The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-05-24


similar plan, with four wings round
courtyard, towers at diagonally OPP
| posite corners, stepped gables and fir
ing passages; and both were surround
ed for defense purposes by meats, over
which drawbridges were lowered In
| olden times.
! At Torup these meats have been
filled since the Eighteenth century
| along two of the facades, and replaced
| by gardens laid out in the old style
with sculptures, rose pergolas, and box
hedges. But the charmingly wealth
cred brick walls are still reflected In
| proud swans.
The courtyard at Torup, with its
| Gothic cloister and pointed arches, is
one of the most remarkable in the
country from the standpoint of art and
history. A stone tablet Is set into the
wall over its gateway. It's Latin in
scription is dated 1852 and was COM
| posed by the owner of the property at
that time, Sigvard Grubbe, a scholar
and a friend of the king. He calls up
! on his successors, whoever they may
be-" to do all in their power, as he
did, to preserve and beautify the an
cient building they have inherited.
Baroness coyet's Estate.
Probably none of them has been bet
ter equipped to carry out this injunc-
ton than it's present owner, Baroness
Henriette Coyet. On terms Of close
friendship with most of the members
of the royal family, she loves to sur
round herself with eminent PERSONAL
| ties in various branches of art and sci
| ence, and she is comprehending
| friend to them.
| Nobel prize winners and other for
eign celebrities are received at Torup
when they visit Sweden. The Swedes
in general, the people of Skane in par
ticular, have felt themselves secure in
the knowledge that no one could rep
resent them more worthily than this
lively, highly cultured lady.
| Of course, so energetic person does
not content herself merely with social
| life and the management of her great
house. Her keenness for the promo
tinn of local home industry and the
preservation Of local treasures has ben
Gifted the whole province. The same
may be said of her experience and
| taste in all that concerns gardening
and the cultivation Of flowers. The ex-
tensive park of Torup, surrounded by
luxuriant beech woods, the different
beds, with old-fashioned roseries and
herb gardens, are favorite goals of
specialists and laymen for purposes
of study.
There a great variety Of herbs, and
medical plants, now as good as for
gotten, are still to be found. She takes
a pride in continually increasing the
collection When Howard Carter was
at Torup she inquired whether he had
discovered any protecting herbs In
Tut-Ankh-Amen's coffin. He replied
| that he had, and that among them he
had found the root of an alruna-the
only time he had seen this legendary,
mysterious plant. And then his hostess
had the satisfaction of being able to
| show him a specimen in full and lux
uriant growth in her own herb garden.
| In the ancient guardroom, where in
old times the garrison Of the castle sat
by the loopholes and guarded the draw
bridge, there now hangs a remarkably
| fine collection of modern paintings.
| They sparkle and blossom on the white
washed walls, and bear eloquent wit
ness to the new times in which the
chatelaine takes such keen and vital
interest. She has not only collected,
preserved, and faithfully restored all
the old possessions which have fallen
into her hands, but she has also wished
| to give a place to new ones which in
art express our time and its ferment-
ing youth.
Fine Country Houses.
Big country houses lie all along the
seacoasts of southern Sweden, and still
thicker in Vastergotland, so rich In an
cient memorials, south of Lake Vanern
On the northern side Of the lake is
varmland, whose old family legends
| and traditions have been made known
far outside the boundaries of Sweden
by Selma Lagerlof's poetical descrip-
tons.
But most of the great country houses
| Of central Sweden, and the finest, are
to be found in the provinces which
abut on long Lake Malaren, at whose
exit to the sea Stockholm lies.
1t was there especially that the
primeval people of Svea lived; thence
sprang Rurik, who laid the foundations
| of Russia, and the Vikings who raw
| aged the Mediterranean coasts; and 1t
was there that Christianity was first
| introduced into Sweden.
Foundations and a few massive stone
houses still survive from this long
vanished time, and In certain cases
| the same family has lived on the same
| property for three or four centuries.
There are estates, which, for 500, or
| even 600 years, have been handed down
from one generation to another with
out ever being sold, though these, of
\ course, are rare exceptions.