Photograph from Frederic C. Howe 

 FOUR LITTEE DUTCH KIDDIES JUST ARRIVED 



Generations of careful living such as is always necessary in a country of narrow bound- 

 aries and expanding population has developed in the Dutch a frugality and a contentment 

 with simple pleasures that cannot be excelled. 



Kent. It is as if all of the population of 

 all of the States of the United States west 

 of the Mississippi, plus that of Alabama, 

 should have come bodily to America. 



History records no similar movement 

 of population which in rapidity or vol- 

 ume can equal this. Compared to it, the 

 hordes that invaded Europe from Asia, 



great and enormous as they were, were 

 insignificant. 



Of the 33,000,000 who have come 

 more than 14,000,000 still live among- us, 

 and their children and children's children 

 are now in good truth bone of our bone 

 and blood of our blood. 



Not long ago America crossed the hun- 



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