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Show AMERICA, Afi SEEN BY A STRANGER. To see ourselves as others see us, we reproduce a paragraph from G. Ferrero's impressions of the United States, as follows: "In North America, or at least in its Eastern States, there are vast and desolate tracts From time to time a village appears, bristling with chimneys. chim-neys. Then the traveler slips on Into the deserted country. Another vlb lage appears disappears Then all at once the train begins to rush through the mlrst of houses. On on It goes The houses never cease to follow it Huge edifices rise from the midst of th little dwellings like giants in a crowd of dwarfs Automo-blles Automo-blles and trolley cars move through the streets. It is a great city; half a million, a million, two million men I are crowded together there In the shadow of a thousand rhinuieys. sur reunded on every side by an almosi deserted country What a strange sight are these wildernesses to a Eu ropean, accustomed to live in one of the crowded countries of the Old World, her men hnvp built thlr houses everywhere( from the shores of the sea up to the highest habltabk-slopes habltabk-slopes of the mountains!'' |