Switzerland as described by great writers (1912) (14576924018)

Identifier: switzerlandasdes01sing (find matches)
Title: Switzerland as described by great writers
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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bedrooms. Above these, under the roof, is astoreroom for dried provisions, and other objects. Theliving apartments are often handsomely pmnelled, and thewalls adorned with pictures of saints, or of favourite clergy.A clock (from the Black Forest) is generally to be found,and the holy-water vase by the door is never wanting. Thegarden by the house is planted with old-fashioned, butfavourite flowers, and on the front of the house a pear tree,and in the warmer districts sometimes a vine is trained upto the roof. Between the windows is not unfrequently seena fresco, which in Obwald is generally that of the saintedNicholas von der Flue. Sometimes, especially in CantonUri, the windows are so close together as to occupy almostthe whole side of the house. The shutters are then madeto slide into an opening in the woodwork below. Aboveeach row of windows, at the ends of the house, run smallseparate roofs, as a protection in stormy weather. The houses in Unterwalden are distinguished for clean-
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CO ^ CO << CO < MANNERS AND CUSTOMS 301 liness above the other Cantons. In this respect CantonUri ranks the lowest, the houses in the Reussthal and Ur-seren being often smoke-blaclcened and dirty, though they arecleaner in the communes which are on the Lake of Lucerne. In the hill part of Canton Lucerne are often found houseswhich are protected from the weather on the exposed sidesby rows of small shingles, rounded at the end, and overlap-ping each other. In Canton Uri there is often attached to the ceiling of theliving-room, above the table, a movable wooden rod, or awooden chain, from which the lamp is suspended; and inthe middle room, depending by a string from the ceiling, isa rude figure of a dove, representing the third person of theTrinity. In a country like Switzerland, where the breeding of cat-tle is so extensively carried on, it might be expected thatmeat would be extensively and commonly used. But it isnot so, except in the towns. While many use but li