. Danish life in town and country. Thepension is not lavish, but it should be rememberedthat under such circumstances a little money goesa long way in Denmark. In the country thepension is from ^4 10^. to ;^5 per annum, in mostprovincial towns ^5 10^., and in Copenhagen from£] 5^. to ;^8 12^./ and the pension can eithertake the shape of ready money or be given inkind, or the recipient can be received into a homes have been specially built for thispurpose, and here the total expenditure per in-mate, per day, board and lodging, amounts toi^yid. About 2^ per cent, of the population r
. Danish life in town and country. Thepension is not lavish, but it should be rememberedthat under such circumstances a little money goesa long way in Denmark. In the country thepension is from ^4 10^. to ;^5 per annum, in mostprovincial towns ^5 10^., and in Copenhagen from£] 5^. to ;^8 12^./ and the pension can eithertake the shape of ready money or be given inkind, or the recipient can be received into a homes have been specially built for thispurpose, and here the total expenditure per in-mate, per day, board and lodging, amounts toi^yid. About 2^ per cent, of the population re-ceive this pension, of which the State defrays halfthe expenditure. 220 Danish Life The Danes are fond of stringing several wordstogether, the result often being rather alarmingto a foreigner, and in few cases is this propensityso strikingly shown as in the Danish word for ap-plication forms for old age pensions, which (thereader must take my word for it) takes the at-tractive form of: CHAPTER XVIII THE FREEHOLD FARMER AND AGRICULTURALCO-OPERATION THERE is no class amongst her sons of whichDenmark has greater cause to be proud thanthe freehold peasant farmers. That they shouldhave attained to a state of such advanced enlight-enment, that they should so promptly and so fullyhave grasped modern views and ideas in mattersof education and politics, and in the practical andrational exploitation of their land and its produce,becomes all the more remarkable when one con-siders the miserable conditions under which theDanish peasantry formerly lived, the absurd man-ner in which land and labour were then divided,and their natural heaviness and slowness, counter-acted, however, by no small amount of naturalshrewdness. A century ago the Danish peasantwould most assuredly not have been thoughtlikely to become the pioneer he is now on all sidesacknowledged to be, and in inquiring what hasmade him so, ones mind instinctively goes to therural high
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