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e WIFE OF SWEDISH MINISTER TEL

netism and the way they could communi-
cate their spirit to the recruit.
Catherine Booth, wife of Gen. Booth,
whom we lovingly call the Mother of
the Salvation Army was one of the won
derful women of the century. She was
certainly the most powerful and eloquent
public speaker of the gentler sex OF this
generation and she blazed the way for
woman to aid in the work of salvation
practically and without encroachng on
the prerogative long bestowed on man.
My eldest daughter was born in London,
and soon after my husband believed him
self sufficiently informed to take up the
work in Stockholm. we ventured to
Sweden. and then the cares of my family
Il have seven children-made my active
participation in my husbands labors i'm
possible.
But I have never ceased to take an
interest in the Salvation Army and to
follow the work. ! am proud of the
power and influence which the army has
acquired in Sweden. Perhaps you do not
know that my country was the first to
recognize the army officially and to utilize
it's machinery for the distribution of char
ity. 'Fralsnings Armeen,' as the people
call it, has an accepted mission, and its
province is yearly increasing. There are
steam kitchen where every one gets food
when the need is proven by competent
authority. The POOR apply to the police
or the officials in certain sections and they
are given a ticket. For this ticket pre-
Of soup. vegetables. bread and meat is
given. and it may be eaten at the place
or taken away. Meals are likewise
sent to those who are known to be in
need without their application
Army Disburses Charities.
Every variety of municipal charity is
looked after by the army. There Is day
nursery for young children whose mothers
must labor. There is an employment
bureau for women and girls from the
country and a good home until they are
permanently settled-everything which
aids in an emergency. But all my ener-
gits have always been expended in pro-
viding means for poor people to get suff1-
Gent work 10 raise them above accept
ing municipal charity. My husband is
fervent follower of Gen. Booth in this es-
sential.
In Stockholm. where the Salvation
Army headquarters are situated, every
effort is made TO upbuild those institutions
designed to become self-supporting. We
have woodward where unemployed men
may earn their breakfast or perhaps
suitable clothing to wear In seeking work
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boiled down and SKINNED of ought to
make good soup stock.
II think myself Mrs Aston was right
The only statesman of the present day
who's really qualified to make a hit IN
society is the kind that gets elected 70
Congress occasionally from 4 gobcln a.
estry district and spends his term at
Washington giving clever imitation of a
suit OF clothes partially inhabited by an
ostensible person. But. on the other hand.
you'd never gather from Uncle Joe's gen.
eral walk and conversation that he ever
devoted a spare hour to running baby
blue ribbons in his undershirt. And he 4
have to have his profile filed down so that
1t wouldn't look much like the coast
line of the Atlantic seaboard. north OF
Cape Hatteras. and learn to wear hose tn
match his carnation before he could hope
to fit in with the cotillon set. Even then
he wouldn't feel at home in society, and
neither would society.
Anyway. after Uncle Joe had had his
say and Frederick Townsend Martin had
had his twitters. Mrs. CORVALLIS West.
who used to be Lady Randolph Churchill.
contributed some pertinent remarks to the
discussion, and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
chimed In for the defense, and others took
1t up, and now every hired girl in the
country Is watching the society column
OF the daily press with bated breath for
further contributions to the controversy.
/ can't recall anything of late years that
has been so generally exciting except
New York newspapers great plan to form
an alliance between the United States and
Mrs Tsi An, the widow lady that's run
ming China
You can't steer me away from politics
yet awhile" said the House Detective.
I'm thinkin' purity strong of votin' the
socialist ticket. The socialist speakers be-
lieve in changing things.
Some of them believe in changing
everything but their Shirts, said the
Hotel Clerk.
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that his former countrymen are among
the thrifty and successful pioneers and
not among the pauper emigrants When
we have the leisure said madam M
LagarcrantZ and / will go to every spof
hallowed by Swedish industry and cour-
age. to your New Sweden, as some sec
tions are called We wish to see the vast
empire part of the United States which
has been built up by our Scandinavian
people. and to see with our own eyes
what they have given to the new world"
The New Swedish Legation.
