Show bining ab 11 VA vt I 1 t 1 VIP LIZ IL 0 1 OWN 1400 I 1 ait 5 C W f ahmei scene seen on stockholm i quay quays 1 by the h 1 acif ac ty tf W I 1 ington 0 D 0 7 mervie 1 la Is celebrating thie this S year the one hundredth until vermacy of the opening of the tile lota iota canal which connects the tile swedish capital with flo Go on the tile north sea mea miles across the ka I 1 adom I 1 ven without ito it party adorn ment went which it haa has do downed ned for the celebration stockholm li Is a city that fairly ita its quays are the city a front doors with steps elways freshly scrubbed rubbed ec under brilliant summer anti even the cargoes of many of the tile harbors har bore balling sailing craft moored in front of royal pain palace town hall and house of parliament glisten with countless cords of ell all ver birch the city fuel I 1 very year in I midsummer floral re reen gallat lla groomed to tie receive elve only H n few american visit vi eltore or a while bile ew offer continental included t n 1 eded in customary cue tomary tourist itineraries are ulli ronK the tile average traveler does not de cide elde casually upon a trip to ahlm h lm nor he lie comes contes directly rom roni new york by ocean route does tie t american alwaes arrive in the 11 oat amiable frame of anine it is a lone oil hard journey from western or southern I 1 drope to the historic city founded several cat urles ago its a forert fort rt 4 to resist tho the forays of hal flat tic tie pirates I 1 rom I 1 arts 1 for example unless one in selects the and ethil rating airplane mole of travel the jor part of one day must be spent nn on the tile train imin to amsterdam thence tl it ere la in an nil all night journey to ham lam burg another full day on tho train to copf fhagen and finally nally I by train ferry and train again a second n d night la Is required to teach one ones a destination Stoc stockham khom a prosperity like that of the entire country la Is foun founded deil in large 1 measure on forests the city 8 name isle of log suggests it but I 1 H I 1 tre cre la Is no evidence of tl ll Is in exter nal rial appear appearances aric there was a time hon the metropolis 11 as built of wood and it require I 1 six 1 dim conflagrations recurring over a period cf of two and a half halt centuries to convince its citizens that their barest i against flames lay beneath their reet feet city built of and on granite stockholm toddy Is built of gran lie ile upon granite found A Inn blasts his brilling bu illing ma ran morlat froni from the site of his proposed need sed structure and by the some opera ion tion makes his ills cellar collar the result Is it city of bomber somber unadorned eray gray mone apartments and business buel nees build inea inga con yang 1 the impression of having been erected for eternity architecturally one enters a it new M borki orld on reaching Stock hohn no lightest sIgh test suggestion la is to be found of that classical areek influence 1 so conspicuous in most of the capitals and el calef ter cities of southern central and western europe for twelve years stockholm la in bored on ita its town hall it was nn fin ched as planned for formal bedl cation in the four hand hundredth alth anniversary of the beginning 11 of the 1 of insa 8 hw edens ilist hereditary ruler the tile hall in contrast to the customary to 11 pry granite la Is built of except tIo tlona nally lly large 1 red bricks its in perlor Is as impre as its ex herfor on one side of a rent great in nor court Is tl ti e famous blue room rising 11 from the ground to the full height of tho the bull bullying ding thil Is used for official banquet banquets and similar civic affairs 11 here each year on a sunday in auguar a refine event Is 1 when awards are made to Mock bolms grent reat army of workmen farmers one of tho the inert most Inte reit inc inz groups to be found in the swedes are noted for their love 1 of the anal and anti all that it producer ducer and this passion for growing growling things cannot be tined stifled by the cir or curn stance of exist ence eo an tho the city haa has set aside count le IMS lets ts capreri of su barlan territory for conversion into arrin 1 plots pints and these are rented to for the equivalent of az M for a summer season here the laborer builds n tiny cot tage a one room and porch oquilly lie can buy bay a complete e reidy ande for aw 10 an I 1 get set it up tip like a jig m puzzle all summer he mid bia wife mire and children live on their little farm ho lie conti continua num his M work la in shipyard or factory but early in the morning inor nin before he goes to lila ills job in ta tie e city anil find when he returns in the afternoon he joins his ills wife in hoeing the vegetables training the tile roses over the doorway cultivating the dah dahline lins pansies vio let leti and sheet peas garden prize prizes awarded toward the end of the summer the housewife la to kiet busy canning and preserving tho the prod produce u ce of her dollhouse garden whilo while t the he husband concentrates ills hi escorts upon tile flower on the appointed sunday in an all gust each family takes its prize products product a blossoms fresh and canned vegetables and fruit to the blue room here the women ar rayed in the peasant attire of their native provinces display the tile results of their summer recreation aud and dl dt version these workings in gardens were ft ere introduced during the ins ing years of the world war when hen sweden was more or lesi isolated ant and when all nil food products commanded fabulous prices although the no longer exists the gardens tire continued not only because they are flann chilly successful tl 0 vegetables raised eccli year are valued at noro than half a million dollars but be cl III they lave 1 promoted the health and hill illness of the tile working classes and have contributed I 1 y to the tile attractiveness of the capital capitals a environs the I 1 little farms are a special boon to the children of the work ing 1 classes who mho must storo store up tip en on orgy for those long hours of fall winter and spring schooling judged by american standards the lot of the schoolboy or girl in stock holm Is one of the tile most unenviable in the whole world of elu catlon school life begins nt at the age of six 1 the hours tire trying and saturday Is like every othar week day in winter of course the pu pit roust must get got up and dress by arti artl iclal light ani ant he fie starts for school wilile the lamps tire still burning binning he lie begins hia his daiy diy diya a task nt 7 45 at a 10 45 5 he goes home for breal fast return to the classroom nt at noon and Is dismissed at 2 13 or 3 30 according ng to ills age in mid m winter inter it la Is lark nt at the later hour un ler ter such circumstances it Is natural that the children of stock holm should take their studies somewhat more seriously than children in american cities yet when the summer vacation season arrives no youngsters in the world enter upon ht e outlook frolics with greater joy the chi iron iren of the wealth lar classes accompany their parents to summer homes the city many of them situated on the countless Is innis inn Is which dot SN sweden edens s baltic short line yet even een here they pur sue their studies in natural history with the lest test of a sport fond of study stud and sports one nf of the distinguishing charne of the stockholm youth Is his film fondness for sports with a special predilection for that most graceful of nil all eahl of skill javelin association ball playing with ft ath a round football in which the head la Is used very largely as the ilaf force Is the na an live tive sport of the country while bi cycle endurance aces skiing alling and skating and boating honting in cumiler are alto 1 extremely popular uen the long daya days hebin to grow shorts when the atu todo to do middle class and the aristocracy return from their country estates when the autumn rains set in and the lights begin to twinkle in apart ment windows in the early after noon only the very wealthy can at at ford jo live in private homes in stockholm the social life of the city awakens from its summer alp then comes conies a long succession of dinners eales theater parties opera and suppers at least one feature of this social life must meet with the hearty approval of the average american annn of afra affairs Irs there Is in no such obligation as its a dinner call swedes do n mt nt t visit informally nor would it ever eer occur to a stockholm woman to telephone a friend and say that flint the expected to call enit one goei to it friend a home only when he or ehe she lias tins been in kited but accented accepted nuch much an invitation he obligates himself to reciprocal entertainment thus the th to drasny weary winter round be bb kina gins |