Morris tribune., 1913-02-28
OF INTEREST To
SCANDINAVIANS
Recent Happenings In This
Country and Abroad.
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In the Interesting People" depart
ment of the March American Maga-
zine appears an article about Gustaf
Fjaestad Swedens champion skater
and the worlds greatest painter of
snow scenes. He is temperamental I
descendant of the Vikings, with their |
rugged taste for outdoor sport and |
their love of beauty and color. He and |
his wife live north of the Arctic cir |
Gle outdoors practically all the year |,
around. The following is an extract: |
"The stork deposited Fjaestad in
Stockholm just three days before
Christmas, 1868, and he has been a
winter baby ever since. As school
boy he fretted even more than the
average Swedish yOungster to be out
of doors. Study hours over, he was
always the first to strap on his skis
| and race the butcher boys Sledge to
! the nearest mill pond. The Swedes
| say that ne was born with pair of
Lagergren skates on his feet-the La
/ gergren claims to be the fastest skates
in the world. At fourteen he could
outdistance any of his schOOlmates on
the ice, draw astonished crowds to
see him engrave dragons and viking
ships on the. crust, dance Swedish
jigs and perform all those marvellous
leaps and evolutiOns in which the
J Swedes are such wizards on the ice.
! He was also expert at tacking into the
wind on skates with huge sail, At
the age when other youths were at
college he was winning blue ribbons
and silver cups as the champion of
Sweden. The story of Fjaestad's
fame as an artist is OF course the old
i story of the prophet and his own coun-
try. The Swedes, who always have
plenty of snow in winter, were slow
to realize that Fjaestad, the athlete,
could also be great as an artist. 1t
7, was the Germans who first recOg-
mixed his power; Il was the Germans
who first imported to America repro
ductions of Fjaestad's winter scenes,
And now Rome itself has paid tribute
to his genius, where at the recent in
transitional exhibit Fjaestad's inter
probation of the Northern winter made
a profound impression
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I In Sweden, and especially in the
larger cities like Stockholm, women
wear long hatpins the same as in the
United States. These have caused
much annoyance In overcrowded
street cars. In order to prevent this
conductors have been selling so called
rubber tips for the small sum of
ore each and it is common TO see
gentleman hand a woman rubber tip
to place on her hatpin, or, indeed, he
may be polite enough to put it on the
pin himself, thus preventing himself
and others from being unnecessarily
scratched: The rubber tips are now
generally worn on hatpins, but men
in general entertain fond hopes that
women will soon find it convenient. to
abandon the wearing of the rather
long and fierce looking hatpin.
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The great Northern games, occur
ring every fourth year like the Inter
national Olympic contests commenced
in Stockhold Feb. T. The chief com
petitions are skating, ski running, field
shooting. fencing, trotting and swim
ming. The stadium, which has been
turned into beautiful ice palace,
where the skating tournaments are
taking place, was thrown open on the
evening of Feb. with a brilliant ice
carnival under the patronage OF the
crown princess. All the members OF
the royal family were present.
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In the death of DR.. de Laval, the in
ventor of the world famous cream
separator, Sweden has lost one of it's
most leading inventors. De Laval
had amassed a great fortune and was
q very liberal hearted person, who
during has business career gave away
thousands of crowns to charitable or
ganizatiOnS.
Johanna Maria Lindahl, who recent
~ celebrated her 105th birthday, is at
present Eweden's oldest woman. She
is a Snlolander by birth and was born
in Ryd. kafnar county, Jan. 25, 1903.
Until she attained an age of 100 years
she was able to care for herself, but
during the last five years she has been
in i'll health and is now confined to
her bed.
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Norwegian young men and women
no longer will be lured from trains
between Ellis Island and Chicago by
white Slavers, labor runners" and
agents for fake land schemes, when
q hotel with representatives to meet
strangers has been established In Chi