Just now Nine. de Lagercrantz is busy
preparing to take possession Of the new
Swedish legation, which is the fine man.
sion recently erected by former Senator
John e. Henderson of Missouri at the head
of 10th street. The mansion is one of the
collection of splendid homes built after
foreign models and happens to be of the
Spanish type, replica of the famous
archiepiscopalan palace of Salamanca. NJ.
Lagercrantz. with the conservatism of his
race. prefers his own house gods, and the
furnishings will come principally from the
Stockholm residence. The establishment
of a Swedish legation marks an era in
social Washington. and il is one OF the
pleasant antcipations of the winter that
1t opens under such brilliant auspices.
The Swedish minister during the past six
teen years. NJ. Grip. was a bachelor who
sional excursion into Vanity Fair.
Nine. de LagercrantZ will present her
two daughters. Miss Mary and Miss Eva,
who. though formally presented at court
in Stockholm and to official society in
their home capital. spent last winter
abroad and have not yet experienced the
joys of Washington winter. They are
charming, unaffected girls, as one would
expect from such delightful parents, and
they look forward to the season with z-st.
Nine. de LagercrantZ will take her part
in social life quietly and unostent atiously.
She Is opposed to all display and dislikes
notoriety attaching to her purely per-
sonal affairs. Her daughters will accom-.
pany her on the rounds of visits obliga-
tory and will assist at the receptions
Dinners will be given in season and per-
haps few functions planned for young
people only. But all social plans are Q
little hazy at this season. Nothing be-
comes definite until the official program
is announced from the White House. and
the diplomatic corps may decide on dates
without fear of conflicting with state
ceremonials.
Copyright, 1908. by Margaret B. Downilsl
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vast music-loving population. We also
have our reverence and pride in your
eral years in Lund. where the great uni
versity is situated He studied under
E,safs Tegner. one Of our famous poets
and for half century professor of Greek
at the university. The sagas of Long
fellow are part of our literature as well
as of yours and we take equal pride in
his other beautiful songs.
Life with US, of course. is different,
but / look forward TO a winter in Wash
ington with keen anticipation. Most of
my life was passed in the country estate
Of my father. but l lived i'll Stockholm
many years and have visited all the his
tonc spots Of my country. We Swedes
are an open-air people, and though We
have a short summer we enjoy every mo-
ment to the full Some idea of this ma
tional trait may be obtained by knowing
that we have In our land over 1.40O lakes
and !, 100 islands, and there are summer
homes on or near all; scores OF them, as
thick as comfort and privacy will al
low. Those who cannot afford house
have a tent, and cook their meals in the
primitive ways of the fathers-a fagot
fire and kettle or two. The richer class
have the summer home full OF guests
and there is visiting and gala time
during the warm, genial days. which are
all too short. In the winter every one OF
the higher class lives in Stockholm. and
though we have national customs ana our
own methods OF conducting our social
amenities life there differs but slightly
from life In every capital of the civilized
world
Is Worker Among Poor.
Nine. de Lagercrantz.. though punctil-
lious 20 her social duties and making ex
tensiye plans for the winter, still nnds
her keenest pleasure in visiting the poor
er sections of the city and in studying
the methods of conducting municipal al
fairs. Washington seems to me happy
place" she said, for there is little evil
dent poverty. 1t is here. Of course. as IN
every city where the population goes over
the hundred thousand. but 1t seems the
picturesque poverty and not the saualor
and misery which one sees In New YORK
and London.
Madam has visited the headquarters OF
the Associated Charities, and of all the
religious societies which look after par
ticular classes of human need. At her
leisure she will go to all the large Ameri-
con cities, especially those of the north
west. where the Swedes reside in the
largest numbers. But 1t is her pride. as
well as the minister's, n. Lagercrantz.
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which has never been done SO. with a
row of seemingly human feet showing
below the front draperies. and police
man asleep in front chair and haunt
ing smell of gin out of a bottle eddying
elusively to and fro in the brooding air.
