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DURING the last few years of the period
1860—70 and the beginning of the
succeeding decade, there arose in
Sweden a movement which, having at first
a purely political-economical character,
was finally transformed into a pedagogic
question. In the countries of the North,
the light nights of the short summers
are soon succeeded by long, dark winter
evenings. The agricultural population cannot then work in
the fields and meadows but, in accordance with the custom
of their forefathers, these people are obliged at such times
to find employment within the four walls of their cottages.
Here, in olden times, the members of each family —
and amongst this number the servants were also included
— gathered readily around the stone-hearth, upon which
a warm, bright fire of large logs blazed merrily and, to
the strains of a ballad or a hymn, or while listening
to one of the many northern legends of giants and
hobgoblins, of brave champions and fair maidens, each
one’s fingers were busied with some suitable occupation.
The men, for example, made rake-pegs, axe-helves, spoons,
ladles, benches, tables and other articles necessary for
farm-work or the home, often ornamenting each object
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