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his i^resent position of luxury and power. The 

 Eomans had no sugar. Washington never owned 

 a stove. At Mt. Vernon is the old home of Wash- 

 ington, standing there in much the same condi- 

 tion as when Washington lived. In the kitchen 

 is the fire-place and all the old devices for cook- 

 ing over it hanging there. But no stove. A fire- 

 place is merely a camp-fire which has been 

 brought into the house and presented with a chim- 

 ney. 



The people in the main part of the world never 

 had any potatoes, corn, tomatoes, peanuts, nor 

 turkeys until after America was discovered. In 

 very early stages men cooked with hot stones, in 

 wooden cooking vessels. They put clay on these 

 vessels to keep them from burning, and learned to 

 harden it by fire, finally coming to use clay ves- 

 sels altogether. 



The most of the Indian tribes in the United 

 States east of the Missouri river and many of the 

 tribes of Asia and early Europe were in the stage 

 of Lower Barbarism. 



5. Middle Barbarism, from the domestication 

 of animals in the East and of the corn plant in the 

 West to the invention of the art of smelting iron 

 ore and the use of iron tools. 



The village Indians of Mexico, New Mexico, 

 Central America, and Peru were in this stage 

 when found by Europeans. So also were the 

 Britons, tlie people who lived in Great Britain 