So you take your ballot. which is about
the size of a bed quilt and retire with
it into one of the cheesecloth sanctuarifs
and unfurl 1t. and find that instead of
the great name which has looked down on
you from every other street banner dur
ing the last few months it contains some
lists Of gentlemen that are total strangers
to you. You then take in your right hand
the pencil which generous government
has expressly provided for the purpose. it
being all of two inches long, and is tied
down at one end with string, and was
evidently sharpened in a great hurry by
a gentleman who nlslaid his pocket knife
and had to use his front tseth. only they
must have been but Indifferent teeth at
best
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also sent his f1edgling through college-'tis
said the young man will get his diploma.
carpet mill or no-but, unlike the elder
Reds. Mr.. Roosevelt's business wasn't
one at whose bottom he could very we'll
start his son, although true enough. John
Adams did indenture his boy to learn the
presidential trade.
Rockefeller Boys Start.
The university is considered a prerequi-
site by most of our great daddies, few
of whom had it's advantages themselves.
There is John D. Rockefeller, for a
notable example. He sent his son and
namesake to Brown, where he took
the lead in religious work and was
treasurer of the varsity foot ball team.
Young Reid, by the way, played on
the Yale eleven. John D., jr.. began
at the bottom. down at the offices of
the Standard Oil Company, after leaving
college, and so industriously did he apply
himself to the art of making money that
he injured his eyesght at the sendon.
So those who have since seen this stocky,
square shouldered young man remember,
most of all. that he wears very heavy
glasses. While he was at college and
serving his apprenticeship at o6 Broad
way he lived frugally az poor man s
son, and only lately he was quoted as say
ing that thirty cents Is enough for any
man to spend for his luncheon. His
cousins, William G. and Percy A., were
similarly started in at the bottom In the
Standards offices.
Young Hill and Havemeyer in
Overalls.
j. J. HILL the multi millionaire builder
of the northwest made his eldest son
Louis Jump into overalls and learn rail-
reading from the shop up. He made
good and his father made him president
of the Great Northern. II. o. Hayemeyer
hasn't sent his boy Horace-now twenty
two-to college at all. but has put him
early to work in his sugar refinerfes. Will
liam C. Whitney. however. sent his boy.
Harry Payne, through Yale and then
started him in banking house at $50
week.
Thomas F. Ryan has set up his sons.
Arlan A. (aged twenty-eighD and Glen
denim j. nwenty-four), In a banking and
brokerage firm of their own, which they
call Ryan Brothers, His eldest son,
j. B.. now thirty-three. manages the Ryan
estate. at Suffern. N. Y. while his young
est son, Joseph j.. is a student at George
town University, to which Catholic insti
tuition the mother has donated a wing
known as Ryan Hail.
Young William Vincent Astor-son of
Col. John Jacob-who will probably be the
manager of the bulk of the vast Aston
real estate in New York, was put through
our st. Pauls School, and is now at
England's historic Elton. where lately has
been sent the thirteen-year-old grandson
and $12aOOO.oOO heir of Marshall Field.
This future prince of finance is now but
thirteen, and he and young Aston are
playing ball with the sons of the nobility
of England. with whose fathers the old
college has been a favorite since it was
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LIS OF SALVATION ARMY WORK IN HER COUNTRY

There are laundries for women who live
in tenements and have no place to wash
their clothes. or where they may earn
little money washing for others. In thesa
are tubs. every appliance for manipulat
ing the Misunderstanding. drying and tn"
ironing. all free. Soap and starch mus
be furnished by the applicant. or it will
be given few times gratis in cases OF
lighthouses with pools attached. where
the poor may have bath and swim with
good soap and towels provided for cents.
In poor sections coffee rooms are set up in
opposition to saloons. where an excellent
meal very appetizingly prepared may be
obtained for nominal sum. These rooms
are made attractive with growing plants
and dainty napery and table service,
and they are wonderful aids.
Caring for Convicts.
