The Nome daily nugget., 1936-01-17

served. They are in skane, and wess rebuilt in the Sixteenth century.
 vittskovle and Torup are laid out on a similar plan. with four wings round courtyard, towers at diagonally op- posite corners, stepped gables and nr- 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.
 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. stone tablet is set into the wall over its gateway. It's Latin in- scription is dated 1882 and was com posed by the owner of the property at that time, Sgvard Grubbe, scholar and 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- clent building they have inherited.
 Baroness coyet's Estate.
 Probably none of them has been bet ter equipped to carry out this inJunc- tion than its 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 personali- ties in various branches of art and sci- 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
 
 house. Her keenness for the promo tion of local home industry and the preservation of local treasures has ben efited 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.
 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.
 Fine Country Houses.
 Big country houses lie all along the seacoasts of southern Sweden, and still thicker in Vasterg0tland, so rich In an- cent memorials, south of Lake Vanern. On the northern side of the lake is yarmland, whose old family legends and traditions have been made known far outside the boundaries of Sweden by Selma Lagerlof's poetical descrip. tions.
 But most of the great country houses of central Sweden, and the finest. are to be found fin the provinces which abut on long Lake Malaren, at whose exit to the sea Stockholm lies.
 It was there especially that the primeval people of Svea lived; thence sprang Rurik, who laid the foundations of Russia, and the Vikings who rav- 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 800, or even GOO years. have been handed down from one generation to another with. out ever being sold, though these. of course. are rare exceptions.
 Many lie far from the towns. so that none of the modern thirst for super ficial, exciting pleasures has yet found it's way to them; that is why the old Swedish traditions in all classes of society are more firmly rooted there than anywhere else