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THE PARIS EXHIBITION. 201
CHAPTER XIX.
SWEDEN, NORWAY AND DENMARK.
We will begin by visiting the house of" Gustavus Vasa, this
quaint chalet with a winding external staircase and a coating
of dark wooden shells, which give it a stamp of picturesque
originality.
The Swedes have had the good taste not to adorn this
chalet with elegant furniture, but have filled it with a quantity
of articles which bring to the mind the origin of their popular
hero, and the love he bore to his country. ...
Here for instance is the model of a national school, founded
by Vasa, and successively improved by Gustavus-Adolphus
and Charles XlL, and lastly by Bernadotte and his dynasty ;
the children of both sexes are brought up together and receive
the same instruction in reading, writing, geography, universal
history, natural history, arithmetic, weights and measures, &c.
till the age of twelve years, when they are separated •, the
girls are made to occupy themselves in household manage-
ment, and the boys are taught a trade. It has been noticed
that this contact in early life, and this uniform education tend
in after life to render the intercourse between the- sexes more
agreable, and the union of married life of longer duration.
The Swedes, like all northern people, have turned
their special attention to the question of heating the interior
CHAPTER XIX.
SWEDEN, NORWAY AND DENMARK.
We will begin by visiting the house of" Gustavus Vasa, this
quaint chalet with a winding external staircase and a coating
of dark wooden shells, which give it a stamp of picturesque
originality.
The Swedes have had the good taste not to adorn this
chalet with elegant furniture, but have filled it with a quantity
of articles which bring to the mind the origin of their popular
hero, and the love he bore to his country. ...
Here for instance is the model of a national school, founded
by Vasa, and successively improved by Gustavus-Adolphus
and Charles XlL, and lastly by Bernadotte and his dynasty ;
the children of both sexes are brought up together and receive
the same instruction in reading, writing, geography, universal
history, natural history, arithmetic, weights and measures, &c.
till the age of twelve years, when they are separated •, the
girls are made to occupy themselves in household manage-
ment, and the boys are taught a trade. It has been noticed
that this contact in early life, and this uniform education tend
in after life to render the intercourse between the- sexes more
agreable, and the union of married life of longer duration.
The Swedes, like all northern people, have turned
their special attention to the question of heating the interior