Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1903-10-17
Recent Occurrences of Interest
in Sweden, NorNay and
Denmark.
ATTAT ON AMERICAN PEOPLE
Gross Misrepresentation Made in an
Article by John Hertz, q Swed-
ish Journalist.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

\
has written an article slandering th
United Sta tes, stating that money il
the cd of America, that the education
Of tie 4'I-c.'ican people is defeAiye
and pictures the American woman al
a tyrant and fetch. The article wa'
blad, ore of the leading newspaper:
In othenburg, and is considered ever
in Sweden as one of the grOsSeSt, mis-
representations of the United States
which has ever appeared in Sweden
| The journalist Hertz, makes the fol
lowing statement anent Americans
/ generally: Americans are barbar
ians, women as well as men; yet they
believe themselves to- have monopoly
on the culture of all the world. They
spurn all foreign influence, all for
etgn conditions, even adj foreign knowl-
edge" OF American. school methods
this keen" Swedish observer says
"In school they teach their children
very little, but this is eXcusable or
explainable because they do not know
more themselves. The principal sub
ject is ,-le study of lower arithmetic
the higher is not needed for stock
jobbing in Wall street-Amersican
geography and American history; the
two sub .ects of study last mentioned
may also be expressed by the Ameri-
can term American panegyric'. In
America it is all for money Yankees
have no consideration for anything at
all-eXcept their wonderland the
word conscience is not put down in
the exchange quotations from Wall
street" OF American women the
Swedish writer says in part: ''She is
the most remarkable variant of the
race. Her hair is made up into
porous swelling frizette and her great
est ambition is to be able to open hen
lips to a broad grin, displaying the
glittering walls of a tremendous gold
mine, etc. They write, paint, cut
marble, preach mOrllS-but do not live
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS laws, dabble in re-
ligion and bless their fellow creatures
with all the absurdities which are the
fruits of misdirected female Efforts
Says Il writer who comments on MIR.
Hert:;'s unc;illed for attack: 'In may
be added that this attack meets with
little sympathy in Sweden. In con-
siGer;;t ioIi Of American liberality in
the time Of the recent famine and of
the fact that so many thousands of
Scandinavians have found comfortable
homes and established families in the
United States the publication of such
d diatribe is considered in very bad
taste"
Kristina Nilsson, the Countess de
Casa Miranda, paid a visit to the
Masonic orphanage Sept. 10 and after
listerning to the children's program,
consented to sing song for the lit
tie ones. The famous prima donna sat
down at the little organ and to her
own accompaniment sang the old
familiar folk song "When 1 was Four
teen" In spite of her age Countess
Miranda's voice is wonderfully we'll
and she could to this very
day appear to splendid advantage in
the CONCERT salon,
The recent NJ. Davidson, proprietor
Oh "Hasselbacken," has in his will
donated the sum of 100000 crowns
which shall be divided between diff
ferent charity institutions and organ
izations. Of this sum, $4,000 crowns
has been donated the Old Women
Servants Union, $4,000 crowns TO
school colonies, 10000 crowns for gen
eral charity work, 10000 crowns to the
Sofia homo and $4,000 to the pub
1sher'S pension fund.
The dedication of the Oscar church |
at Narvavagen on Ostermalm took |
place Sept 90 The beautiful edifice |
was crowded to it's greatest capacity.
Ind the services were attended by
King Oscar, CroWnprince GUSTAV
Prince Carl and Princess Ingeborg and
Prince and Princess Bernadotte The
services were conducted by Arch
bishop Ekman.
The thfrtieth anniversary of the
Sord1ska museum, founded .by DR.
Arthur Hagelius, will be observed Oct
4. line museum was opened Oct. "a.
1913, and from it's modest start has
low grown to be the largest museum
northern Europe and is naturally
he pride of all Sweden. The ami
'ersary festivities will be held on
Skansen.
King Oscar has now reigned as king
II Sweden longer than any Swedish
since Gustavus Wasa. Until
'ept. p of the present year the place
elonged to King Fredrik l, who was
SWeden's ruler for thirty-one years
nd two days.
Marquis Claes Lagergren. who
erved as Swedish emissary to Pone
.eo NH, has by Pope Plus x been
ppointed as the official papal rem.
sentative of Sweden
Queen Sofia will spent part Of the
inter in Italy. She will be accom-.
anied by Crownprincess Victoria
mo always spends her winters in the
To-, |