HOMES NEAR TO NATURE 



145 



Vol 



time 



V 



SEPTEMBER 1912 



Number 5 



"The Switzerland of America" 



BY EDWARD F. BIGELOW, Arcadia: Sound Beach, Conn. 



HERE is only one trouble 

 with the title, "The Swit- 

 zerland of America," when 

 applied to the Catskill 

 Mountains. It pays ton 

 great a compliment to 

 Switzerland. Rather let 

 us refer to Switzerland as the Catskill s 

 of Europe. That this is no hyperbole 



well as patriotism in the oft repeated 

 slogan of railroads and tourists, "See 

 America first." Too many people have 

 been perhaps not so much seeing things 

 abroad first, as the}' have been think- 

 ing of them as first in picturesqueness 

 and beauty. It is greatly to be ques- 

 tioned whether any place in Switzer- 

 land can equal the verdure clad hills 



IN THE SITTING ROOM OF "TREE TOPS. 



nor figure of speech will be acknowl- and valleys of the Catskill Mountains, 

 edged, I believe, by every patriotic Here is no sharpness of detail, but all 

 American. There is poetic truth as blends into a dreamy and hazy softness 



Copyright 1912 by The Agassiz Association, Arcadia: Sound Beach, Conn. 



