The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-23

articles of Hungary, they came from
westcra Asia and are quite distinct IN
race characteristics from their present
neighbors. They acquired from their
Swedish conQuerors fondness for the
public school, and the percentage Of IL
literacy IS much less IN Finland than IN
other parts OF Russia under whose do
minior they unwilltngly came in 1903.
Our boat stopped at Helsingfors for
a few hours, and we had an opportuni-
~ TO visit the capital OF Finland. 1t is
a substantial and prosperous looking
city, with large school houses attract
i've public buildings and commodious
churches. We passed several small
parks, where children were playing
and where numerous comfortable seats
bockoned the weary to rest beneath the
shade.
/ confess to partiality for the
small city park; il IS much better To
have these breathing spaces so scat
tered about through densely populated
sections that the children, as we'll as
the adults, can find in them a daily
refuge, than to have the entire park
fund laYished upon suburban parks
which can only be visited occa sional-
ly. 1t is pity that space is not more
often reserved for these I&rks in the
laying out OF towns. for the ground
not. only becomes more valuable I'm
the more needed. but the opening of
them In thu heart OF city brings a
large unearned increment To those
who own hand adjacent to them.
We could not help noticing the con-
trast between the market OF Helsing-
fors and those which we visited in Asia.
At the former, neatly dressed peasants,
men and women, exposed for sale from
the end of their cars a bountiful supply
cheese. The eggs were stamped with
the name OF the owner and the date of
laying, the butter was packed i'm wood
en- buckets or various Sizes and the
cheese was of many varieties. Some
Of the carts were filed with stacks of
black bread baked I'm large fiat cakes.
The radishes presented q temptation
that I was not able TO Withstand; the
fondness for them, restrained during
the months of travel through the ORR
ent. overcame me. and at the risk of
being thought eXtravagant l purchased
five dozen at a gross outlay of about
cents, and lived high until they were
all gone.
The Firms are rejoicing over the au-
tonomy recently secured, and they have
signalized their partial independence
by creating single parliamentary
body whose representatives are elected
by the entire population. male and fe-
male, above the age of "a. No one can
understand the persistency with which
the Firms have struggled for constitu-
1onal government without recalling
that as a part of Sweden their country
long enjoyed the right to representation
In the nations council. The people
have always resented Russian meth
DDS, and only a few years ago the
governor general sent from st. Peters
burg was assassinated by a young Finn
who, having thus given expression to
his nations hatred Of despotism, i'm
mediately took his own life. The death
of the governor was followed by the
suspension of such few privileges as the
people had been enjoying. but when
last year the whole of Russia seemed
about to rise in rebellion, the car an
nounced his willingness to grant all
that was asked, and now one can trav-
Ell through Finland without being har-
assed by soldiers or bothered about
passports.
If Constantinople can claim to be the
natural capital of the eastern hemis-
phere, Stockholm can with equal justice
claim TO be it's natural summer resort
1t is situated at a point where a chain
of lakes pours it's food into the Baltic,
so that the citizens of Sweden's cap
ital have their choice between the fresh
water and the salt. As the lakes and
the sea are filled with innumerable ISL
ands each family can have one for it.
self Summer homes are probably more
numerous near Stockholm. in proper
ton to the population, than anywhere
else, because during the winter months
the people live i'm flats. One is immedi-
ately struck with the compactness of
the city and with the absence of sin
gle dwellings surrounded by yards.
Owing TO the severe cold and the long,
dark days Of winter, the people huddle
together i'm great blocks and thus econ
omize fuel, and they are at the same
time close TO their work. AS soon as
spring opens there is a general move
ment toward the islands. and as we ap-
preached Stockholm from the Baltic
and left II through the lakes. we saw a
great many summer cottages and
watched the boats carrying their car
goes Of passengers to and fro
Swedens lakes are so numerous and
so large that about per cent of her
entire area is given up to these internal
waterways, and they probably account
for the fact that her people had a large
domestic commerce before the era of
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