Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-14
DENMARK DEMOCRATIC
AND WITHOUT SEOBS
Every Person Has a Title, and
Everybody Works; People
Polite and Leisurcly.

The first thing that invades and in
veples you in the heart of Denmark is
the atmosphere of democracy, Shaw
Desmond writes in "Jhc Soul Of Den
mark
"There ia something you miss on the
spacious pavements. The eye searches
uneasily the faces and clothes of the
people you pass, for, like a true Briton,
YOU look first at everybody's clothes
And then it comes to you. Where is
Denmarks submerged tentbl You can
walk the length of these pavements,
in the main thoroughfares at least,
without finding half dozen OF the sub
merged.
nuicklV treasures YOU with those beau
tiful human looking policemen, in the
irreproachable trousers, white gloves
and tunics, with something OF the air
of a fireman about them. You are
quite sure one Of them, that tall, fair
fellow standing under the corner where
that Anplo-Danish word Pohtiken' en-
circles globe. will understand your
English if YOU ask him the way 10 the
Raadhus. or Town Hall. You are not
disappointed. He understands you
His salute is courteous and nnoffciai.
"And now YOU meet the second under
pin Of the Kingdom Of Denmark. The
policeman wears bluc-the color Of
policemen the world over The second
pillar of state wears white-a linen
Jacket which looks cool in the cold
polished sunlight the kind Of sunlight
we never sec in England, the sunlight
with something 'northerlng IN It
'tAs vou step up into the back porch
of the tram, for the gentleman IN the
~ hea
touches his hat tn you before he, with
dignity, rings the bell Ia fine full, leisurely
motion If you are adventurous, you
ean 90 10 the front Gf the finely built
long tram and stand with the driver,
who like all drivers, mustn't be spoken
to, but will be delighted, if you can
speak Danish, to exchange the time Of
day with you.
but you elect the bark porch on
this occasion and watch the gentle
man in the white jacket who is model
or diplomacy in general. and who, though
you don't know it, not being exactly
born linglust, is carrying m a critical
conversation with the gentleman in the
morning-coat and bowler hat, and long
hair about last nights 'Enemy Of the
People nj tho Kings Theater. But he
does stagger you blf when, Just as you
are beginning 10 feel uneasy and wonder
if he haa forgotten the Iange Lnine
which has been written for you on piece
of paper he comes to you and says ID
quite good English, You get of here.
SIT. with an indescribable accent on the
r. Of the sir. Of course he is an exception
Later. very much later when y0u
have got o. ali fours with this Ian
gtiage. YOU will discuss with him,
perhaps, rs have done many times
with 4 friend Of mine upon the tram
! that runs 10 Valby Gecrg Brandes'
latest chronicle in PolitIken' or Pro-
| fessor Christensen 5 play IF the night
before, Or. if your mental stature Is below
| his, the price of butter or eggs But
not the weather People don't fall
back upon the weather SO much as We
| do in England The Danes are conversa-
tionalists
Again" the writer goes on to say.
''there are no snobs. These Danes are,
| or at least were before the war. the
least snobbish people in the world
| They have adopted the word into the
| language, and although | have heard
them use it en IN another, they very
often use it wrongly, and have invented
dreadful yerD-'t0 snob And as
write it comes TO me as IncredIble-a
country without snobdom! Impossible
But why is it? Why?
Now / have it It is that every
body has some work or another Every
body works. Everybody. Work is not
the thing to be escaped and sometimes
despised as it used to be, at least before
the war in middle-class England Work
s not the primeval curse. but the blessing
Of nature. Everybody has his or her
work And everybody has his or her
tisie 1t is the land Of titled democracy.
You always know what the man 10
whom you are speaking does for liv-
ing, what is his particular contribution
TO the worlds work. II he is q student
he IS introduced as Mr. Student So-and-
/ So. Ii he has taken his first degree at
the University, where the students are
drawn from King and peasant indis-
criminately, his name is brought to your
notice as MIR Kandidat Petersen Of
Jensen, as the case may be. If he is q
lawyer, heis called Mr. Lawyer Sorensen.
s's Everybody has title
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