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NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS. MORAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS. 159
and plainer. The close of the harvest gives occasion, in many parts of the
country, to exuberant festivities; these too, however, of låte years have become
much more temperate, owing to the declining use of intoxicating liquors, and, in
a very great measure, to the graver and more serious bent of the national
character, which is a consequence of the strong religious movements amongst our
people during the last two generations.
On the whole, it cannot be denied that, in Sweden as elsewhere, the
increasing severity of the cstruggle for existence», and the profound social
movements, have cast a gloom upon the joy of life, a phenomenon, about the fullest
consequences of which — both for good and for evil — the future only will be
able to judge.
Oktorp Farm-yard, preserved in the Skansen Open-air Museum, Stockholm.
Dwellings.
The character of the Swedish climate renders it a primary necessity
that dwellings should be built so as to secure warmth. Hence, houses
have to be of solid construction, and every room must be provided
with a fireplace, usually an earthenware tile stove. Double windows
during winter are also almost universally regarded as an essential.
As these requisites render the expense of construction relatively great,
the number of rooms has generally to be limited to a minimum, though
their size is customarily fairly large.
Apart from houses in large towns and from occasional better-class
residences elsewhere, dwellings in Sweden are still principally built of
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