Peeps at many lands: Sweden

days bright and happy, as well as useful. Their teachers are highly educated, and are very much respected, i

examination are allowed to enter. The children go at the age of seven and remain at school until they are fourteen. They get a very thorough training in very much the same subjects as in our schools. There are no holiday

er comes for four months in the year, and then proceeds to anoth

rinted in Swedish, but there are also a large number in English, French, and German. They are not there for appearance, but are actually read, as th

ped gymnasium. Very often the instructor is a military officer. Their system is being universally adop

which is in use throughout the whole world. From a very early age the children go out into the woods and collect plants, flowers, and leaves of trees. They are taught not only the names of the differen

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es are frozen over. In some schools a large room is set apart as a bathroom. There is no large bath or swimming pond, but a very simple arrangement of a number of tubs in a circle. A child goes into each. They wash and scrub one ano

aught to be very respectful to his elders. On the street he

go to a trade, or to a higher school wit

s is a very important step in his life. On the day of confirmation he is examined in the church, and has publicly

tion, and when he learns that he has been successful, he is very happy and bright. He comes out of the school wearing the w

ust be faithful to their study. There are no very young doctors in Sweden. They generally do not begin to practise till they are about twenty-eight years of age. Still, they find some time for social life at the University towns. They enter into the gaiety of the place, and are great favourites with the townspeople. The students from each district o

e taking a prominent part in the world's affairs. We sho