Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-04-16
NORWAY.

Miss Anne Mourud has been running
housekeeping school at Lu Lilleham-
mer for ten years past. During that
time about five hundred women have
been made splendid housewives by
means of this school. The reputation
of the school has been on the increase
all the time, and now 1t ranks among
the very best of its kind in the whole
kingdom. A popularity of the school
is that It has students from all parts
OF the country, from Kristiansand to
T4omso. This winter the school has
girl who came from America to
take course in cooking and house
keeping. This American girl serves
as a great advertisement for the
school, SO ably and economically has
the school been managed that 1t has
not been necessary to ask for any
bonus or other kind Of outside aid. A
selfsupporting school of this kind is
very rare. not to say unique.
Many leading men of Kristians Amt
County are in favor of improving
the jubilee celebration by dropping
the name of the Amt, "Kristians."
Just think of 1t, they say THE good
old Norwegian clans of Gudbrandsdal.
Totem, Hadeland and Valders have
to take their name from the Danish
king (Christian) because he used his
authority to misname the new amt
when it was separated from older ones
and organized as separate amt"
The new name suggested is "Oplan-
denes Amt" upland county,.
Lars Tjotta Of Stavanger. student
OF the history and culture of Jaderen,
has no use for modern fandangoes.
Before he died he left orders to have
his remains cremated in Christiania
and the ashes buried in an urn in
Jaderen. Now he is dead and bis
ashes rest in the soil of Jaderen, which
his heart chung to with touching ten
derness. This is the first burial Of
its kind since the Iron Age. Lars
Tjotta, therefore. revived custom
which died out a thousand years ago.
The national debt of Norway June
80, 1918, was 362,743,499 krones, Zone
krone Is about twenty-seyen cents).
This makes about forty dollars for
every inhabitant. In Sweden the ma
tional debt amounts to about twenty
nine dollars; in Denmark about thir-
ty-four dollars per inhabitant. The
main reason why Norway has larger
per capita debt Is due chiefly to the
fact that she has built long railways
through mountainous districts.
One-half of the farms OF Andens
Morkri and Jens Fuglestig. Skjolden.
we're destroyed by a landslide, and
what remains win not be sufficient to
support the families. The houses on
one OF the farms are in dangerous
position, and must be removed. The
people OF the community are raising
money for the sufferers.
A number of women In Hamar and
the surrounding country recently held
a meeting in the interest of the de-
lenses. The wife OF Amtmand Gram
presided at the meeting. which was
well attended They resolved to dis
continue the work of raising money
for the defenses. On the other hand
they agreed to start sewing circles to
prepare materials for hospital requis-
ftes. A military hospital is to be
established In Hedemarken, and as
soon as this is opened the materials
will come handy
The society for the prevention OF
emigration has prepared list Of
farms for sale all over the country.
Twenty thousand copies Of It will be
printed, and pains will be taken to
place It in the hands Of Norwegian
Americans who are to make visit
to Norway to celebrate the centennial
jubilee.
Norway seems to have exported
canned goods the value Of which was
about six million dollars In 1913. but
the exact figures are not Eaown.