Omaha daily bee., 1914-10-18
DANES DO NOT TALK OF WAR
Miss Panzy Higgins Writes Interest
ing Letter from Copenhagen.
SUFFRAGE MATTER OF COURSE
Writer ns Much Impressed with Nor
way aud Its Exposition-says
Danes Are Wen Fortified
Against Attack.

Miss Pansy Higgins Of Omaha, who
left for Copenhagen this summer to en-.
ter the Danish government school OF
physical culture and folk dancing,
writes the following letter to Omaha
friends. Miss Higgins was the only
American woman to receive a scholar
ship TO this school, the award having
been made by a representative OF the
government school, who came to Chi
oago where Miss Higgins was studying
folk dancing. and was impressed with
Miss Higgins art: o.
II am still under the spell of Norway.
I never was so thrilled by natures beauty.
II seems strange Norway has not been
overrun with millionaires and pleasure
seekers like the Riviera. However, that
would spoil the thrill Moreover the Nor
wegians are proud and simple people
and would no doubt never allow such an
exploitation. They are poor and proud
OF being poor 1 have heard more than
one say. we need little money in Nor
way; we are rich in nature. 1 never
saw such flowers as 1 saw in Norway.
and almost forgot the war in the beauty
Of the heather bloom on the mountain
sides. But one could not forget the war
diers, in Bergen and chrlstiania. copen-
hagen is swarining with them. The Of
ficers look splendid. They are mostly
picked men. tall and fine looking. The
best they breed,
There is not much war talk here. The
king requested that there be no public or
private demonstrations regarding the
war One can see the people feel in
tensely. but they say little. This place
- supposed to be fun of spies Ono thing
has terribly incensed the Danes. and that
10 GeFmany's calling TO arms the. Hol-
ste'ners. The men called were mostly
very young and married. leaving wives
and little children. People who have
come up from South Jutland say the
calling to arms of those young men was
a terrible sight to see. They were the
sons Of the> soldiers who fifty years ago
fought for their. freedom against Germany.
and now for Germany to tear them out
OF their homes to fight against their
friends and people they had no ami
mostly for. made them wild. Worst OF
all putting them in the front line; they
say they could not lift their arms TO fire.
Must Have War News.
It is a sad sight to see me working
on the Danish newspapers with my
Danish-Bnglish dictionary War news I
Will have and as no one seems anxious
to translate to me have to help myself,
which is a good thing for my Danish.
How I welcome the London Times and
Daily Mall. Sunday, September 10. a
crowd of us went TO Malmo to the Baltic
l.sxposition- by boat, seventeen Danish
rniiles across the bay TO Sweden. We had
an. amusing incident, on tile trip. Every
body entering a port must 60 through
the custom house and submit TO a mild
form of examination. when. passing
,tthf9lgh ALI 4 hey asked was Danske2,'
The passengers being Danish, agswered,
q. Ks e., lzssls. When. my turn came q an
sswsted, YOU and the man said mi
+ Tyskerns,', meaning German. Mr.. Lar
Serf ono OF the party. then answered In
= good British. mo she is an English
lady,. simultaneously I said in firm
tones IT am an American" The situa-
ton became complicated owing to the
apparent wish at deception For. a min
ate we thought the day was spoiled
Worse luck, | had not taken my passport
with me. After a very long twenty min
ptes Mr. Larson cleared up the difficulty
and we went on our. way. Our party was
MADE up of very charming people. One
young Miss Hulst is from Cedar Falls
"a, and is studying here at the conser-
Fatory. S q,
+ Danes wen Fortified
was surprised at Denmarlx's splendid
naval arnlament. can tell you. anv
( country viii have some fun getting in ON
, Sopenhagen's preserves. The Danes are n
d clever nation and they are not forever
advertising it. They. have splendid tor
sedo boats and big gun defense They
nave triple fertilization; the tbrea
ISLANDS lie so that they make a natural
oulwark. However, the warships looked
small after seeing the British war yeS-
sells that stood black and deadly the
morning We came through the Shetland
and Orkney Islands The exposition was
wonderfully interesting The Swedes and
Danes had the best exhibits; the Films
also mad very good showing. The Rus
SLAMS had not so good an exhibit as I
expected. Norway has nothing at Malmo
a. 1t has everything at its own wonder
ful exposition at christiania, which has
Peen going on all summer The German
locomotive exhibit was great However
It's immense motor trucks and automobiles
had all been taken out for war service
Germany's steel and iron Industry must
be something stupendous. The swedes
hold their own in the locomotive exhibits
and their iron and steel exhibit was
splendid.
scandInavians Are Original,
There Is a wonderful creative force
stored away In Scandinavia. They have
done wonderful things in pottery and
bronze. Eleof Loot, the painter, had some
great pictures at Malmo. One In partic-
rlar. Mother and Child Deserted"
srlpped my heart. One thing / admire
about the Scandinavian is his love for
p his own individuality. He is not afraid
to be original. The artists don't study
just continental Europe They study Scan
dinavia. They paint the hard realities.
they write the pictures plainly from their
own doorstep. They are so fond of music
and musicians seem to be so beloved. The
king and queen are especially fond OF
music. The king and queen are greatly
loved by the people, not as king and
queen, but as good, honest-minded citi-
zens. Last night attended a concert at
the Concert de Palol and sitting not far
from us was King Christian and the
queen. They were quite impressive in
their simplicity. The queen is lovely and
SO refined and at ease. The players and
singers were all artists. Their first bow
was to the king and queen. who ae-
knowledged It, 1t was nice to see few IL