Donald McLeish 



A SWISS MISS AXD HER PLAYMATE 



Her ancestors fought "the small battles of immortal memory" ; she, her parents, and her 

 descendants are to be hosts to the League of Nations. The Swiss Confederation, which 

 students of history characterize as "a well-nigh perfect union," suggests in its make-up the 

 possibilities for success of the new venture upon which the free nations of the world are enter- 

 ing. Its "twenty-five small States, differing from each other in nearly every point — religious, 

 political, social, industrial, physical, and linguistic — are so organized as to constitute a federa- 

 tion which maintains public welfare, individual rights, and general harmony" (see "The Races 

 of Europe," in The Geographic for December, 1918). 



