Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-02
Geographic News
Bulletins By the
National Geographic Society
Lausanne

Lausanne
Mention Swiss cities and several
others han Lausanne come first
into mind; but the products of none
are more commonly at hand among
Americans than those of the town
where the Near East peace confer
enc will meet" says a bulletin
from the National Geographic
Society's Washington, D. c., head
quarters.
Look over the shelves of a gro-
Gerry store and prominently dis
played on the shelf of condensed
milk you are almost sure to find a
variety made at Lausanne.
Scan the confectioner's counter
in any drug store n there in black
paper and silvery foil will be a milk
chocolate made at Vevy, not far
away, and probably shipped via
Lausanne.
IAN inevitable mental morsel of
a public library is Gibbons Rome
and the last three volumes of that
work were penned at Lausanne.
When Mansard Built His Own Roof
stroll along the main street of
an American town that dates back
to Colonial days, Or among the for
sale signs of your city's newest
suburb, and vol are likely to note
a Mansard roof-invention of the
French Francois Mansard. whose
fame is enhanced by a beautiful
| chateau In the vicinity of Lausanne.
Lausanne is the all-year-round
hostess city Of Switzerland. In 1910,
by count, nearly one-fourth Of the
, other countries tnan Switzerland.
And in 1922, by estimate, this pro-
portion has been restored despite
| the wars disturbance,
From Lake Geneva the other
part Of the city especially is striking,
| trailing the crests of five ribbed hills,
which are the lower slopes of Mount
Jorat, with the Cathedral of Notre
Dame, the finest medieval church
edifice of Switzerland, easily the
most conspicuous feature.
From the Signal, whence many
a writer has painted word pictures
of the lakeside city, the y again
catches the massive bulk of the
Gothic cathedral, sweeps red-roofed
houses. rebels at the factories of the
newer town to the south and west,
but is captivated by the expanse of
the lakes blue waters across which
the tagged teeth of the Savoy
mountains bite into the sky
THE luster of famous names
clings chiefly to the university build
ings. Though the institution did
not achieve a formal university
status until 1891, it has been fam
Gus since its founding. in 1884, the
year after Bern took over the con-
troll OF Lausanne. Previously, it had
been said, Lausanne lay dormant at
the base of its many churches The
tide OF the reformation swept in
with the Bernesa affiliation. A
school was needed to train young
preachers quickly to spread Protest.
ant doctrine.
THUS Pierre Viret. a tailor's son,
became the John Harvard of Laus-
anne. Then came Conrad Gesner,
whose fame rests on a solid pedestal
OF o than three-score works in
science, ranging from philology1to
botany. Overlapping this prodigious
research was. his enumeration of
some 500 plants not hitherto rec
orded. Most humanity appealing Of
these early scholars was Theodore
Beza, who graduated from the adj
ventures Of a cavalier, a sort of me-
dieval man about town. and for
sock the writing of sprightly and
| risque verses for the chair of Greek
| and morals at Lausanne. Then he
turned his pen to Biblical dramas
before he went to Geneva to be CAL
WINS chief aide.
1.-THE Simplon tunnel assures
Lausanne's future. The city now
lies along the main rail route, from
Paris to Milan"