Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-09-03
WITH GODS BEST PEOPLE
DR. PORTER DISCOVERS THEM
IN NORWAY AND SWEDEN
Visits Museums, Admires Statues, OBJ
serves Modes OF Living. Ga
thering of Crops, Etc.

COPENHAGEN, DANMARK, August IL.
, FRIEND MUHsoN: | lust bought a
New York Herald and read of the ex-
cesslve heat in the States last Satur-
day. the 9th of August. | have not
seen a hot day since ] left New York.
J scandinavia lie going to be greater re-
sort Tor summer tourists than it now
Is. The Germans are touring Norway
and Sge1en in great numbers and more
Americans will go there in years to
come tnan row go. / spent a lovely
week in Sweden at Upsala and Stock
holm, but the two weeks / spent in
Norway were about as agreeabIy pass
ed as any l have passed over here. The
Swedes are AN active, energetic people.
and like the NOrwegians, have clean
streets. stores and houses. The wo-
men Of Sweden work at almost eyerv-
thing. They are employed in stores.
butcher shops, at washing floors and
entry ways, sometimes at ii D. M, and
Prof: Hochstet!er of Huron college.
South Dakota, tells me they work in
the hotel bathrooms as rubbers. Ihave
seen them caring for the flower beds in
the beautiful parks and near my hotel
small woman was carrying mortar in
two pals hung from neck woke.
1
ed $50 pounds. For nine hours work
she got ninety cents. The people of
Norway and Sweden work logger hours
than those of Britain and .ne cities of
| the States.
The h2y crop of Scandinavia, the first
week of August, was largely hung I'D to
dry. They set ten 7-foot poles in the
ground s feet apart in rows and ran a
small rope from pole to pole, and on
this hung the grass to dry. Through
Sweden the rye was being cut by reap-
ers of the old. fashioned kind and bound
by women and men. The shocks are
made by setting one of those seven
foot pointed hay poles in the ground and
standing around it six or eight bundles
and then Gaping with several bundles
pierced by the pole. The Morse farms
are often small and the buildings are of
the picturesque kind. But down through
Sweden the country and the farm build
ings resemble our own in the better
sections OF America. Only set a flag
pole in the American farm yard and
Swede would think he was at home.
Ont at 'Skansen." park in Stockholm
where one sees, besides zoo large
collection of old Swedish houses, barns,
farming implements and the like, to-
gethef with people who live in them,
Lapland huts, Lapp family or two,
and lot of those loveliest Of Dalecar-
liam girls dressed in their beautiful cos
tunes, each district having its peculiar
costume. Out there / met Prof. Hoch-
stetler who has just spent three weeks
IN Moscow, Petersburg and Warsaw.
His passport is covered With "vises''
which cost him about five dollars. 1t
was vlsed In Berlin; then when he en-
tered Russia Il Gust 4 second Siseg He
went to st. Peterburg ard hotel keeper
took it and kept it untH he departed for
Moscow. Then another visit te the po-
lice, and in Moscow he gave L up, and
took it after the hotel man had got it
,yised again. He had to pay his bill at
hotel before he got his wise AtWarsaw
he got another wise and at the line on
leaving Russia he had to get a permit
to leave the country.
A Russian visiting another province
has to have his passport vised. He says
nres are very high there. He paid
TWO. e~ents for small cheap cake of
for two olilet soap, and sixty-five cents
German fiueIrv peaches. He speaks
said that nearly french as well, but
speak only Russian he railway men
can travel over most of rays that he
after landing, for three dollarountries
but in Russia II cost for three v,day,
trip Sc rs a day. There is no mida.
class there. There is titled aristocra-
cy and a moneyed aristrocracy and the
peasant class. This gentleman has
gone on to Berlin and hope to meet
him there tomorrow. hardly think /
care to enter Russia. | have spent six
| frances for Russian wise and wish
had my money back.
Il Tn.ark oeraya Ia af tho hast ktxsiN
cities in the north of Europe and the
number of fine public buildings, palaces,
churches and museums is enough to be-
wilder one. Thorvaldsen's museum is
visited by every tourist He ended his
seventy-four years of most active life
in 1874. 1t seems impossible that one
sculptor could design, even If he did
not chisel, the hundreds of beautiful
statues, the models in plaster and the
originals in marble that one sees in that
museum. His tomb is in the Court of
the Museum erected by popular sub
scription to contain his works. His
works number over 200 and besides his
statues a few paintings by him are
shown. But the most beautiful statu-
airy hall in Copenhagen is the Glypto-
tex, a new building and erected through
fthe munifcence of brewer and his
wife. If man was ever justified in
selling swill to degrade humanity this
man was. He made high quality of
beer, got. rich, and left this glorious
palace of sculpture as a legacy. Co
penhagen isNful of costly pieces Of sta
tuary. IL alFfsst equals Italy in this
regard. The churches are decorated
with statues, theN parks and public
squares have them Almost everywhere.
The statues | saw in Norway and Swed-
en- are remarkably good ones; the ex-
preston on the faces Of th1se in the
public square in Kristiania was some
how most lifelike and beautiful.
But | must quit. | am in Berlin one
street from the famous Inter den Lin
den and must see the great museum to-
day. 1t was twenty-nine days from
the time | left Edinburgh until | left
Copenhagen, and had good clean rooms
in hotels and good Ecrse and Swedish
food with plenty of rich milk, rode third
class on railways like most everybody
else; at cost of sixty-three dollars, or
little more than two dollars per day,
among these loveliest of Gods people,
who do everything they can to make
ones stay pleasant. / hope a lot of
you younger readers will save up money
enough this year to visit the homes of
your fathers next year. Let them go
by the middle of May to be in Norway
before the influx of Germans in July.
Lei them cross the Alps from Bergen
n Kriafiaria ord m bv hat IN Tr0nd-