11
WALKING TRIPS
THROUGH Norway
N. Tjenagel Of Scott Township Has
Written Delightful Little
Volume.


book by N. Tjernagel of Scott town
ship, found its way to this office
lately and pleased the reader with
its unaffected and simple sketches,
wholly delightful, descriptive of a
recent visit to the land of the auth
or's forebears The Tjernagel fam
lily are famed in their part of the
county for the fine music of a, fam
lily orchestra. Aside from their abil-
ity as musicians, they are most sue
cessful and thoroughly modern agri-
culturists, altogether family well
educated to enjoy fully the real
meaning of life.
Each chapter, of MI. Tjernagels
interesting book is brief narrative
of experiences and pleasures met
with during various excursions un-
der the titles of Roadside Rambles
Thrilling Experiences in the Noun
| tains, Mountain Sport and Great
Climb, The Wonders of the Water
falls, Moster Island and Mount Sig
gen, BY Steamer to Haugeslund, and
many others, equally promising.
Photographic and pen >sketches ap-
pear frequently to enliven the pages
of the we'll edited volume.
''In the heart of Norway" the
opening chapter, pictures the trav-
eler's arrival at Fagerness, Valdres,
the terminal of funny little rail
way over which two trains come
putting daily across the mountains
from Christiania, in search of the
| ancestral place "Follinglo." which is
revealed at sudden turn nesting
ever SO snugly on the other side OF
the ford. Perceptions hills, pict-
uresquely clad with spruce and fir
overhang the narrow stretch OF
soil grudgingly spared between sea
and mountains for the tiny Folling-
| 10 fields.
The house with ancient moss be-
tween the logs, placed there, no.
body knows how. many decades ago
| to keep the wind out has birch bark
on it's roof for shingles, with turf
laid thereon to hold them down.
The grass grows as green as you
please up there: and also little trees
that can find footing nowhere else
A sorry looking house, but the love:
", narrow ford with its mirror
like surface and miles of picturesque
length, together with the towering
peaks of the snow clad Johunheim
mountains seen in the distance, form
view fairly unsurpassed in grand
eur.
The smooth, even roads of Norway
make it pedestrians paradise. The
splendid highways, running through
lovely scenery, attract numerous
pleasure seekers of various kinds, of
whom many are dependent upon
their own legs for loconlotion.
In the harvest fields Coat and
barley the whole family help. The
mowers attack the timothy and Glow
err fields with their scythes, picking
up the hay with their hands and
hanging it upon rails one above an
other to dry. In spite Of their slow
moving propensities the people
have neatly kept farms and homes,
and though their progress it tor
toise-like, they get there at last.
unworried and, generally, in sound
condition. The women are seen ev-
erywhere. even at the polls
From the so-called portal of Jo-
tunheim at the very edge of Tyinn
lake the ascent of Galhopiggen was
begun and after well-pigh inter-
minable climb over moss banks and
other banks, spitefui little noun
tain brooklets, ancient snowbeds
that sounded hollow under the
tread, acres of loose rocks and
boulders, where the water Kissed be-
tween, and where missteps and
tricky stones nearly sent the wan
derer sprawling all this. and
more besides. the summit was gain
ed. Soon the clouds obligingly part
ed, enabling the setting sun to seat
ter his dying rays profusely about,
enhancing the wonders of the scene
spread out to gaze upon.
From the authors delightfully."-
written tales can be obtained a
fairly accurate idea of the people,
the customs. the manners, the topo-
graphy of the Northland, the north
east corner of the world.
WANTED -- several bushels ripe
wild grapes. F. L. Brown, skate
factory. 5d3fl
To Deming, N. NJ.