Book/Printed Material Happy homes in foreign lands,
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Image 1 of Happy homes in foreign lands,- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 2 of Happy homes in foreign lands,- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 3 of Happy homes in foreign lands,- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 4 of Happy homes in foreign lands,- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 5 of Happy homes in foreign lands,- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 6 of Happy homes in foreign lands,- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 7 of Happy homes in foreign lands,- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 9 of Happy homes in foreign lands, HAPPY HOMES IN FOREIGN LANDS- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 13 of Happy homes in foreign lands, HAPPY HOMES IN FOREIGN LANDS BY a: A. METHLEY, F.R.G.S. LLUSTRATED BY W. H. HOLLOWAY NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS {Printed in Great Britain)- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 14 of Happy homes in foreign lands, Gift PubliRfe«f 0 i 4- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 15 of Happy homes in foreign lands, CONTENTS CHAPTER I. STRANGE HOMES IN EUROPE PA.OK 1 II. STRANGE HOMES IN AFRICA 11 III. THE ANTIPODES 22 IV. AMERICA 32 V. ASIA _ 43 VI. CHINA AND JAPAN 53 VII....- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 16 of Happy homes in foreign lands, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAOB SWISS chAlet 2 SWISS MOUNTAIN HUT 4 ANCIENT HOUSE IN POMPEII 5 VENETIAN PALACE _ 6 RUSSIAN peasant’s HUT 9 BEEHIVE HUTS OF THE KAMEROONS 12 IN ALGERIA...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 17 of Happy homes in foreign lands, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii AMONG THE PUEBLOS PAGE 38 MOSQUITO-PROOF HOUSE, PANAMA 41 BALCONIED HOUSE, BAGDAD 44 COURTYARD OF A PERSIAN HOUSE 47 ON THE TURKESTAN FRONTIER 48 THE AFGHAN BORDER 49...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 18 of Happy homes in foreign lands, VUl LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FAOl DUTCH BARGE 86 ARAB TENTS 88 BOER WAGGON 89 SIBERIAN NOMADS 90 HOUSES OF SUN-BAKED MUD 95 A NURSERY AT THEBES, UPPER EGYPT 96 EGYPTIAN VILLAGE AND...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 19 of Happy homes in foreign lands, HAPPY HOMES IN FOREIGN LANDS CHAPTER I STRANGE HOMES IN EUROPE npHERE’S no place like Home.” We all I know the words of the old song, and, although of course every English...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 20 of Happy homes in foreign lands, 2 HOMES m FOREIGN LANDS flower-filled balconies, they are very picturesque and well suited to their wonderful surroundings. Indeed, so new and spick-and-span are many of these little wooden houses, that they...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 21 of Happy homes in foreign lands, STRANGE HOMES IN EUROPE 3 suited to the storms and frosts of a Swiss winter, but in reality they are very strongly built. The snow slips easily from the high-pitched roof, its...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 22 of Happy homes in foreign lands, 4 HOMES IN FOREIGN LANDS glaciers, are very beautiful, they are dangerous neighbours, for masses of snow, or avalanches, often become loosened by the heat of the sun, and sweep down into...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 23 of Happy homes in foreign lands, STRANGE HOMES IN EUROPE 5 ties and its dangers, and go south into Italy, travel¬ ling across mountain passes, through cities, and along the shores of lakes, until at last we come...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 24 of Happy homes in foreign lands, 6 HOMES IN FOREIGN LANDS The Neapolitan peasants, instead of living in low wooden cottages, usually inhabit tall, strongly VENETIAN PALACE. built houses in narrow streets. Some of these houses are many...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 25 of Happy homes in foreign lands, STRANGE HOMES IN EUROPE 7 to mount steep flights of stairs before their homes are reached. As may be imagined, the women cannot spare time to be running up and down stairs...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 26 of Happy homes in foreign lands, 8 HOMES IN FOREIGN LANDS at night the red glow of its lava streams may be seen. The inhabitants of the city are thus reminded of the terrible eruptions which have taken...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 27 of Happy homes in foreign lands, STRANGE HOMES IN EUROPE 9 ing to see their houses, in many of which there are statues and fountains, while beautiful pictures decorate the walls. In one place there is a baker’s...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 28 of Happy homes in foreign lands, 10 HOMES IN FOREIGN LANDS There are many other strange homes in Europe, such as the old Venetian houses, whose marble steps lead down into canals instead of into streets, the Russian...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 29 of Happy homes in foreign lands, CHAPTER II STRANGE HOMES IN AFRICA RICA is a very large country, and in it we find many different kinds of homes, from the flat-roofed houses of the North to the quaint...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 30 of Happy homes in foreign lands, 12 HOMES IN FOREIGN LANDS Goats and fowls are often taken up on to these roof homes, and it is strange to look down on to a North African town from a...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 31 of Happy homes in foreign lands, STRANGE HOMES IN AFRICA 13 on the counter among his wares, praising them and chattering noisily as he bargains with intend¬ ing customers. IN ALGERIA. Sometimes these stalls are also workshops, and...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 32 of Happy homes in foreign lands, 14 HOMES IN FOREIGN LANDS making the round felt caps that are worn by the Arab men and boys. ON THE HOUSE-TOP, NORTH AFRICA. Very curious wares may be seen exhibited in...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 33 of Happy homes in foreign lands, STRANGE HOMES IN AFRICA 15 It is quite usual to see exposed for sale piles of dried locusts, live lizards, and all kinds of strange beads, weapons, and ornaments, that have been...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 34 of Happy homes in foreign lands, 16 HOMES IN FOREIGN LANDS Here savages live in huts made of mud or leaves and reeds, and the villages are surrounded by strong fences which serve as a protection A KAFFIR...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 35 of Happy homes in foreign lands, STRANGE HOMES IN AFRICA 17 for often parties of Arab slave-dealers come down from the north, destroy the villages, and carry away the inhabitants as captives. In East Africa live a people...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 36 of Happy homes in foreign lands, 18 HOMES IN FOREIGN LANDS ing round the fire and settling themselves under the rough, wooden bedsteads. In Somaliland, another distriet of East Africa, IN THE FRENCH SUDAN the huts are very...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 37 of Happy homes in foreign lands, STRANGE HOMES IN AFRICA 19 which the inhabitants can crawl in and out, and through which, when a fire is kindled, the smoke escapes. The men of the Somali tribes are brave...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 38 of Happy homes in foreign lands, 20 HOMES IN FOREIGN LANDS In South Africa live the Kaffirs, whose houses, or huts, are called ‘‘kraals.’’ These huts are made of mud, with thatched roofs. Like most native homes, they...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 39 of Happy homes in foreign lands, STRANGE HOMES IN AFRICA 21 even when quite young, to make themselves useful to their parents. The boys act as herdsmen, and guard the sheep and goats as they wander about the...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922
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Image 40 of Happy homes in foreign lands, CHAPTER III THE ANTIPODES ISTRALIA is a topsy-turvy country—we all know that. A country where June, July and August are winter months where the trees are blue instead of green, and never...- Contributor: Methley, Alice A.
- Date: 1922