J A LETTER BITER FROM DENMARK f Tim THE EDITOR Ar Ar Arriving r- r riving on board a vessel to either f of f Denmark's arks ark's islands beautiful tracts of land lam and rolling hills meet r- r k ones view as ho he travels across the thet t country where lies large largo groves of trees which hav have been planted by some omo person who sleeps beneath the sod sad Beautiful fields of grain waves in the breeze which v comes from i the sell sea flowers of natures choicest choices j i. i colors grow row along the roadside among mong the grasses and the shrubs I I Beautiful hedges may also Iso be seen n the railroad track around t along the farm house and the and the garden J In the country people livo live on their farms and aad for this reason roads leading to different houses i may b be he seen sunning in in any direction direction I f i t. t tion lon W which h. h lC h ma makes k t traveling rave 1 mg very I t inconvenient for one who is no not noti acquainted as one may get to the r. r end of a road and ind have to go back r 11 another he r to find providing wants to go farther Large Luge windmills mo most t of whICh r are 6 built in a rectangular shape 1 with a small amaH cone on top at t whose vei vertex tex is fastened a wether van eti F and send whose large larg wings generally J tour four in number extend in the air b so o as to catch the breeze may be seen on the top of a small hill r These mills are used far grinding grain an and running saws A saw sawmill mill has six wings i. i h The houses are low mostly F built of If brick about seven or eight feet to the square roofed with rafters and with straw Enter the tho ho house sc at one end anc and you find the farmer There is iss s generally two or three rooms occupied occupied oc oc- by the family When one enters he sees a small hall hallway way x where the footwear wooden shoes occupants is generally left lett while the occupants occupants pants are re indoors Next may be beI bei i seen the table a stove called a I oven a few chairs an and a bench or tW two In one corner may maybo t bo be a bed built stationery to the wall Go through another door r and one sees one sees a table a chair or two t and many pla places s where there is a large family one sees two beds built foot to foot stationery to the wall and one ono to the other J Enter another room loom and there may be found three four or or orup upwards upwards upwards up up- wards of eight cows according to u the size of the mans man's farm faim In it- it l one corner of the tho room may he seen a few chickens in a small w coop turn to another corner and you may see Ree two or three pigs go goon o ot t on a little farther and you see see two r f. f or three horses through another or door and you ou see a n hackles machine It- It and a vehicle or two wo we are now nowr r f through the farm house honse r Some far farmers have haye larger larger larger-bouses houses or gores as they are arc called These are re four houses built in a square squaret t 1 I. t r t. t J. J kl 1 t j L a am J f. f 9 T f h rP J tfX 2 f for or or forming forming-a a small yard within who whose e angles aniles are from t to feet and some somo times lar larger el the owner my Y keep fr from foni m 20 to two or three hundred cows The industry of the people is to raise faise feed for their animals milk and tend the cows take the milk to the creameries where butter and cheese is made mo most t of which is sold to England A A. A few feY hogs are also raised and sold to the markets The people in this country have but little wood to burn and for this reason a kind of f fuel uel is prepared ed which is called tore It is the roots roots roots' of grasses glasses and nd shrubs in marshy places This is worked up into A paste and out like adobes and dried Each man has his Lis own place to make this fuel Often times when walking in the country a man and his wife I or a daughter dau may be seen at work preparing fuel for the winter It Itis Itis Itis is no new thing to see ee a a. women with a a. wheel borrow piling or movin moving this fuel tuel or 01 to see a J young u g glady lady of about 2 20 years of age leading lead leading leading ing ten or twenty cows all aU at once or see the ladies take tko an active parlin part parl partin in cleaning out the barnyard and scattering fertilizers on the land The people here are vesy polite Whenever the meet one another they raise raise their hats and then shake shak hands no matter matter whether you meet the same person three throe or four times a day It is very nice to see them so polite W We are now in what is called the long days The sun lisses at a a. a m. m and sets at p. p m. m in inthe inthe inthe the longest day of the year One can set and read a newspaper at 1000 p. p m. m in June This is is a great reat country for rain in the summer time It can rain rain and the sun shine between six or eight times a day An A umbrella is is a persons persons best best- friend in such weather The writer has no DO doubt by this time pictured in the mind of the reader a blurred picture of ot some of the scenes in Denmark and therefore will close H H. B. B MADSEN ade 26 Aalborg Denmark