, 1912-03-27

fact the heartiness and warmth of their re-
ception nearly took me off my feet. What
interested me as much as anything else was
to note that the women, the wives of the
farmers, were just az intelligent concerning
1uSkegee and It's methods as the men.
What interested me especially about this
school was to see that all the teaching was
adapted to meeting the condition and needs
of the people in that district, that any far
mer could come there and see, for example,
the best breed of pigs, and within "a few
days learn how to care for and grow them
on his own farm. Any woman could come
there and see the best garden, the best
fowls, and be taught how TO improve her
own garden and her own fowls Here, again,
l found that it was the custom during GER
tain weeks in the year for the farmers wives
to come and live i'll the institution and be
taught the best methods of table serving,
the best methods Of doing everything that
q farmers wife is called upon to do. At the
eud of two or three weeks these wives go
home and the husbands come and are given
instruction i'll the same way. The farm sur
rounding this agricultural high school [
noticed, while not large, was q model of per-
lection. The people who came to these two
meetings to which | referred we're happy,
joyous and prosperous people, 1t was evil
dent that the! took pride in their country
and i'll their part i'll It's success.
AS ut my former stopping place, the peo-
pie assembled in the chapel. Lu this case
the audience was SO large that it could not
get on i'll the inside of the room and [ spoke
to the people standing in an automobile. AS
I drove away at the close of my address,
American and Danish flags were waved and
IL familiar American song was sung with
great heartines5. All this warmed m, heart,
taught me to love Denmark and made me
feel that it was. and is one of the happlGSt
countries III the world.
After making further inspection of farm
life and farm conditions, we turned our way
toward Copenhagen. We had to hasten our
way because of the dinner at the palace, and
| confess that, Notwithstanding [ was seeing
SO much that was new and instructive, all
through the day | was trembling a little in
anticipation of the ordeal that was awaiting
me at night, had never taken a formal dim
ner with Il KING and a Queen, and I did not
know exactly what to do, Here again Min
lister Egan came to my rescue. He had care
fully instructed me as to what time to APP
pear at the palace for dinner and exactly
how | was expected to conduct myself.
Before speaking more at length concern
ing the dinner, [ must mention that not
withstanding the fact that it was getting
dangerously near the hour when | had to
start for the Kings summer residence, we
stopped to inspect one of the gardens main
tanned through the generosity OF "Ihe Po-
Ltiken'' some few miles out Of Copenhagen.
These gardens OF farms, SO far us | kncW,
have no counterpart in America. They are
small bits Of land which the people
are encouraged to cultivate. On Sunday
and at other times when the city people care
to 10 SO, they can go out into these gardens
and cultivate their little patch of land and
live for the day if they wish to in a tiny
house constructed on this land. Thus from
the crowded city they are permitted to get
O. touch of real nature.
The dinner was not at the palace whore !
was received in the morning, but at the sum
mer palace several miles out of Copenhagen.
When [ reached the hotel from the country,
it soon dawned upon me that [ was in great
danger of being late. To keep a King and
Queen and their guests waiting on one for
dinner would of course be an outrageous
offense. I dressed as hastily as | was able
but Just as I was putting on the finishing
touches to my costume my white tie burst.
| was in a predicament from which for q
moment I saw no means of rescuing myself.