. Danish life in town and country. s, and most ofits illustrations are made in Germany. ThelUustreret Tidende is a much larger and better pro-duction; but there is apparently not much scopefor a paper of this class. There are also someillustrated comic papers, the best of which, theKlods-Hayis, is not amiss; but they have gener-ally some difficulty in making ends meet. Ofladies journals there are several, but they allfall far below even a moderate English magazines of a more popular characterhave never succeeded in Denmark. Much of the newspaper reading is done at thecafes, at
. Danish life in town and country. s, and most ofits illustrations are made in Germany. ThelUustreret Tidende is a much larger and better pro-duction; but there is apparently not much scopefor a paper of this class. There are also someillustrated comic papers, the best of which, theKlods-Hayis, is not amiss; but they have gener-ally some difficulty in making ends meet. Ofladies journals there are several, but they allfall far below even a moderate English magazines of a more popular characterhave never succeeded in Denmark. Much of the newspaper reading is done at thecafes, at luncheon-time and later in the day, and The Press 187 the cafes are always well supplied with journals,many of them taking English, French, German,Swedish, and Norwegian dailies, and illustratedweeklies, while the Times of Monday morningcan be read at ones cafe on Tuesday this respect the cafes take the place of theKnglish club, and people generally take their owntime over both their luncheon and their CHAPTER XV COUNTRY UFE IN Denmark, as in almost every country, theboundaries between town and country, orrather between life in the cities and life in thecountry, are still well defined. The aims of lifeare often at variance, and so still more are itsmethods and its pace. In Denmark this differ-ence is probably quite as pronounced as else-where, and I fancy it is even growing more so; foralthough Danish farmers are men of marked pro-gress in many ways, a certain conservatism stillprevails in their every-day life. The best livesare lived in the countrj. This verdict would beassuredly echoed by many, perhaps bj most,Danish country-folk, who have but few sympa-thies in common with the inhabitants of such amodern city as Copenhagen is fast preference for their own sphere is not con-fined to any one class of the population, but seemsdiffused amongst its various strata, and althoughthey do not mind spending a few days in thecapital now and th
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