Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-11-24
Interesting News From Sweden,
Norway and Denmark
SWEOISHARTISTS WIN LAURELS
Norwegians Aroused by Statements of
DR.. Observation-Disclosures Dispute
for Court of Arbitration.
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Henry Goddard Leach, in a recent
article entitled Making a Nation of
Artists" says: Many young artists
are growing up with the national
crafts movement in Sweden. Among
them Prince Eugene has yielded prece-
dence to a great trio of painters who
are truly sons Of the people-Zorn,
the son of a farmer; Liljefors, the son
of a shopkeeper, and Carl LARSON,
the son of a day laborer. Since 1900
a host of younger Swedish painters
has arisen, whose works are winning
recognition in the art centers of Eu-
rope. The Industrial art movement,
spreading among the rank and file of
the people, has discovered dormant
genius and enlisted 1t. AS a by
product has come, together with the
industrial arts, a sudden and unex-
pected outburst of the fine arts, of
painting, sculpture and architecture.
New statues and new public buildings
are rising everywhere in Sweden to-
day, testifying to her renaissance. In
the Royal Museum of Art at Stock
holm the visitor may see the inspired
Carl LARSON decorating the walls
with his gigantic mural paintings. de-
picting the history of Swedish art,
rapidly working, as Kipling would say,
with brushes of comets hair" And
in the public and private galleries he
will be impressed. not as in the art
collections Of other countries, by the
works of the old masters, but by the
productions of living artists, in whose
freshness and virility lie the promise
Of a glorious future. ~
1T Is gratifying to note,' says a
Stockholm paper, that foreign cotn.
tries are beginning to take an interest
in our public school system. Recently
DR.. Andrew Draper was sent to Swe-
den to make a thorough study of the
public school system and he reported
that he is convinced of the superiority
of that system to the one followed in
American schools. He holds that the
Swedish system may easily be intro
duced in America. DR.. Draper found
that there is no such a thing as ig-
a in Sweden and he gives the
schools of the country credit for that
fact"
The National Anti-Tuberculosis as
ISOLATION has decided that it will this
year give stipends for nurses who
wish to train themselves to care for
patients afflicted with tuberculosis.
Everything must be done to encour-
age nurses to take hold of this kind
OF work, which on the face Of it can
not be very pleasant. There are, how
ever a large number of nurses who
are availing themselves of these sti-
ponds and many of them are now TAX
Ing a course at the various SANTA
RUINS throughout the country.
The rumor that the Hotel Rydberg
had been sold to the Scandinavian
Bank and Trust company Is without
foundation. The big hostelry will con.
tinue to do business at the old stand,
but it is very probable that an Inn
mense new hotel building will take
the place of the old one. Rydberg is
still a popular place for the middle
classes and has been doing a splendid
business, especially in the last ten
years, when the tourist traffic began
to increase at such a rapid rate.
The Socialists of Stockholm are
greatly pleased with the recent revo-
luton in Portugal. Some of them pre-
dict that the same thing will happen
In Sweden. but there is little indica-
ton of anything stirring at present.
especially after the failure of the great
strike, which was in full swing in
Sweden about this time a year ago.
Professor Svante Arrhenius will de-
part for the United States in the
spring. where he will deliver a series
of lectures on genealogical subjects
at Boston and New Haven, Conn. 1t is
also possible that Professor Arrhenius
may deliver a lecture at Augustana
college at Rock Island. ILL.,, and at
Bethany college. Lindsborg, Kan.
The first steamer from Stockholm
bouuu lOT CuDd leIt Oct.
"a, via ~Gothenburg and Christiania. II
was the Danish steamer Queen Olga
and carried a cargo consisting OF 1000
tons of Swedish lumber bound for Ha.
vana.
Emigration figures continue to in.
crease at what Is regarded in Sweden
as an alarming rate. During the first
nine months of the present year 90.
651 persons have left the country. OF
these 1851 were men and 7,l40 wo-
men.
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DR.. Nansen has troubles Of his own
since he delivered that lecture In
which he stated that the story about
Left Erickson discovering America in
the year 1000 was a myth. His coun-
trymsn are up in arms against him
and all the educators Of the country
have taken issue with him and the