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let in the light ? In olden times people did not have glass, 

 and therefore made the windows very small, and sometimes 

 had none in their houses. Should you like to live in such a 

 house ? 



How do we light our homes at night? Discuss the electric 

 light, gaslight, common oil lamp, old-fashioned candle, and 

 the pine knot and fireplace as means of lighting the home, 

 showing how much advancement has been made in these 

 things. 



LESSON XXXIV 

 OTHER PEOPLE'S HOMES 



Where is the sun now? Where is it in the summer time? 

 Where is it summer now? In tropical countries it is never 

 winter, as it is here. Birds and flowers and fruits are seen 

 there all the year round. What kind of homes do you 

 think they have in such countries ? Do they need houses 

 as thick and warm as ours ? Many live in bamboo houses, 

 open on all sides except during a rain, when the sides 

 unroll like a curtain and keep the wind from blowing the 

 water in. 



Show pictures and tell stories about the tropics. Cut from 

 cardboard, paint, or draw homes of the tropics. Use straw 

 for bamboo, and make a bamboo house for busy work. In a 

 similar way treat the Eskimo hut and the manner in which 

 Eskimos keep warm when the sun is so far from their 

 country. Show that huts similar to those of the Eskimo can 

 easily be made. Likewise, many pictures of the land of 

 the north can be shown to the children to give them an idea 

 of the homes of other people, and why they are not like 

 ours. 



