Photo by Schild 



AT THE SPINNING-WHEEL 



Although Switzerland is perhaps the most tourist-ridden country in the world, the con- 

 stant succession of visitors has not succeeded in spoiling the charm and simplicity of the 

 peasant life. Off the beaten track can be found whole villages whose inhabitants lead the 

 same uneventful patriarchal life that their fathers led before them. Handicrafts are heredi- 

 tary in certain families — wood-carving in one, clock-making in another, and so on. In many 

 of the more remote communities the peasants grow their own flax, spin their own thread, 

 and weave their own linen today just as their forefathers did in the middle ages. 



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