The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-14
cENTEryaRY OF TREATY WHICH GAVE NORWAY TO SWEDEN

One hundred years ago to-day the representatives of England. Sweden ana Denmark concluded at Kiel treaty by which Denmark was forced to cede Norway to Sweden. and by which Sweden in return. gave up Pomerania to Denmark. England all the conquests made in the East and West Indies-al1 territory. in short, that had been occupied by British troops. excepting Heligolsnd. The treaty was not wholly satisfactory to either the Danes. the Norwegians nor the SvTedes- Pomerania was too distant to form a suitable appendage to the Danish territory. and was ex- changed for a sum of money and a small district adjoining HoIsteiE. Pos merania thus came into the posses sion of Prussias as one of the .iu1ts of the peace pact The Norwegians, while glad to be freed from the Dan fsh yoke. were at first inclined to re- sssf the annexation Of their country by Sweden On the 17th of May fol- lowing they declared their in 1cpen- dence. but their means of resistance were small. and the Swedes. while 6..s- patching troops to Norway, offered liberal terms Charles Frederic, Duke of Holstein, was elected king of Nor. 1874. and in the following month Charles XIII. Of Sweden was pro claimed king by the national diet as sembled at Christiana.
 By the terms Of the union between Norway and Sweden. the latter ac- cepted the constitution promulgated by the former at the time of the dec laration of independence- This doc ument made Norway "a free. indepen- dent. indivisfble kingdom,'' united with Sweden under the same king. This dynastic tie was cut in 1905, wl.en Norway elected a king of its own.
 Norwegians are planning a great celebration for May IT next, the cen tenary of the declaration of indepen- dence and the promulgation of the constitution at Eidsvo1d- One of the proposed features of the observarsce Is the legal adoption of a new lan- guage as the official tongue of Nor wegians. sLandsmaal,'' a language originated about three-score years ago +DL AaSeas NOTWGS1an SchO lar, is the tongue to be adopted It em- braces much that is ancient in the tongues of the Northmen, but mod erenized and adopted to modern uses
 In his new language. says a writer In Popular Mechanics, Aasen er1bod- jed much Of the old Morse and an cient Sagas, as well as the idioms and dialects of the remoter regions of the Kingdom, where the peasantry have cIung through four centuries of Dan fsh domination to the tongue spoken by their forbears in the days If the Vikings Employing these and other materials and adapting them to mod ern requirements, Aasen succeeded in evolving so meIodious and poetic a language that the vast majority Of his countrymen. commencing witt, the r,1- raI population have. accepted it for their songs, for their plays, for their sermons and for their vernaculstr Landsmaal is phonetic, and is not SC radically different from the printed Danish language tbat an educated Eatne cannot make it : out Some thing of the sort has been accomplish ed in Finland. save that now an ed ucated Ffnlander must learn three languages. Finnish. Swedish and Ras- sian. in order to keep abreast of the times in his own land" 5,