IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO
An effective method of teaching his tory and of developing due respect and appreciation for the primitive home industries of generations gone bv ha 6 jusrb been introduced in Stockholm. Swedish school children, in many cases accompanied by their are crowding in, in order to see with their own eyes exactly how their greatgrandparents lived and worked, j In houses furnished exactly as of old. replicas in every detail of old-faahiondd houses in Sweden, thev children may see old women demonstrating the spinning of flax and the weaving of fine linen bv nrimitive methods, while old men sit making shoos. Recreations. too, are illustrated, and when the work is over, the old couples draw near to the blazing log, beneath a steaming kettle in a large, open fireplace, and sing primitive ballads pf yore to the accompaniment of native harpe.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11855, 14 June 1924, Page 10
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