Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1920-01-02

H " low that peace has come Swift
HAs zerland is busily preparing t.
assume her old place as tn,
favorite playground of the oil
world. The little Heiyetian republic
of proverbial beauty, and far more
beautiful still in the eyes of many
for as an angel of mercy has she
shown her real worth in the worlds
tragedy-is fairly trimming over with
attractions sought by lovers of the
medieval and quaint and curious, and
will now more than ever become a
joynlent, 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 5000 feet above sea level,
managed to have a season on linn
tied scale, and now that conditions are
once more becoming normal it is ex-
pected that the winter 1919-1920 will
see q 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 combna-
tons, the country appears now as
glorious symphony in 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
limpid 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
sociability has now come. Visits be-
tween friends and relatives are fire.
quently interchanged-by sleigh in the
case of the older set, and by ski in
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 Grisons 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-tiunks 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
keenly 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-
bogga1l and bobsleigh runs, ice Kinks,
thrilling ski-jump, 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,
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
rs swift PUSHES.
AS 10 summer over the lawn SO flies
he tennis ball over the ice in the game
If hockey Curriers' are frantically
sweeping their "stanes" toward the
coveted goal, and the unlimited diver
'ity OF gymkhana stunts offers con-
slant amusement for the players as
veil as for the onlookers.
The improved appliances for sport
have nearly Gus Led the
herdsmen's sleds, which
re now only occasionally used by
imid beginners. The up-to-date
ehicle is the so-calied skeleton, low, |
ard-lorg tohoggan, on which the rider
les eat, steering the craft with hands q
M feet.
Like an arrow 1t darts up to the
ced walls of the curves, and as the
ewildered spectator fearfully antici- q
a1s an accident, f1e toboggan shoots
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