Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-05-28

be concluded, and IN September Of
last year the Swedish and Norwegian
foreign ministers met at Gothenburg
to discuss the possibility Of arriving
at a friendly agreement without fur
:ther recourse to arbitration. As re-
suit Of these "pourparlers" direct ne
gotiations were started between the
two governments with the proviso
that recourse should be had to arbf-
tration II the negotiations failed.
The convention just signed makes It !.
likely that a satisfactory treaty will .
be arranged and further arbitrations
avoided. The press Of all parties in
both countries expresses satisfaction
and hopes that the new step may
lead to friendly cooperation between
Swedes and Norwegians in other
spheres of mutual interest.
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Agnes Hansen, the Norwegian opera
singer, has been making great sue .
cess recently in German cities as
"Brunhilde" in Wagner's ode Walky-
RE-" Miss Hansen has also appeared
in a number of concerts in Berlin,
Stuttgart and Hamburg and at all
these places she scored much ap-
plause and received many compli-
ments from musical critics.
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The May 18th celebrations through
out Norway were well attended this
year and especially so in Christian1a,
where thousands of festiye-clad peo-
pie turned out to enjoy the day and
listen to patriotic songs and speech
es The day was also observed by
a large number of Norwegian-Ameri-
can societies in many cities in the
| United States.
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Through the kindness Of Axel
Bugge the University of Christiania
has lately come into a number of
| collections from Sophus Bugge's Ii
brary. There are also number of
| scientific treatises and manuscripts
that may now be found in the Bugge
collection at the university.
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Swedish Vega medal He holds at
present as many medals of honor as
any living Scandinavian.
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| Queen Alexandria of Denmark and
her sister, Empress Marie, have been
added to the ranks of the Interna-
tional Sunshine society and they have
adopted beautiful plan for raising
money for the blind babies of Den.
mark. Aided by the Danish postmas-
ter general they have had made in
the royal mint copper COMA lucky
| penny-which will be sold to every
| new born child which has the gift OF
| sight. The parents are to pay what
ever sums they may see fit for the
lucky coin, which is only worth
| halfpenny. On one side it has the
head of Queen Alexandria. The
other side is decorated with a sheaf
| of wheat and the coreopsis, the in
| ternational sunshine flower, and bears
| the word "1uck," above which is
large star, signifying "a child born"
In purchasing the coin the child see
ing the light for the first time pre-
sents tribute to the child who will
| never see, the money paid for the
lucky penny going to the support of
the blind children. Queen Alexan-
| drina sent one of the very finest
coins from the mint to Mrs. Cynthia
Westover Alden, the president general
of the International Sunshine society,
the woman who has brought to the
| attention of the world that the blind
babies were being neglected. The
queen also sent her photograph.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the
president of the United States, has
been asked to consider a like plan
for the blind babies of the United
States.
Copenhagen is an example of the
good results of getting women to take
part in municipal government. It is
owing to women that the city has its
present intense civic life. Formerly
municipal affairs were treated with in
difference by most citizens. In 1875
| and 1895 only about 81 per cent of
| the voters took the trouble to vote.
| When women became active in civic
| affairs this Indifference disappeared
| and at the election last March 80 per
cent of the population of both sexes
| voted. OF women voters on the list
1913 per cent voted. This proportion
lis considerably higher than the pro-
| portion of men. A pamphlet has ap-
| peared at Copenhagen entitled ''The
Beneficient Results of Female Par
ticipation in Municipal Affairs" It
shows the influence which women
have had on civic affairs Of many.
! Scandinavian towns. It is declared
that in towns where women are act
i've in municipal affairs the proper
ton of money spent on schools, hous-
ing reform, children's gardens and
other useful purposes increases more
rapidly than in towns where men
alone do the governing. Where
women have no influence the proper
ton of nonproductive expenditure.
such as expenditure of salaries and