Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1908 — SHIVERY WINTER RESORT. [ARTICLE]

SHIVERY WINTER RESORT.

Switzerland a Rival of the Riviera, Egypt and the Canaries. Switzerland Is coming to be a very popular winter resort, says the New York Times. Thousands go from England, Germany, Russia and the north of France to the Riviera, Egypt, Algiers, the Canary Islands and other southern resorts to escape the rigors of their home winters; just as the well-to-do New Yorkers run to the warm places In the Southern States to avoid the snow and ice and shivers of the New York winter months. From the North to the South Is the rule in winter and has been the rule for generations back. But there are those who, when the time comes arouXd for their winter holidays, Instead of going Into the lands of straw hats and shirt waists, buy tickets for Switzerland and spend their vacations in that country of snow and ice. How many come to Switzerland to enjoy the winter sports and to seek health in its frost-laden air it is Impossible to state even approximately; but there are a number of districts in the country that annually swarm with foreign visitors and the influx each year is far greater than the previous year. . With young Englishmen and English girls, who are great lovers of outdoor life and sports, winter Switzerland is extremely popular. These young subjects of King Edward are to be seen at all the ice carnivals, on all the bobsled courses and at all the ski races, eager competitors and enthusiastic partisans of the candidates for the prizes. But they do not have the country to themselves. Young folk from Germany, France and even Italy are there to mingle with them socially. The number of health seekers who visit Switzerland In winter Is also large. Persons suffering from debility, anaemia, asthma, pleurisy and bronchial troubles derive great benefit from the Swigs winter air, which, while it Is cold, is exceedingly dry, so that in the sharpest days invalids may sit outdoors in the sun. --