home-tents

Updated: May 12, 2025

If you are disposed to investigate the matter, you will find that the history of nations may be clearly traced in the visible moral expression of the homes of the people; in the portable home-tents of the Arabs; the homely solidity of the houses in Germany and Holland; the cheerful, wide-spreading hospitality of Switzerland; the superficial elegance and extravagance of France; the thoroughness and self-assertion of the English; and in the heterogeneous conglomerations of America, made up of importations from every land and nation under the sun, a constant striving and changing, a mass of problems yet unsolved.

E. C. (Eugene Clarence) Gardner - Homes and How to Make Them