The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-06-06
WHAT THE DANISH WOMEN
LEA N.
TIhe, earn Things that Are Worth While
AMI Lean Them Well.

The Danish girl is little known ard
less understood in foreign countries.
Even the commonplace German girl Is
much more frequently described and
aualyzed than she in the molern liter
allure Of foreign countries. She is,
however. worthy OF al the obserN a.ioa
which has been 81 freely bestowed Of
late Years on her continental sisters
For Americans especially her training
and ideas cf gils duties III life
should be subjects of keen interest as
she grows to womanhool with more
American characteristics than almost
any other gi,l betW cen the Bay of Bis
CIV and the Asiatic border.
The Danish girl in her youth does
not learn SO much soldier-like obedi-
eGce and reverence as the German
girl nor so N lch imitation OF knowl-
edge as the American aad English
girls The objec. of the education Of
Young girls is TO render them really
irdupendent for life Every effort is
made to develop the reasoning powers
and 10 arouse origina ity. "keys" and
+ onies" are conse lueatlv almost I'M
known among the Danish school ei.lS
\ term in metaphysics, just becals it
smacks of higher education, and gives
NouEg woman a opportunity of saw
ing, oh how | hated it !" is an un-
known institution. Everything. on the
contrary. is careful, solid, thorough.
Among the very Young, object les
so3s are more prevalent than in any
her country. Among the more ma
tule the same principle obtains. and all
the natural sciences, for instance, are
taught with the aid of sufficient APP
paratuS, specimens. and charts. The
I Danish girl gets the same manual
training as the boys with whom she is
, allowed to associate IN school hours
The consequence of this early train
ing is that most Danish girls leave
school with all sorts of un-European
IDEAS of their independence. Proba-
bly, no continental country has, in
proportion to its size, as many women
graduates in medicine. philologv. and
Jurisprudence, and the number OF girls
in professional and learned courses of
study i,ilcgea>ing yearly Daughters
Of rich tradespeople devote themselves
usually TO the trade, Of their fathers
after having served their apprentice
ships II the concerns of strangers,
where only The value of their services
determines the rapilit- of their ad-
yancement.
The trade Of the goldsmith has with
in the last fifteen years game popu-
larity steadily among daughters of the
better class Of Danes, so that to-day
all the goldSmiths of Copenhagen have
Young women As apprentices as we'll
assistants. often enough in their most
elaborate STYLES Of work. Young wo-
men OF lower aspirations become
bakers or confectioners, and are slowly
but surely crowding out from the
trades the men 10 whom such occuga-
ton never Iightfully belonged.
Not few girls In Denmark study
the art Of gardening. Scores annual
l. become professional dairvmaids.
Young women of the peasant class
devote themselves mostly TO learning
all about vegetable gardening, and to
eacou age them IN learning to do theE
work Thoroughly numerous agricultural
associations and local authorities give
pTi IS for the greatest ski il shown in
transforming ugly and uniruitful spots
into model beds Of beets, peas and the
like.
High and low, rich and poor said
q German educator IN recent article
o. Danish women, teach their daugh-
tiers to support themselves in case OF
need without being obliged to stife
their lives in the crowded rooms OF
great factories and workshops"