Betty B.
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chapter i of france to scandinavia by frank g carpenter a note before we start in these travels in europe i shall ask you to explore a new continent the old europe died with the world war and then a new europe was born it did not rise phoenix-like from the ashes but is still in its swaddling clothes sprawling about on the floor and trying to grow
Like our own dear babies at home, it shows new aspects each day and the changes are many and frequent.
The social conditions are different.
The new woman is rising to an equal plane with the man and the new man thinks and acts differently from what he did in the past.
The nations have new relations to us and in spirit and fact, we are fast becoming part and parcel with them, sharing in their troubles and borrowing the features in which they excel.
Our social and business relations are growing closer, and with railway, steamship, and airplane joined to telegraph, cable, and radio, the world is becoming more and more one vast family where distance apart cuts no figure.
And so we are going abroad to visit our cousins on the other side of the water.
We have the largest ship ever built, and it will take us only six days to cross the Atlantic.
Wakefield in his trips from the Blue Bed to the Brown.
Landing in France, we shall hire automobiles and move at will over the country, now on the farms, now in the cities, and now on the battlefields where our troops took a live part in the World War.
We shall spend some time in Paris and other industrial centers and then cross over to visit our busy Belgian friends.
We shall stop a while in Brussels and Antwerp, go out to see the new library of Louvain,
built by Americans and passed through historic Bruges and Ghent.
Our first view of Holland will be from an airplane, after which we shall come down to earth and take trips along the tree-lined canals, inspecting the wonders of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and the quaint villages of the Zuiderzee.
A step farther will bring us to the low, flat lands of the Danes, with its luxuriant pastures, helpful hens, and cooperative farms.
We shall visit Copenhagen,
the seaport guarding the Baltic, and then go northward to the fjords of the Scandinavian peninsula.
Here we shall stop in Christiania, the capital of Norway, and motor a while through its woods and farms before going to Sweden, where our journey ends in Stockholm, the island city of Europe.
In these travels, as always, I have tried not to philosophize and do not predict.
I have attempted only to give plain, homely pictures of what I have seen,
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