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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZIN 



Photograph by Maurice P. Dunlap 



SINDING'S VALKYRIE BRANDISHES HER SPEAR IN MODERN COPENHAGEN 



This warrior maiden of Northern folk-lore stands at the entrance to Langelinie Park, 

 where the northeast wind and the sunbeams, which, in Hans Christian Andersen's story, 

 fight over the infant Copenhagen, still have their "fling" at her. Many of Copenhagen's 

 statues reveal traces of the old Viking spirit still lingering in the modern Dane. 



is 15,586 square miles; it is one-twentieth 

 the size of Texas and about one-third the 

 size of New York State. 



North Schleswig is computed to con- 

 tain 1,507 square miles, and the addition 

 which its acquisition has brought to Den- 

 mark would make the whole population 

 about 3,220,000. The Faroe Islands are 

 part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Ice- 

 land, which formerly belonged to Den- 

 mark, became a free state in 1874, rather 

 gently ruled by the King of Denmark. 



The Danish West Indies, now the Vir- 

 gin Islands, were bought by the United 

 States in 1916 for strategic purposes, and 

 they now form a very important part of 

 the defense of the Panama Canal. 



Greenland is the only colony that Den- 

 mark now possesses. It is, in fact, a 

 monopoly of hers; and so far it has not 

 proved a valuable one. 



AGRICULTURE THE CHIEE INDUSTRY 



Denmark is almost exclusively devoted 

 to agriculture ; and yet not many more 

 than 1,000,000 persons follow the pur- 



suits of agriculture, forestry, and fishing. 

 This is shown by the statistics of 191 1. 

 The capital, Copenhagen, is a city too 

 large in proportion to the population of 

 the country; it contains 575,000 persons. 

 Aarhus comes next, with 65,000 ; Aalborg 

 has 35,000, and Odense, 40,000. 



To be as exact as possible, there are 

 250,000 farmers in the country, formed 

 into 4,000 cooperative societies, which 

 permeate all the economic relations of 

 life. These cooperative societies are the 

 proprietors of all the machinery for buy- 

 ing all that the farmer needs and dis- 

 tributing all that he produces and does 

 not consume himself. 



There is no graft; no middleman can 

 "corner" any articles of necessity; there 

 are no multi-millionaires, with excess 

 profits gained from home industries. In 

 fact, the Dane who would declare that 

 capital is the enemy of labor would be 

 looked on as an economic idiot, just as it 

 would seem equally idiotic to assume that 

 labor existed for the piling up of capital. 



In Denmark, money is not an end; it 



