Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-01-02

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Il V assume her old place as the
favorite playground of the old
world. The little Helyetian republic
of proverbial beauty, and far more
beautiful still in the eyes of many
for as an angel of mercy has she
tragedy--is fairly brimming over with
attractions sought by lovers of the
medieval and quaint and curious. and
| will now more than ever become a
haven of blissfuI rest and healthful en-
| joyment writes Marie Widmer in the
| New York Herald.
During the last five winters, In spite
of the war. the numerous winter sport
resorts tucked away in all those lovely
spots over 1900 feet above sea level,
| managed to nave season" on a linn
| tied scale. and now that conditions are
once more becoming normal 1t is ex-
pected that the winter 1919-1920 will
see great many visitors flock to that
snowclad Alpine land. which. although
| In the midst of that fierce turmoil, has
remained intact.
Switzerland in her winter garb To
| the newcomer it means a vision of
paradise-to the habitue a coming
home to beloved haunt. Once. mas
| ter study In artistic color combina-
tions, the country appears now as a
glorious symphony i'll white. Jack
Frost has imprinted a silencing kiss
upon the babbling lips of every tiny
brook and mountain stream and glis-
| tening sheets of ice cover also the
lsmpid blue eyes of ponds and Alpine
| lakes Ice and snow everywhere and
above a glorious expanse of deep blue
sky The air itself seems to have gain
ed some new miraculous qualities and
faces which yesterday looked weary
and tired have a cheerful and ener-
| getic expression today.
Land of Winter Sports.
For the natives the time of pleasant
sociabillty mas now come. Visits be-
tween friends and relatives are fire.
| Quently interehanged-by sleigh in the
the case of the younger generation.
Even some of the passes are quite an
mated. as winter is the time of the
| great transport of merchandise over
mountains, such as the Veltiner wines
/ In the case of the Grsons From the
high lying pastures they slide down to
| the valley the hay which had been
stored in the picturesque huts. and
| the woodcutters, in their turn, are
busy in the high forest. The proud
tree-frunks fall cracking before the
axe and Ratchet. and the logs dart like
/ arrows down snow-runs to the traffic
beaten roads below.
Nowhere on earth have the posi-
bilities of winter sport been more
keeniy realized than In Switzerland,
and that is why we find in this small
land such a great choice of resorts
which possess scientifically laid out to-
boggan and bobsleigh runs. ice Kinks,
thrilling ski-iump, etc,
Very soon we find everybody inter-
ested and engaged in some form of
winter sport. There is skating, of
course. but many games compete now
with this oldest of sports on the ice
i which has, however, been developed
into an art which charms the onlooker
BY the gracefulness of its movements,
now astonishes by the cool daring of
its swift rushes.
AS in summer over the lawn, so flies
i the tennis ball over the ice in the game
Of hockey. Curriers' are franticaIly
sweeping their 'stanes' toward the
coveted goal and the unlimited diver
sity of gynkhana stunts offers CON
slant amusement for the players as
well as for the onlookers.
| The improved appliances for sport
requirements have nearly ousted she
oid-fashioned herdsmen's sleds. which
are now only occasionally used by
timid beginners. The up,to-date
vehicle is the so-ealled skeleton, a low,
ryard-long toboggan. on which the rider
lies fiat, steering the craft with hands
and feet,
Like an arrow it darts up to the
iced walls of the curves. and as the
hewildesed spectator fearfully antici-
pates an accident, the toboggan shoots
down into the furr0w and around a
beautifully shaped curve.