. Danish life in town and country. tly started a Labour Bureau for employersand employees, which is being extensively usedby both, finding employment during the first sixmonths for 8668 persons out of 19,228 applicants. That the Social Democrats would have as fairwind in the matter of social and political reformsas they have on the whole experienced in themore practical questions of trade organisationis extremely unlikely. Their programme is alarge and ambitious one, both comprehensive andheterogeneous, made up of Utopian dreams andpractical, although perhaps not practicable, re-forms, and emb
. Danish life in town and country. tly started a Labour Bureau for employersand employees, which is being extensively usedby both, finding employment during the first sixmonths for 8668 persons out of 19,228 applicants. That the Social Democrats would have as fairwind in the matter of social and political reformsas they have on the whole experienced in themore practical questions of trade organisationis extremely unlikely. Their programme is alarge and ambitious one, both comprehensive andheterogeneous, made up of Utopian dreams andpractical, although perhaps not practicable, re-forms, and embracing the spheres both of politics Social Democracy 99 and religion. As to the latter, they openly avowthat they have no confession, a phrase apt toevolutionise into no religion; they do notwant religion to be taught in schools; and theyadvocate the severance of Church and State. Inpractical politics they call for universal suffrage,both for men and women, at the age of twenty-two, and the introduction of an eight-hournormal CHAPTER IX COPENHAGEN THE Danish capital, the Athens of the North,as it is sometimes called, is in many ways asingularl}^ well-favoured city. Lying on theborders of the Sound, it not only boasts a situa-tion of much and varied charm, and enviror\s ofgreat beauty, but it enjoys an admirable positionfrom a commercial point of view, at the entranceto the Baltic. It has for many centuries been theresidential city, the seat of the Government, theheadquarters of the Army and the Navy, andthe undisputed, because the only, centre of aca-demic, scientific, and artistic life. Copenhagenis at present in a state of transition; from an old-fashioned,— one cannot exactly say old-time —fortified town, it has in the course of two or threedecades become a smart, up-to-date city, withelectric light, asphalt, and big shops; it hastripled its population and materially extended itscommerce and industry. But the old and thenew often meet in an incongruous manner. Inso
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