Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-11
STEREoPT1CoN TALK FOR
 ART STUDENTS ASSOCIATION

The Norwich Art Students Associa- tion held its October meeting Monday evening, in Slater hall annex. The pres ident Mrs Charming NJ. Huntington, opened the business meeting with a trib- ute to the late Mrs. Louisa G. Lane. Mrs. Robert W. Perkins reported for the program committee the enthusiastic appreciation by the entire community of the recent exhibition from Lyme and Mystic. The exhibition was mentioned nj the Boston Transcript and in several New York papers; if one may judge by the people who visited it, from Aca- deny students to people who drove n from outlying districts, it met a real need in the community life. The wor~ss of Mir. Hapekotte who policed the truc G 1 coming and going, hung the pictures ! and spent mest of ten days at the Com ] verse Gallery. was greatly appreciated. Miss Jane McCurdy reported the con 1 clusion of the associations work for French War orphans Five years ago the association adopted a girl, the child of an artist killed in the war. The orig 1 inal fund of s55 grew to over $900 and the association undertook the support I of two more children. Individual mem bers were interested to adopt children l privately and from this beginning start ed the idea of personal work in Ameri- ca for war orphans.
 i Mrs Frank Hampstead reported the l conclusion of arrangements for a course in interior decorating to be given by 1 Miss Shearer of Connecticut College The course will be held on the third Monday afternoon of January, Feb ruary March and April and will be open l only to members of the art association. 1 Miss Shearer plans to treat harmony l rhythm, balance and color in house dec l .oration and will bring illustrations and l examples, closing the series with the | encouragement of an actual room. Mem 1 bers of the association who care to join l were invited to hand their names to Mrs. Hempstead at once.
 The following new members were elected to the art association: Active member, Mrs. Frederick K. Sudlow; as-
 sociate members, Miss Isabel Noodle, Miss Mary Osgood, Mrs. James N. Bid ] well, Miss Sarah Tyler, Mrs. Allyn L. l Brown, Miss Lucille Crapo, Miss Eliza beth Collins, R. W. Perkins.
 I Following the business meeting Miss
 Hannah Crowell gave a most delightful talk, illustrated with the stereoptieon
 on A Summer Holiday in Europe.
 Every traveller misses something. sad
 Miss Crowell. and it would be well if we
 could have the hardihood of the young men who said, "No matter what you are asked about, remember you have seer , it." Our sightseeing this evening, shc
 continued, will begin at Lugano, arriv.
 ing over the St. Gosshard Pass from Lucerne. All the charms of sItalar l mountain scenery rise in spectacular
 grandeur behind the little villages alon. 2 ~the banks of the Lago Lugano. Guidt
 books call it "a miniature Naples viii
 it's wide curve of quays and San Sal r; vatori Tnasquerading as a small smoke
 less Vesuvius.. The Chateau of Trevand now the property of Louis Lombard. :, < one of the most Sumptuous private res
 idences in Italy, an entire village havin. :, teen removed to make place for it U eighty acres of woodland, gardens an, : grottoes.
 n it Milan, under the blinding glare o
 tho" summer sun. you welcome a refrg in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele wher
 you may shop all day in comfort undo. n it's octagon roof crowned at a height c d 160 feet with a glass cnpola. The Mila. s Cathedral of white marble with it's hun ' dreds of Gothic spires and more tha k two thousand statues and ornament t. dwarfs by its vast space wershipper -- and religious forms. No visitor, to NJ y Ian but makes pilgrimage to the churc {. of Santa Maria della Grazie to see th e Last Supper, by. Leonardo da Win; r. painted on the wall of the Refectory ny way OI lSOla Be1ia@ln the Las
 Maggiore, once the summer residence { al Count Vitahano Borromeo, the travelt il comes through the Simplon Pass to Lax k Geneva with it's chain of sllrroundin t. resorts. A days ride gives near view l. of snow-capped mountains and glacier of hillsides topped with chalets and 7e,
 villages. Perched high above the lak
 "a straight line of houses with an impo ~ ing chateau at the end, lies Gruyere '. '. the most picturesque village of Switze " land. The castle, it's winding stal ,il leading under massive arches to Il ~os ~ Hall Of. Knights is perhaps the mo 'i carefully restored specimen of feudal a
 chitecture in Switzerland.
 n- A glimpse of Geneva with it's Cath ed dral of St. Pierre, where stands Jof IT. Calvin's chair, brings one to Inte E: laken. trust you do not share il al sentiments of an old lady ensconced "a comfortable chair in the Hotel vi
 -Junsfrau who said, "T'he othc
 have gone up the Jungfrau, but as f h. me, I don't want to hear of another Al
 let alone see one.' Lauberbrunne :" meaning Nothing but springs" is fl " key place to much of interest in il Id O'berland. Here the Staubhach lea
 9SO feet, believing the meadows a1
 trees near and far, and Trummelba = Falls, led by ethe glaciers of the Jun
 frau, thunCiers in five cascades throu:
 It's slippery gorge. A day in Grind,
 wald seems to bring you into the co,
 pany of the gods of all the mountains