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own hands and all of it after our own 

 devisihg, a log house, which we call 

 Fylfot. 



The name, T take it, has little signifi- 

 cance for the great majority; and yet 

 it is good old English for a sign that i 1 - 

 universally known and used — com- 

 monly called the swastika, the good- 

 luck sign. There was nothing hap- 



that the idea of making the house a 

 sort of museum of the fylfot com- 

 mended itself to us. A typical item of 

 information which I ran across in a 

 "yellow" paper one day was to the ef 

 feet that the symbol was the Indian 

 good-luck sign and that it was called 

 alter an Indian chief named Swastika! 

 ddie writer of the paragraph evidently 

 recognized no incongruity in the San- 



IN THE LIVING ROOM. 



Note the unique fireplace with motto: "Here ends the Road that leads to all Good Comfort." 



hazard about the selection of the name: 

 for years T had been interested in the 

 history of the sign, and in the building 

 and furnishing of a home was afforded 

 the opportunity to use the symbol' not 

 only as a motif of decoration and de- 

 sign, hut also, in a small way. as a 

 means of education. Since the sign has 

 undergone a renascence into popular 

 favor, I have heard and read so many 

 absurdly ridiculous things about it. 



skrit nomenclature being- applied to an 

 American Indian. 



So, in order to set this little matter 

 forth in as true a light as possible, to 

 show the universality of the sign and that, 

 whether it has been indigenous to many 

 peoples in many lands, or whether the 

 world-wide manifestations of it hark 

 back to a common origin in the misty 

 years of unwritten history, whether it 

 has been used as a secular amulet or a 



