Show AMERICAN HOUSES IN EUROPE ex immigrant immigrants who return te to their 1 native land lands copy structure structures they hv have sen seen her here in every country we visited the changes in housing were the most obvious expressions of changed stand ards ot of returned immigrants in slovakia next to the ex himml grant a old tiny dwelling stands a new one built with money be he earned in america looking down on an ital lan tan village one can pick out from the roofs the houses of Ameri americana cant in parts of southern italy one now sees hillsides dotted with small detached dwellings telling the tale taie of savings as well ell as the liberation from the old custom of huddling together in towns a remnant in italy aa as in other coun tries from the day days of brigandage unfortunately the new american houses are often unattractive too like the models they copy occasionally however the reverse ie Is true one cement coment house for instance has proper alons much like an old new ew england colonial farmhouse and sure enough the owner had patterned it after the dwelling on his employers farm in massachusetts in albania the city of korcha al most the whole adult male tion of which had been in the united states presented interesting adapts eions of american architecture now an iron paling instead of the old walls now a garden fronting on the street expressed the feeling of ex immigrants that houses look friendlier without walls alls and now that were an independent nation and the turks and greeks aren arent t pouncing in on ue us we dont need walls viola L paradise and helen campbell in harper a mag azine |