Morris tribune., 1911-02-24
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President Bratlie is soon to with
draw as member of the storthlnS
and his seat will be occupifd d by Miss
Anna Rogstad, his alternate, who Will
be the first woman memhcr OF that
body. Though Norwegian women OBJ
tanned the franchise but recently the
movement really commenced in the
time of John Stuart Mill-toward the
middle of the Nineteenth century
and has been active since 1885, when
the first suffrage society was Or
ganized. During the past twenty-five
years countless resolutions and petl-
tions were forwarded to the storthing
asking for votes for women. Strange
to relate the suffrage leaders in Nor
way have had to contend less with
opposition offered by men than with
the apathy and resistance of the great
bulk of their own sex. Naturally the
work of agitation has had to be done
by a handful of faithful ones who saw
the importance of bringing about the
reforms they desired. The women
who have been most active in this
work are Miss Gina krogh, Mrs.
Ragna Nelson and Mrs. Fredrikke
Oman. These three suffraeettes have
to demand their rights and to gather
their forces to successfully bOmbard
the citadel of male prejudice. AS a
result of consistent and conscientious
agitation the last twenty-five years
have seen most of the sex disabilities
removed and the women of Norway
admitted to all professi0ls, They
have now a representative in the
storthing and chances are t'lat at the
next election there will be more.
AS regards divorce legislation
woman's vote is destined to
have little effect, for no nation has
gone farther than Norway in passing
laws calculated to insure woman's
matrimonial independence. Today
divorce may be secured by mutual
consent and the husband and wife SO
separated may marry again after a
year. If both parties do not agree
either the man or the woman may OBJ
tain divorce upon preseEt ting proof
of drunkenness, adultery, lunacy, de-
sertion, venereal disease O.. wasteful
extravaganza Either party may Sc
cure divorce if, previous to the mar
addicted to the use of alcoholic stim-
ulants or infected with some loathsOme
disease without having told the other
about it prior to the union. Indeed,
if the husband or wife me ely grows
tired of one another divoT e may be
secured on the grounds of incompati-
bility The laws of Norway make
exit from life in double harness equal
ly easy for rich and poor. All pro-
ceedings are conducted behind closed
doors and there is no publicity of any
sort, since the newspapers are not
gard to any case.
Last year was by far TIE best for
the canning industry of Norway. The
increase of the output was largely due
to the increased demand of foreign
markets for canned spring herring
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have had poor reputation. The
sales last year were almost 100 per
cent larger than in 1908.
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Denmark is one of the countries
that is doing a great deal to check
the ravages of tuberculosis. Every
year shows distinct gain on the part
of the work of the Anu-Tuberculosis
society, which just recently celebrated
its tenth anniversary. It's six sanitar-
iums now accommodate 600 patients
and the total cost of the institutions
is about $650.000. About 5000 patients
have been dismissed, 1885 are on
their way to recovery, 1,0'6 are con-
siderably better and 1855 are COM
paratively we'll. Only sixty-three pa
tients have died. Another series of
figures shows that those who were
dismissed did not have relapse and
are all doing remarkably we'll. This
society is doing a world of good in
the Scandinavian countries and espe-
cially so in Denmark.
There has been established in Paris
a French-Danish insurance company
with a capital of 100000 francs. OF
this amount third is Danish and the
balance French capital. The general
director Of the company will be the
Danish consul general, Wilhelm Han
sen, who has been. taking the initia-
tive in the organization of the new
company. The company starts out in
good hands and indications are that
it has a bright future ahead of itself,
A case of leprosy has been discov-
cred in Svendborg, where it is learned
that the wife of a telephone line re-
pairer has pronounced symptoms OF
leprosy. She is an Icelander and
came from that country to Denmark
five years ago. 1t is also learned