The Connecticut labor press., 1920-01-10


 I assume her old place as the
 favorite playground of the old world. The little, Helvetian 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 brimming over with attractions sought by lovers of the medieval and quaint and curious, and will now more than ever become a haven of blissful 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 5000 feet above sea level. managed to have season" on Him. fted scale, and now that conditions are once more becoming normal it Is ex- pected that the winter 19191920 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 garbi To the newcomer it means a vision of paradise-to the habitue a coming home to a beloved haunt. Once mas ter study in artistic color combina- tfons, 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 ire quently interchanged-by sleigh in the case of the older set. md by ski in the case of the younger generation. Even some of the passes are quite an- imated, as winter is the time of the great transport of merchandise over 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-trunks fall cracking before the axe and hatchet, and the logs dart like arrows down snow-runs to the traffic beaten roads below.
 Nowhere on earth have the possi- 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- began and bobsleigh runs. ice rinks, 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 it's movements. | now astonishes by the cool daring of | it's swift rushes.
 As in summer over the lawn, so flies | the tennis ball over the ice in the game | of hockey. Curriers' are frantically | sweeping their "stanes" toward the | coveted goal, and the unlimited diver | sity of gymkhana stunts offers con