Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-07-30
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been engaged to speak before the con-
vention Of the National Education as
ISOLATION In st. Paul The officials of
the association objected to the plac.
ing Of her title before her name In the
official convention program. A rule
was cited by the officials, prohibiting
the use Of any titles, such as LID,
Ph.D., professor or doctor, before or
after any names in the program, but
Baroness Posse insisted that the title
was part of her name. Il have le-
gal right to the title." she told Secre-
tary Durand w. Springer. The baron
ess won the controversy. and so she
was the only person mentioned In the
program with a title to her name.
sex hygiene should be taught to ev'
cry school child" said Baroness Posse,
who is the head Of the department Of
physical education Of the N. e. A.
Competent persons should do the
teaching. II should be treated serious
ly and sanely. Other than that l
would not limit the teaching of II. The
child must know these things and
know them correctly. We must get
over our old-fashioned ideas and be.
come sensible about such things"
Baroness Posse, speaking In conclu-
sion. said that the subject properly be-
longs to the department OF physical
education, and that the way to bring
good results is to emphasize not only
the moral aspect but to show the chill
dren that by right living they can be
big and strong physically, and that
wrong living Injuries health"
A very remarkable operation has
been performed by DIR. Akerblom OF
Falun A fiddler known In that part
of the country as Blind Emil" had
been completely blind all his life, and
he is thirty years old. His blindness
was due to a cataract. which Doctor
Akerblom succeeded in removing. This
caused complete revolution In the
mans life. Emil faced an entirely
new world. The only thing that he
recognized was a tree, for that APP
peared like the notion that he had
formed about 1t by means of the sense
of touch Other objects, as we'll as
the people. we're at first riddles to
him. He soon learned to know OBJ
jects by means Of his new sense. but
It will take a long time to Judge dis
tances. everything looking like a fiat
surface to him. His eyes are very
sensitive. so that he must be careful
to avoid straining them.
Emil Anderson. forester at Flens,
is preparing "a park for raising blue
foxes as a business proposition. The
ground Is carefully paved under the
sod, and the place Is fenced In with
strong wire netting.
A new bank is to be started in
Karlstad. 1t Is proposed to call II
varmlands Folkbank, but the directors
of Varmlands Enskilda bank have pro-
tested against this name as an in
fringement
he oOCtdi DCIlONIdNc dIG HldhluA
preparations for the fall campaign.
and In some districts they have NOM
mated candidates for members of the
rigsdag.
About one hundred and fifty mem
bers of the Swedish rigsdag visited
Christiania, Norway, the other day.
They were Socialists and Liberals, and
the Conservatives did not fail to criti-
CHE them for leaving the rigsdag in
the face OF a large amount OF unfin-
ished business Of very important
nature.
Epitaphs in the Vemdalen cemetery
show that - brothers and sisters were
buried there during the yearsy1Ss3 and
1884. Their ages were from one to
fourteen years.
The Nordstjernan Steamship COM
pany has applied for loan OF almost
$4,000 900 from the fund which the
government keeps for encouraging the
shipping industry. The company pro-
poses to build two new motor vessels.
A new bond OF union connects Swe-
den and Denmark. Electric energy Is
to be transmitted from the power sta
lions on the Lagan river. Sweden. to
Denmark. aud the first one OF a num-
Der Of cables has been laid.