Morris tribune., 1912-02-16
OF INTEREST TO
SCANDINAVIANS
Recent Happenings in This
Country and Abroad.
SWEDISH WOMAN'S NOVEL IDEA


Organizes Singing Club Among Her
Domestics and Their Friends-GoV-
eminent Ownership in Scandina-
Wan Countries Praised by United
States Senator-Member of Faculty
Of Copenhagen University Visits the
Twin Cities.
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Nine. Alice Tegner, a prominent
resident of the charming villa COM
munity of Diurshelm, near Stockholm,
has started new idea for dealing
with the household question. To make
life brighter for her maids she has or
ganized a singing club for them and
their friends. In the first instance
she intended only to gather the domes-
tic songstresses once a month, but
the idea was taken up with such en-
thusiasm and there were so many
good voices available that Nine. Teg-
ner has induced her fellow mistresses
to allow their help to gather once
fortnight. The new movement has
given pleasure to all concerned and
some say it will lead to the discovery
of fresh Swedish nightingale. There
are still many charming voices, they
point out, in the land of Jenny Lind
and Christina Nilsson. While the
good cause is progressing there are
hundreds of householders with pri-
vate doubts about the enterprise, for
every two weeks there are no maids
to answer calls and every day the
kitchens ring with budding Tetraz-
zinis practicing their scales.
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H. Reuterdal, a Swedish artist re-
siding in New York city, has again
come into the limelight and succeed
ed in creating quite stir by trying
to prove that the navy of the United
States is highly defective in many re-
spects. About two years ago Reuter-
dial wrote an exceedingly sensational
article regarding the Swedish navy
for which he was severely censured,
but it was afterwards proven that
there was an element of truth in some
of his contentious. Reuterdal some
how has the regard of a great many
of the naval officers at Washington in
spite Of his rather severe array of the
defects of the American navy.
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Anders Zorn, the famous Swedish
portrait painter, and Sven Kjellstrom
had narrow escape from death while
returning to Mr.. Zorn's home in Mora
the other evening. They were about
to cross the track near Mora and, it
being dark, did not see the approach
ing train rounding curve. They sue
ceeded in pulling back their spirited
horse just in time, but came very near
being run over. Mr. Zorn afterwards
stated that it was the most miraculous
escape that he had ever experienced
and he has travelled in nearly every
civilized country on the globe.
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Friends and admirers of the Swed-
ish author, August Strindberg, will be
glad to learn that the latest dispatches
from Sweden state that he is on the
road to recovery from his recent Sc
we're illness. It is also stated that
S01t c4 of thn
recent festivals and contributions in
his honor that he soon expects to be
in the harness again, when he contem-
plates completing what he considers
will be his masterpiece in Swedish
drama.
Never in the history of the country
has there been such a marked in
crease in Swedish exports as during
the past twelve months, says the Sta
tistisk Tidskrift. Since 1909 it has
increased from GIG, 100000 to 671, OO0,-
900 crowns. Imports have also in
creased at marvellous rate, showing
a gain of over 12O,000,OOO crowns in
less than year and half
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DR.. Sven Hedin, the famous AsiatiC
explorer, has written a forty-page
treatise regarding Sweden's defense,
which will circulate generally through
out the country. DR.. Hedin makes a
strong plea for Sweden's Notifications
and defenses and urges the impor-
lance of taking advantage of the nat
ural defense resources of the country
i. !. !.
King Gustaf gave court ball Jan
Is which was attended by all the high
functionaries of court and a large
number of riksdag representatives and
members of the diplomatic corps and
Dheir ladies. About 1900 persons
participated in the ball.
4. i
Rev. Anna Shaw, who is at the
head of the American National Wo
mems Suffrage association, has sent
a congratulatory telegram to King
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