Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-24

ROOSEVELT IN SCANDINAVIA
All Are Waiting to Give Him the
Heartiest Of Welcomes.
DENMARK WILL SEE HIM FIRST
' isit in Copenhagen In May TO he
Followed by stay I'm ChristIana
and stockholm for Three
Days.
BY ERIC GRuNpMARK.

COPENHAGEN. April 23.-Cspecal Dis
patch to The Bee.)-All Scandinavia will
do honor to Mr.. Roosevelt. 1t is deeply
regretted here that the distinguished Amer
lean will only be able to spend one day
at the Danish capital but the Danes will
endeavor to make up in their warmth Of
their reception the shortness of the time
they will have to entertain him. An effort
was made to have Mr. Roosevelt make a
longer stay in Copenhagen, but he has
found 1t impossible to get here before May
8, and as he is scheduled to deliver his
Nobel Peace Prize address at Christiania
on May he can stay here only one day.
During his stop in Chrsuania he will
be the guest Of King Haaken at the Royal
Palace. On May he will leave Chris
tanta for Stockholm, where he is expected
to remain three days.
The Faculty of History and Philosophy
OF the Norwegian university has con
ferred upon Mr.. Roosevelt the degree of
doctor of philosophy. This intelligence was
/ communicated to Mr. Roosevelt by tele-
graph, and he Immediately returned his
thanks through the American minister in
! Christiania.
Big Name for the Baby.
The new Princess of Sweden's first
daughter and third child of the crown
princess is to be named Ingrld Victoria
Louise Margaretta, but despite this, is a
fine, healthy little girl. The crown prince
and crown princess are delighted at the
advent of a daughter, the two older child
! ren, the Dukes Of Westerbotten and Up
land, being boys.
New Mountain Climber.
| Mrs. Aubrey LeBlond, an Englishwoman,
has established record for mountain
climbing in Norway. Sixteen unnamed
peaks in all were assembled by Mrs Le-
Blond, who left the beaten track at Tomso
and on the summit of each height her
guide built up stone mound to tell future
climbers Of the peaks conquest
Wants His skeleton Back.
A remarkable case is reported from
Stockholm, in Sweden, where a wealthy
resident has been endeavorlng to recover
the ownership Of his skeleton. Twenty
years ago Albert Vystrom signed a con-
tract with the Royal Swedish Institute of
Anatomy making over his body after his
| death to the institution in return for a
sum OF money. Since then he has come
into possession of large fortune
and he is anxious to cancel. his contract
with the institute. The matter was brought
before the law courts but not only was
the case decided against him, but he was
even ordered to pay damages to the in
stitute for having extracted two teeth
without authorization, in contradiction to
his contract
Il Women In Norway.
Some interesting facts about women's
suffrage in Norway have been prepared
by Mr.. J. Castberg, ex-minister Of Justice
| in the Norwegian liberal cabinet. Mr..
Castberg says in Norway women got the
| municipal franchise in 1901 and the parlla-
mentary franchise in 1907. Men have uni
| versal suffrage, but the female suffrage
was at present confined to those women
who, themselves or through their hus-
bands paid taxes on a yearly income of at
least f2O. This limitation excluded about
100000 adult women out of 100000 With
the female franchise was combined eligi-
bility for parliament. The first time that
women exercised the franchise was at the
general election last autumn. Seventy per
cent of the enfranchised women voted
Women were divided on the same political
! lines as men. OF course there were excep-
tions, but as a rule the influence of the
/ family on the result of the election had
been doubled. Three women stood for par
Lament, but they were all defeated by
their political opponents. Only one woman
got elected as a members deputy-that
was, she would take the place Of a mem
ber who died or was absent through ILL
ness or any other cause On the whole,
1t might be said that the result of the
first exercise OF the parliamentary fran
chise by women in Norway was to awaken
the public spirit Of women