Another most commendable charity
under the direction of the Salvation Army
in Sweden is the care of convicts and
prisoners generally after they have served
their sentence. On the release of each
prisoner from the penitentiary or local
jail he is given into the charge of des-
ignated section of the army, usually away
from his former habitation, or where he
has served his time. He is taken in and
given a certain time to gather his shat
tered forces. Always he Is treated with
kindness and every effort is made to
arouse his moral nature and to appeal to
the best which is in him. He is then given
opportunity to work. and IL he proves
even in a small degree worthy he has u
chance to redeem his past. Ii he shows
disposition TO idleness or viciOusness he is
warned. Only after repeated failures the
army. with it's military precaution of
keeping discipline. reports his case. and
he Is kept under surveillance to detect
any return to crime. AS q preventive
measure this course has been found ex-
cellent.
II need not dwell on what the Saliva
ton Army has done for the cause Of tenn
perance all over the world as we'll as in
Sweden. 1t claims that hundreds of thou
sands of confirmed drunkards have been
converted from their ways and as total
abstinence is a condition of membership
this may be readily comprehended In
Sweden q system called the Gothenberg
method of regulating the liquor traffic is
prevalent. This means to recognize that
the habit Of drinking intoxicants cannot
be entirely eradicated. but that the evil
resulting therefrom may be minimized by
practical regulations. Like all successful
temperance propaganda, 1t does not at
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IN Herman de LagercrantZ. envoy OF
the King Of Sweden. Washington
has been presented TO a new type.
man of high birth, deep learning
and exalted political station, he de-
vofed the early years Of his life &c ameh-
Grating the condition OF the poor. Fol-
owing the example of that noble prince
of Sweden, then crown prince ana NJ"
king, he became enthusiastic over inc
vista opened by the Salvation Army anu
he gave up public life and political am
b,tion to become a disciple of Gen
Booth. That he was called from the
work he selected to high preferment IN
the councils of state Is proof mat IN
Sweden at least the ONCE seeks tne
I,azercrantz may also be counted as
type entirely different from the usual
chatelaine of a foreign legation Like
her husband she comes of old and arls-
tocratic lineage Her father. Nd. de Crone-
berg was a powerful politician ard land
owner in central Sweden and served
quarter of a century in the Swedish SEN
ate. Her home In Stockholm was one Of
luxury and refinement, Not less pre-
tertious was the great country estate
maintained by Senator de Croneberg.
where she spent all her earlier years. Her
betrothal to NJ de Lagercrantz meant 70
espouse the career he had chosen. Though
size could have remained at court, sur
bad been accustomed. >he joyfully gave
ID such a future. and Immediately after
her marriage set out for London, where
her husband was studying the organiza-
tion of Gen. Booth.
Impressions of the Booths.
I'VE lived for many months in Lon
don in daily communication with Gen.
and Mrs Booth" said Nine. de Lager-
crantz 10 the writer "and that was
drinking life 10 the full Our home was
small and humble, very near the ma
tional headquarters of the Salvation
Army, in Queen Victoria street. and our
neighbors were only the poorest people.
But there we spent the happest days
When one realizes all that life means
the responsibilities to the neighbor to
the community, to humanity at large
then alone we find happiness and under
stand what ii means to live. My husband
had early been attracted to the propa-
ganda Of Gen. Booth. and l soon became
as enthusiastic as he. I knew Gen. and
Mrs. Booth very well. but II would re-
auire some one much more eloquent
than ! to describe their wonderful mag
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we're you expecting over?" asked the
Hotel Clerk. "the Mauretania. or Some
new opera singer with one of those v
SHAPED names that would make suitable
trimming for an underskirt If there was
only little more of ito''
Il mean the agony'H be over by this
time next Toosday night said the House
Detective: first Toosday after the first
Wednesday. you know
oh. the election. said the Hotel Clerk
But l wouldn't go so far as to speak Of
II AS being an agony, Larry. if l were
YOU So far as I've been able to Judge.
there's been very little acute suffering
anywhere unless you make an exception
for the feelings of Mr. Hearst when that
callous deputy sheriff obtruded on the
privacy of his drawing room compartment
and handed him the papers from Gov.
