Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-15
DENMARK.

Representatives from the cities as
we'll as the rural districts have attend
ed convention in Copenhagen to dis
cuss the proposition of Incorporating
sloyd (manual training) as a regular
branch in the public schools of the
kingdom. Axel Mikkelsen, an emf
nent authority on sloyd as a study, add
dressed the convention and made such
a favorable impression upon his audi
ence that the advocates of the new de-
parture in public education were high
ly encouraged.
The hotel in Skagen will be changed
to a mission hotel.
The Handlers soap factory at Amager
was badly damaged by fire, and forty
men were thrown out of work.
The method of treating skin dis
eases by means of red light has been
practiced for about five years by DR..
Finscn, Copenhagen physician.
Strange as it may seem, the discovery
made by Finsen did not attract much
attention outside of Denmark at the
time, but now it is presented to- the
world in an attractive form by an il
Illustrated article in the British Medical
Journal.
civilian Shakespeare, a Critical
Study by Georg Brandes, has been
published by the Macmillan company,
New York. Says the Independent of
the book: 1T is indeed a welcome ap-
partition. 1t is a supremely attractive
and informing book. Every Shakes
pearean student must have it at his
elbow. 1t is history, criticism, appre-
cation, social study and life contem-
porary with Shakespeare all in one."
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
The New York Sun sizes up the po-
litical situation of Scandinavia in the
following unbiased and intelligent
manner: "The fruitlessness of the eff
forts OF the Finlanders to save them
| selves from complete absorption by
| Russia is bringing to the front with
greater force than ever the question of
a Scandinavian union as the sole means
of saving the Scandinavian peoples
| from the dangers that threaten them.
The classification of Finland has
brought the Russian frontier up to
| that Of Sweden, and has involved Swe-
den in heavy expenditure for arms
and Notifications, and for an increase
of the navy. This expenditure was
readily acquiesed in, even by the anti
militarists, on account of the emer-
gency of the occasion. Unfortunately,
the antagonism between Norway and
Sweden weakens the national strength
and prevents the establishment of any
thing like solidity. between the three
Scandinavian States. Still, the fate of
Finland has not left the Norwegians
unconcerned, and their Indignation
has been quite as strong as that of the
Swedes. 1t has also done something
to check the tendency of some Norwe-
gian politicians, as Hjalmar Granting,
Russia. But the radical difference be-
tween the peasant democracy of Nor
way and the conservative aristocracv
of Sweden is too deeply founded to
disappear at once, even with equal
dangers threatening them both; and
he doubts that the warning of the fate
of Finland is yet understood to it's full
extent by the two peoples. For that
reason he regards a Scandinavian
union on the modernized ground of the
old medieval Scandinavia, a confedera-
ton for peace and neutrality of Swe-
| den, Norway and Denmark, as the best
guarantee for combined integrity. For
Europe, solid Scandinavian confed-
Grafton of nearly ten millions of inhab-
itants would be factor not to be over
looked, and it's neutrality would be re-
spected in future conflicts"