Morris tribune., 1910-10-21
TIDINCS FROM
SCANDINAVIA
Interesting News From Sweden,
Norway and Denmark
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Thousands of Swedish-Americans
! will be panied to learn of the death of
| Ottilie Adaline LijenkrantZ, who
passed away a few days ago at the
Streeter hospital at Chicago following
an operation. She was born in Chica-
go Jan. 10, 1875, and was graduated
from the old Dearborn seminary when
she was only seventeen years old.
Early in life she evinced literary abil-
! ity and she had not been out of school
but two years before her first book,
The Scrap That Jack Built" ap-
peared, work which was at once rec
ognized as one of high merit and
which was widely read among the
school children in Chicago. When she
had attained the age of twenty-five
her two most important works ap-
peared, "The ThraH of Left the
Lucky" and "The Ward of King Ca
! mute" All of Miss Lijenkrantz' works
were published in the English Ian
guage, but the scenes of her stories
! always had their setting in the land of
the North. Later on she wrote "The
Vinland Champions" and "Randvar
the Songsmith" and also a series of
short stories and sketches which have
appeared from time to time in the
! American magazines. Ottilie LIEN
krantz was the daughter of civil en-
gineer, Gustaf A. M. Lijenkrantz, who
| is a Swedish nobleman and in the en-
ploy of the United States government
| in Chicago. Miss Lijenkrantz was a
member of many literary societies
both in America and England and
leading fiction writer's among the mod
ern set of Americas authors.
The emigration records were broken
the last week in September, when not
less than 1,O74 persons departed for
America. The members of the Anti
Emigration society are nonplussed and
do not know what to think of the sit
uation. In spite of their aggressive
campaign people seem to emigrate in
| larger numbers than ever before. One
! prominent official in Gothenburg threw
up his hands the other day and eX-
claimed Sweden is losing some of
! her best people and the government
does not seem to care anything about
it," There is a general feeling that
the government should have taken
! hold of the emigration problem long
! years ago and prevented the exodus
which is now going on at more rapid
rate than ever before. America seems
to be the goal of the younger Swedish
! people and a notable feature of the
emigration situation is that large
number of those now emigrating re-
main in the large cities. The agricul-
tural classes have already gone in
large numbers and now it is the men
and women who have a trade that are
! starting to emigrate. Thus America
/ is getting the very best that Sweden
has to offer.
When Baron CederstrOm made his
| fight over the sound between Malmo
and Copenhagen some time ago he
naturally drew the conclusion that he
would be exempt from paying any
duty on his rigging in passing from
one country to the other. 1t would
seem that when he flew in the air he
would be entitled to its freedom. This
was, however, not the case, for the
customs officials charged him 1000
crowns for crossing the boundary. 1t
appears that aerial navigation is sub
iect to the same rules as that on terra
firma.
Lektor Waldenstrom, who recently
returned from the United States, de-
liyered a sermon in Stockholm. He
spoke to an audience of 5000 people
and criticised the Sunday sports very
severely, especially the way they were
being conducted in America. The
"lektor" took particular delight in
criticising the Americans for their
love of the sensational in their news
papers and also warned his country
men against emigrating to the United
States.
Dowager Queen Sofia will remain at
Eriksberg until the latter part of this
month, when she will return taGStock-
holm and make her home for re win
ter at Ulriksdal The aged queen is
now enjoying comparatively good
health and when in Stockholm takes
great pleasure in moving about among
the hospitals and the schools. Wher-
ever she sees an opportunity to render
some financial aid to the worthy poor
she will do so.
Stockholm has at present over 1000
registered automobiles. Two hundred
of them have been added to the list
since April 1. German, American and
French automobile firms are doing
land office business in all the large
cities of Sweden at present. The
country roads of Sweden are ideally
adapted for autoing and it will only