father-and-mother-lands

Updated: July 13, 2025

So many foreigners come to our shores and talk about the beauty-spots of their own countries, and so few Americans have in the past seen much of their own land, that we accept the opinions of homesick foreigners as to the superiority of the beauties of their father-and-mother-lands. After this war I guess there will be more fellows determined to give the States the 'once over."

Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest: Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies