New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-14


was not that she could not forgive HINT was that she
could no longer deceive herself His ways were her
ways, nor his thoughts her thoughts. And they
parted In the pleasant Summer sunshine, there at
Lorete As Kitty herself said afterwards to Mrs Eli
son
We were too far apart in what we had heen and what
we believed ana respected, ever to grow really To-
gether. Aud he gave me tho highest position In the
world should have only t5at lie never Go1h o, ee
dearly and be only could like me as far as he could
estrlnge me from them II he could cody put me
with me toot That's what flashed through me, and
don't believe that getting splendidy married u as good
being true to the that came long before, ana
honestly living your own life OUT, without fear or enO
ling, whatever 1t Is.
10 all very right and sensible and Judicous; but,
had held the wand OF the storyteller, would have
been more erciful. would not have sent back the
tender gray eyes that had looked with such brave frank
ioyfulness upon the world filled with new sadness
And think Miles Arbuton, unfortunate as no doubt it
for him to have been born in the Beaeonh part OF
Boston, yet man, worthy OF love and capable OF
loving would fan have had this exquisite book end
with the wedding march, instead Of with Goodbye,
Sweetheart"
After the conclusion ofMr Howess story, the article
which has most interested me- the prooshees Of the
Atlantic June, paper entitled Danish Society
and its Revival" 1t is by Danish gentlemen Clemens
Petersen who writes OF scenes andncdens all Of which
he saw and part Of which he was and his article has,
therefore the fidelity and vivacity which could not have
been impaired to it by any mere traveller The average
American reader knows much less Of Denmark and its
social constitution than OF its nextdoor neghbor Ger
many or even OF that Holland which the Dutch have
taken In 80 many tale "a ridge Of hills and the sea
on both Sides" says Mr. Petersen, and this Is Den
mark" Both the peninsula and the islands modelled
after the same plan but this pan-the ridge OF hills
with the sea on both sides-whicb seems so simple
to the visitor, includes Infinite variety OF
landscape, and OF experience, from the sweet
Summer idy in the wood to the scenes Of wild horror
when the roaring towering over the sand-bars
break the large stron gy.but ship like toy and scat
ter her the strand; or when the swift hurr
cane catches sand from the banks and hurs 1t ter
riby over the country often burying many acres Of
land, many years labor, many mems hopes under
drift no sun will melt The hills are low, the high
est, "The Mountain Of Heaven" being only $50 feet
high, and all the ridges from north TO SOUTH
Toward the east the hills slope downward undulatlng
gently and the land is studded with rich woods step
ping down toward the sea. At the west the hills de-
scend suddenly and almost steep, leaving stretch
OF fat land between their margin and the Only one
wind blows in Denmark, the west wind; when the
others try 1t a calm. The strong west wind blows 800
days in a year and nearly always blows gale.
so much for the face the country The people con-
sis three cassesthe nobility, the peasantry and the
third estate, which, with sneer flung upward at the
ariStOcracy ana pedsdnls CdllS IlSoi
the educated people," The Danish nobility are rich, as
riches go in Denmark; but they have very little infu-
ence. once they powerful, but they received a
crushing blow when in Denmark made an abso-
Lutte monarchy, and when in 1913 the Danes became
free people, and every citizen was called to an equal
part in the government the nobility sank suddenly into
miserable insgnihcance. Since then they have been
gradually increasing in local Importance, and nave
taken In many instances much the stand with eX-
gnfF inn
ents in agriculture the like. To the middle class
he educated peope"Denmark is indebted for its free
constitution and for the first ende toward making
this constitution Of practical use. This class Is
the most important one in Denmark ana
its ideas and manners are the ideas ana
manners OF the Danish people 1t comprises families OF
various grades of wealth and social mportance-peope
living incomes OF from 1000 TO $4,000 year. Inere
are three different stages OF social progress, which Mr.
Petersen sets down with simple and sincere gravity In
the first stage family with silver forks and has
piano 1t would be very hard in Denmark for house,
hold attain the position which entities 1t to the so
cey of educated people, II it ate with iron forks and
had no piano that is 10 say, II 1t could not anord 10
surround its life with certain appearance Of taste and
Gle gance. An educated Dane would defy Prof. Blot,
aud eat pork and beans twice day all the year round,
thinking himself very well fed, provided he could eat
them with silver fork; but II he must feed himself
without one. the iron enters into his soul Danish
family that misfortune has reduced will see chairs
and tables 20 TO auction and it bravey but II the
piano follow, it is as If the sun had fallen from
heaven and darkness upon the face OF the earth
The next higher stage Of prosperity when carpets
make their appearance and they keep close carriage
This latter affords prolonged satisfaction which seems
almost udicrOus. For year every visitor Is taken TO
see IT, and the best argument to open the eyes OF the
head OF the house to the need for new dress is You
would not have me sit in the landau with this ola
thing4" In the third stage Of social elevation, the
chandelier is hung from the ceiling, aud the footman
keeps guard in the ante-room. But these differences Of
social circumstances however great thrown quite
into the background by community Of education, OF
IDEAS and OF manners and 1t Is quite common to hnd
family which never gives dinner party, or treats its
guests with than cup tea living in close intimacy
with a family whose footmen at every supper serve
dainty yands silver plates.
Society must be at very simple and very charm
ing in Denmark according Mr.. Petersen. There is
place where culture goes for much unless indeed it
be in Concord Mass IL is not Of course expected that
every shall be profound scholar but at least HIS
mind must be open toward the light and he be able to
express opinions in great heat Of discussion
with mldness aud with dignity. Indifference to the
OF life and the feelings of others is never mis-
taken in Denmark, for independence or strength OF
mud and the nau who makes himself disagreeable by
his dognatism is not likely have frequent opportun
tirs for repeating the experiment. To go litte into
Mountaineering 10 the Danish idea Of educated
man
He must have I'm his mind picture Of life in the an
cent Repubcs under the feudasm OF the Middle Ages,
and in the democracy OF modern times and this picture
must in OF its details, be painted In full giving
clear and weened notions OF the tendencies. religions
or moral scientific artistic political or social, which
have acting III different periods or are acting IN
the present Or 10 still more into details, girl who
had never heard the OF Socrates aud Columbus
who had no idea the difference between picture OF
tbe Italian school and one OF the Dutch school; who
Thought that Romeo and Juliet aud The School for Sean
da were written in France by the same author or IN
me same century who believed that Goethe wrote the
librctio OF the opera which Gounod composed-would
give pain Danish company, aud nobody would know
what 10 do with her IL Is ALWAYS supposed that the
great peaks OF civilization must have been visible To ner
from the hearth her home, and &c is always expected