The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-11-30
DANISH ADJUSTMENTS.
Something About the Places of Resort in
COnanhaRan
W. Stanley, Jevous, writing in the ContempOra,

w. Stanley, Jevous, writing in the Contemporary
ReUieu, says =
Social superiority is greatly due to the good sys
tenn of popular education which has long eXistedin
Denmark. But my Danish friends, when question
ed on the subject, attributed a high cvlizing in
fuence to the ThOrwaldsen Museum, and to the
Tivoi Gardens at Copenhagen. The museum in
question contains a nearly complete collection
of the works of the great Danish sculptor, and it
is continually visited by all classes Of Danish So
ciety, including Danish and Swedish peasants, who
come from considerable distances by excursion
trains and steamers, but are as unlike our cheap
trippers in manners as can be conceived. But
Tivoli is my more immediate topic. TivOl is simp-
ly pleasure garden, close to the town Of COpen-
hagen, and Of no great extent 1t is, no doubt,
the lineal descendant Of Belsize, of Ranelagh of
Vouxhall fancy that the English have been in
no way backward in originating places Of recrea-
tiOn from the beginning of last century, a sue
eession of such pleasure gardens have been insti-
tuted in London; but owing to the fatal folly of
our legislators, they have fallen successfully under
the ban of public opinion. With TivOli it is very
different the royal family Of Denmark, and the
upper classes, patronized and frequented it from
the very first, and by good management the gar
dens still thronged with equal proportions of
all classes of the population The principal at
traction in the gardens is fine string orchestra,
which, under large, partially-open pavilion, gives
semi-classical concerts every evening throughout
the summer. The programmes are chosen from the
works of all the best musicians, including Bach,
Beethoven, Wagner, Rossini, Gungl ,Mendessohn,
Weber, Gade, Strauss, Meyerbeer, Reinecke, and
Others In the intervals of the principal concert,
the Harmoniorkestre, or brass band, strikes
up more popular tunes in another part of the
grounds. In closed hall, with a small extra
charge conjuring performances 60 on, with vari-
GUS minor entertainments On festival nights there
is small display of fireworks, in addition to
illumination of the grounds. More remarkable,
however, are the performances on kind of open
air stage employed for ballet-dancing and panto-
mes, somewhat in the manner of the open-air the
atres of the Champs Elysees. Of course, our mag
istrates could not permit so demoralizing spec
tacle as ballet-dancing in the open air. But wish
they could see FrOeken Leontine and Fanny Carey
dance their pas de deux. They would then learn
that among truly cultured and we'll governed
people dancing may be as chaste as it is a beauti
full performance. Dancing per se-the exhibition
of graceful figure in graceful motions and atti-
tudes-may be as chaste as a statue, indeed good
deal more chaste than many statues. But we are
so accustomed to see ballet-girls in evanescent
skirts, in ambiguous attitude, or dressed up as
wasps or cupids, or something extrayagant and
low in taste that we have established inseparable
association of ideas between dancing and immor-
atty. retain grateful recollection of the Froek
en- Carer, who opened my eyes more than anything
else to the degradation of public taste in England.
l afterwards learned that Copenhagen is consid-
cred a great school for graceful and chaste dane
ing.