Haskell, he stood there. all defense
less, in his hand-painted impressionistic
pajamas. Or does Mr. Hearst sleep i'm a
simple shirt since he became one of the
peasantry.
Now, il you want to call il a slow
fever covering a period of three months,
with chilly sensations in the feet followed
by slowly rising temperature and slight
~ deirious mutterings during the last
week, / may be with you. but l wouldn't
care. in view of the present quiet condi-
tion of the patient. to make my language
any stronger than that.
ANY way, look for a complete and
satisfactory recovery by next Wednesday
evening at the very latest On election
morning those of us who don't forget 1t
will go to the barber shop or the under
takers parlors or the front Office OF the
livery stable, or wherever the place is
that has been selected as the temple of
our liberties and the bulwark of a repre-
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head of the family by his fathers will.
but the scandals that have recently at
tached to him and Reginald indicate a
reaction against the discipline enforced
during their boyhood. On the other hand,
their cousin. young William K. has a
desk in the Vanderbilt offices and it has
been predicted that he will some day
be the forceful head of the whole family.
His younger brother Harold s.. is fresh
out of college.
Two Mechanical Astors.
Speaking of Cornelius HIS mechanical
genius. John Jacob Astor Nv is naturally
gifted in the same way. He is a prac-
teal engineer and used to enjoy hand
ling the levers and throttles of locomotives
on the road. He built the first success
full electric storage battery launch in
America and has invented a turbine en-
CINE and a road scraper on which he
has taken out patents-probably just to
see if he could. for he has released them
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the known cases. their principal qualifica-
ton for the Job.
The principal fault I'd find with cleo
ton day, Larry. is that it's such short
and disappointing performance after an
extensive and exhaustive ballyhoo. It's
too much like following a circus process
sion all over town and back again to the
show lot, and winding UP under cook
tent where some elderly citizens of set
tied habits are playing checkers for the
root beer. After I've been going about
from late June until early November con-
templating the side-show banners and
having the gentlemanly agents walking
among me with tickets for the AFTER
show, and discussing the merits of the
star performers with the casual bystander
and listening to the outside barkers and
resisting the Establishments of the boost
ers and hearing the music, I naturally
feel that it's considerable of a cOme-down
to be called upon to cast my vote in the
same place where I go when the back Of
my neck needs shaving, and then spend
the rest of tiresome day waiting for the
hour when the artist behind the stereopti-
con screen will flash forth the tidings that
the man who was defeated by all the
straw ballots has been elected by nearly
all the real votes.
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founded and richly endowed by Henry vi
half century before Columbus discov-
cred America. One of its sights is the
''black hole" the cell containing the an
cient ''fogging block over which pupils
of former years knelt to be whipped for
such offenses as absence from roll call
Astors Like Soldering.
William Waldorf Astor has gotten his
son John Jacob V, now twenty-five, lieu
tenants commission in the English LIST
Life Guards. While this troop was at
swimming practice summer before last
trooper, kicked by horse. sank into
deep water Young Aston bravely dived
in and brought him up TO be finally re-
suscit ated.
This hobby for soldering seems inner
ent in the Astor blood. John Jacob III, 1t
may be remembered, was on Mcclellan s
staff in the civil war, while John Jacob
" gave battery to our army for the
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pire state and William Astor Chanler.
who has been a representative in Con-
gress from New York. Lewis was edu-
Gated at Cambridge. England. and went
through Columbia Law School. William
took up soldering. and went to the front
in the Spanish war, receiving special
commentator for his part in the siege
and battle of Santiago.
Another great-great-grandson Of the
first John Jacob Astor Is young Peter
Augustus Jay. son of Augustus Jay, who
in 1876 married Emily Aston Kane. great
granddaughter of the founder of the fam
fly. He chose a diplomatic career, and
six years ago when scarcely more than
of age, was appointed third secretary of
our embassy at Paris. whence he was
promoted in less than year to the sec
ond secretaryship at Constantinople,
where he became full secretary in 1906.
Last year he was again advanced to the
secretaryship at Toxic. William Waldorf
Astor it may be remarked, dabbled in