Through Finland in Carts

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Ethel Alec-Tweedie. Through Finland in Carts

CHAPTER I. OUR FIRST PEEP AT FINLAND

CHAPTER II. A FINNISH COUNTRY-HOUSE

CHAPTER III. FINNISH BATHS

CHAPTER IV. A NIGHT IN A MONASTERY

CHAPTER V. SORDAVALA, OR A MUSICAL FESTIVAL

CHAPTER VI "KALEVALA," AN EPIC POEM

CHAPTER VII. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS

CHAPTER VIII. IMATRA'S ROARING CATARACT

CHAPTER IX "KOKKO" FIRES

CHAPTER X. WOMEN AND EDUCATION

CHAPTER XI. A HAUNTED CASTLE

CHAPTER XII. PUNKAHARJU

CHAPTER XIII. THE LIFE OF A TREE

CHAPTER XIV. THROUGH SAVOLAX IN CARTS

CHAPTER XV. ON WE JOG

CHAPTER XVI. A "TORP" AND "TORPPARI" WEDDING

CHAPTER XVII. TAR-BOATS

CHAPTER XVIII. DESCENDING THE RAPIDS

CHAPTER XIX. SALMON – ULEÅBORG

CHAPTER XX. A FASHIONABLE WATERING-PLACE

APPENDIX

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It is worth the journey to Finland to enjoy a bath; then and not till then does one know what it is to be really clean.

Finland is famous for its baths and its beauties; its sky effects and its waterways; its quaint customs and its poetry; its people and their pluck. Finland will repay a visit.

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For those who are interested in the subject of its Home Rule, an Appendix will be found at the end of this volume.

Very important changes have of late taken place in Finland. Less than half a century ago the whole country – at least the whole educated country – was still Swedish at heart and Swedish in language. From Sweden Finland had borrowed its literature and its laws until Russia stepped in, when the Finn began to assert himself. The ploughman is now educated and raising his voice with no uncertain sound on behalf of his own country and his language, and to-day the greatest party in the Parliament are the Social-Democrats.

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