THE COUNTRY HOME [CHAPTER 
savings. ‘The Danish University and its students 
have instituted free lectures, with evening lectures, 
all over the country — besides promoting popular 
amusements, distributing cheap literature, and 
opening offices for free legal advice. Clubs are 
formed in music, gymnastics, and cycling, and 
there are debates conducted for the advantage of 
the rural population. In all ways country life has 
become exceedingly attractive. Very much remains 
for our own government to learn from Denmark, 
especially in the way of establishing Postal Savings 
Banks in our villages. 
By going to the country we are not only helping 
ourselves, but are aiding the solution of the great 
social problem, how to make man out of the mass, 
and something better than masses out of men. 
Nearly one million a year from Europe’s herded 
population comes to our shores for citizenship. All 
but four per cent. drop into tenements. The social 
salvation of America rests with the country. There 
is land enough for a population of five hundred 
millions. ‘The unimproved lands of the Northwest 
constitute about fifty per cent. of the area. Maine 
has eighty-eight per cent. of her land still unim- 
proved, Pennsylvania, fifty-five per cent., while 
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