SEVENTEEN] CONCLUSION 
Sure enough; tne wall on one side held shelves liter- 
ally full of tumblers of jellies and jars of preserved 
fruits. “All my own putting up, out of our own 
garden! Do you hear that? Nobody else’s stuff 
— except the pineapple and orange.” The op- 
posite shelves were filled with Hubbard squashes 
and golden pumpkins. At one end hung bunches of 
herbs. It was clear that my friend was in love with 
the country. “Oh, yes,” she said, “the snow and 
cold weather can’t be kept out of the country, nor 
out of the city, either; but a country house can be 
made so comfortable that we rather enjoy a storm. 
There is just one drawback, that of cleaning roads; 
but that is managed by the pathmaster mostly.” 
The reaction to country life affects Europe nearly 
as much as the United States. Denmark is con- 
spicuous for having created a reverse current of 
population. She has within a few years reclaimed 
two thousand square miles of previously waste 
land, and with this movement she is increasing her 
exports with great rapidity. Danish farmers and 
other land-owners have formed codperative soci- 
eties, in order the more perfectly to handle produce 
and control foreign markets. The country folk 
have four hundred banks for the deposit of small 
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