. Danish life in town and country. Denmark I was muchstruck with the absence of style even in the dressof younger women, but the last few years havewrought a wonderful change in this style and things English are much ad-mired—so much so that a firm not long ago ad-vertised that smart tailor maids might be hadat such and such a price, an announcement whichin due course called forth the remark from afrivolous journal that the price mentioned couldnot by any means be called excessive if the maidswere really all the vendor claimed for them. Letme note here that the Danish girl is v
. Danish life in town and country. Denmark I was muchstruck with the absence of style even in the dressof younger women, but the last few years havewrought a wonderful change in this style and things English are much ad-mired—so much so that a firm not long ago ad-vertised that smart tailor maids might be hadat such and such a price, an announcement whichin due course called forth the remark from afrivolous journal that the price mentioned couldnot by any means be called excessive if the maidswere really all the vendor claimed for them. Letme note here that the Danish girl is very takingand pretty; regular features are not, perhaps, herforte, and Mr. Orchardson would probably notaltogether approve of the average type of Danishnose; yet, in spite of this, a visitor to Copenhagenis always impressed by the number of fresh and 74 Danish Life pretty faces to be seen in the streets. But Danishgirls do not seem to grow old very gracefully, andto but few of them would sweet seventeen andsweeter seventy CHAPTER XIV THE PRESS DENMARK claims the first place amongst theiievvspaper-readiug nations, which impliesthat newspaper-reading affects a greater percent-age of the population in Denmark than it doesin other countries. Everybodj% in fact, must havea look at the newspaper, and the divergent tastesamongst this complex body of readers is veryadequately catered to, a vast variety in the wayof journalism being available. Small as is thedaily Press of Denmark, as compared with that ofEngland, for instance, it in all likelihood containsgreater contrasts than the latter, in religious andpolitical opinions, in the decorous sense as to whatshould and what should not be printed, in size,in style, and in other details. In a small countrylike Denmark the great momentous issues, whichare bound always to engross the attention of theleading and responsible journals of an empire,either do not exist or do not force themselves sounceasingly into the foreground, with t
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