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you can purchase from $35 to $40. This is really the earning capacity 

 of the farmer or the implements that he has to use to make his living 

 with. 



These little farms that you find through the country sections pos- 

 sibly you could get two and maybe four of them in this room so little 

 are they. You can realize from such a small plot of ground that the 

 farmer cannot make very much to keep his family on; so with his 

 horse and stulkjaare he has something that he can earn a living for 

 his family with and it has been a Godsend to the Norwegian that the 

 tourist has taken to travel in his country more and they do not hesi- 

 tate to say that their country is much better financially than before 

 the tourist came there in numbers and so it is fair to say that one of 

 the chief industries is catering to tourists and he does this largely 

 with the stulkjaare. He gets about |3 a day for travelling with his 

 horse and for his own wages. The country is subdivided into two 

 sections and each section has its own station where there are a cer- 

 tain number of horses required to be in order to accommodate tourists 

 and I suppose you have already grasped the idea that everything in 

 This section is of the most primitive kind. The farm houses of the 

 Norwegians are nothing but huts with turf roofs on which is placed 

 the turf and you see the grass growing on these turf roofs from eight 

 to ten inches high which presents a rather picturesque appearance. 

 In contrast to this primitiveness we are rather surprised to find that 

 they have a systematisjed travelling scheme and each farmer is re- 

 quired to send his horse into the various travelling stations so that 

 there shall be a sufficient number to accommodate the tourists as 

 the demand increases. They have this system so well regulated that 

 each man knows exactly over what territory he can drive, the num- 

 ber of miles or killometers he can drive so that one does not interfere 

 and get into the territory of the other, so that there is a perfectly 

 amiable arrangement. We find the country subdivided into sections 

 very much as our states are subdivided into counties and each sec- 

 tion has its own customs and costumes. The people in the various 

 sections wear one particular costume, and this makes me think of one 

 of the institute workers who tells a story of how the farmer's wife 

 is abused by having to send to the neighboring town to buy a spring 

 bonnet. The horse was so slow that by the time she got back the 

 styles had changed. This does not effect the Norwegian woman, be- 

 cause the styles never change. They wear the same style of dress in 

 all its details from generation to generation. I have here, which pos- 

 sibly you can see, the dress of the Norwegian girl and the young 

 women and I have also the dress of the man and the boy in the Har- 

 dangar section of Norway. I would like to say that the men from the 

 old countries do much more to contribute to the picturesqueness of the 

 country than do our American men by wearing these attractive cos- 

 tumes. We find the young girls wearing a knitted zeyplucoil which 

 goes over the hair; and then we find the next older girls wearing a 

 cap like this and this corresponds with the same costume that I have 

 shown you on this little girl and they wear a red jacket such as T have 

 here. Then when the woman marries she wears a head arrangement 

 something like that and when she becomes an older married woman 

 she wears a black one. I think you American men would be glad if 

 there was some way you could tell the ages of the American women 



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