The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-17

ing and selling that perfect Implication
OF Norwegian childhood in summer would
be formed, in painting or sculpture, by
the figure or ragged, smiling faced, vel
Iow-headed urchin standing at the road
side with upheld bashet of jordbaert in
tiny, horny hand, and hopeful, expectant
look in kindly eyes of blue.
The tiny Norwegian grave-yards be-
side the mountain churches will have a
peculiar interest to every traveller in out
OF the way districts They have a Ger
tain primness, desolation and vet wild
and uncouth seeming of natures kindly
prodigality of every living thing in green
about them that give them a strange and
impressive character The churches
themselves are curious little boxes. and
possess a peculiar air of austerlty and
solemnity, as if built with the sole pur-
pose of contrasting the infantile effort of
man with the majestic evidences of the
Creators power everywhere surrounding
them. The churchyard. which is also
the graveyard, usually surrounds the en-
tire church, and is often filed or richly
0ordered with mournful frs and ever
greens. The numherless high, rounded
ana prettilysodded mounds can scarcely
be seen for the wild maze of evergreens.
plants and flowers. Beside nearly all the
graves, or family burial-plots-a pc
NAAAhhltS nave uOb nOUlCtu III any OU0EF
country-are benches or rustic wooden
settles, to which the mourner5 come and
muse among the memories of the loved
ones at rest beneath. There are few hea l.
stones. Instead there are crosses of
blackened wood. intehsifying the solemn
suggestiveness of the. place. The Morse
are not given to ELUSIVE inscriptions, and
the transverse beam of each black cross
usually has but two lines. The first be-
I'D ( nd RI,
tod (died). There is only occasionally
added a verse of Scripture upon the pedi-
ment, expressing the universal Christian
faith in Immortality.
In leisurely travelling through Norway.
where one from vagarous impulse or ne
cessity is likely to often come to house of
bender. cabin of peasant or hut of noun
tain saeter, there are certain formaliCies
of etiquette well TO be borne in mind. The
civil stranger is almost joyOusly welcomed
in any home After the wonderful hand
shaking of the first greeting is over, the
housewife Immediately prepares refresh
ment of coffee and smoer6roed, or but
tered bread. You are supposed to wholly
ignore these agreca bic proceedings. When
they are about ready for your entertain
ment, you must rise and pro fess TO be
in readiness to depart. Then the
housewife is voluble in entreaties for
YOU TO remain. ReluCLauc0 ana enUreatY
must now have full play until you are
overpowered by hospitable entreaty and
consent, after renewed handshakings to
remain. At tn PEASANTS cabins and the
saeters a similar formality must be OBJ
served. The peasant woman or the
saeter girl will run forward to meet you,
always bearing vessel of fresh milk in
her hand You must at first refuse with
some expression or gesture conveying the
idea that your are unworthy of the atten-
ton. The woman volubly insists that must
accept her kindly offering. Then you take
the vessel, but only the slightest sip of
milk, and return it with further manifes-
tations of mworthness. This enables her
to further urge and insist whereupon you
accept the civility heartily and take a
long draught. You will be fortunate
traveller, then, if You are not forced, by
the womans fears that you are not quite
sure Of your welcome, to drink not pint
but a gallon
Scenically considered Norway presents
such limitless varieties and countless
numbers of tremendous spectacles that it
is difficult to select even a few which may
be regarded as pre-eminent for grandeur
and sublimity. Perhaps the great gorge
of Romsdal furnishes the most amazing
number of. water falls TO be seen from
any one point in the world. The spectacle
of from score TO half hundred, each
from 500 to 5000 feet in hight; mighty