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Evening star., 1915-03-21

WAR CAUSES HARD
VIEW OF BERGEN. NORWAY.

TO sing in Miss du Belief offered. but.
right off, the gir1 refused Indignantly.
How could l dream of accepting such
:, thing she exclaimed In agitation,
then bumped her toe and said Ouch
oh, my feet pinch me so she con
fcsscd. u suffer terribly. il you could
find a pair of boots 70 A. me. cheap.
Id buy them Of YOU
Naomi tried her on pair of boots,
scarcely scuffed. Then, ali embarrassed.
the girl started off, without a word
concerning reimbursement But, from
the doorway, she came back. 'As to
that gown" she said. couldn't l pay
= few dollars for ONE"
No" said Naomi what would J do
with the dollars? Sell them to some
proud american girl for - cents
TX" the rich south in Scripture, the
giri went off psnsivc Later. she wrote
the Clothes Fairy - have ~ last de-
"idcd " accept your Kind offer. thong h
I'd feel much more confortabl" to
pay in some way. Should il become
known. I'd be ruined forefer | feel
worried. I can wear tan. cream,
black or light blue. ann 4ll. and take a
broad shoulder. Shoulh prefer high
necks. but do not object to elbow
sleeves. and If the neck is low, ! can
On arriving. her first words were.
is II blue crearH?"
II was black, and III that dreSs: she
met the Australian doctor whom she
married. retiring, happily. from opera
before she had got In.
All OF " Inch is past
american women in Paris have no
clothes 10 give" says Naomi. They are
wearing their old duds. How could
they do otherwise? They would appear
singular American good taste forbids
them to Haunt new clothes before the
nptiveS
All over Paris French women of for
tune and fashion going about
shabby. in little deIni-tailored
.trotteuse." How dress up. when their
men are muddy and unsnaven. at the
front? There no social functions,
but good works.
'Sha bbiness is elegance. says Naomi.
We'll. lots Of our rich Americans sue
ceed. When ! saw Mrs. x "f Phtla
de1pha going in shaved rat ImIta
ton sealskin. rubbed and draggled. md
her beautiful daughter in her last WIN
ter's red Canada lynx stole that really
needed hair cut aud shampoo, ] said
to myself: Now, there is stuff tim,
ought to be on my girl students"
She heaved a sigh.
shoddy," said the planters child
such trash. however elegant, mamma
bands of sables. which cost $3.50. She
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0Oo, 900 to Sac, 100000. This adverse bal
ance is made up by the income received
from the Danish merchant marine.
This is another reason for the solicit
tude of Denmark over the interference
with neutral commerce by the bellg-
erents. If the activities of her mer-
chant marine are restricted the nation
al income suffers
Corn, which comes from Argentina,
is the heaviest agricultural import, but
rye and wheat as well as wheat -four
are also imported.
The principal exports are bacon. live
cattle, fresh meats, dairy products and
eggs. Enormous quantities of all these
commodities are shipped across the
North sea to England This traffic,
therefore, the British admiralty Will
seek to protect rather than interfere
with.
In the year before the war began the
exports of bacon amounted to a frac-
tion under 279,o00.000 pounds, valued
at si3, $50, 900. One-half the total bacon
imports into Great Britain are from
Denmark.
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ucts have had world market. but ii is
presumed that the belligerents are now
taking all they can get, and that the
trade with the rest of the world may
fall off temporarily.
The United States has something more
than sympathetic bond with the Scan
dinavian countries in the trouble which
the belligerents are making for neutral
commerce. 1t has close trade rela- =
tioa- with Norway, Sweden and Den
mark.
The various Scandinavian steamship
lines running to and from the ports of
the United States have done much to
encourage this traffic. The United
States is almost as much interested il
the merchant fleets of Denmark. Swe-
den and Norway as if they were under
it's own flag. Before the world war
broke out there had been notable in
crease in the ships on the different
routes, and some new lines had been
esta blished. These were to be followed
by other lines.
During the fiveycar period imports
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Norway has important agricultural
industries. including dairying but she
is compelled to import the various
cereals. including flour. The average
value of the field crops is about $780,
100000. but of this. hay furnishes SO
per cent. Hay is exported to Great
Britain. and in some years there are
also exports of potatoes.
Norway imports. for her own use.
some meats. but these are hardly more
than nominal. Her chief agricultural
imports are the flour and other food
stuffs. Fish products in the matter OF
food supplies are of the most i'm
portance. These exports. in ordinary
years. amount to s44.000.o0o to s45.o08.-
ooo. Canned fish form the bulk of them
Heretofore the Norwegian fish prod
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CASTLE OF THE KING AT CHRIsTIANIA

17,346.000 pounds, as against imports of
5,777,000 pounds.
Beef and mutton exports amounted to
10,639,000 pounds, as against imports of
4.453,0O0 pounds. Sweden also has
well developed dairying industry, and
butter is an important export com
modify.
In the present situation both Eng
land and Germany are interested in
getting all the food supplies they can
from Sweden. This includes fishery
products
The main items in Sweden's export
trade are lumber, chiefly in the form
of pulp wood and wood pulp. and iron
ore. The pulp wood industry has an
annual output valued at 100000. 900.
substantially all of which is export
product. Germany is large buyer of
this article for her own industries.
The exports of iron ore amount to
about 100000 tons. and of pig iron
100000 tons. 1t is not known that
either Germany or England have had
their supplies of Swedish ore inter-
fered with.
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ing elegant calls Shall she give these
to the typewriters"
She tried it recently. The girl had
just found = Oh.
Il imagined she would keep II Tor
extra occasion, says Naomi. Such a
good girl, s;h. came TO me n IT, after
office hours. X hat said. YOU poor
thing. Did >on "ctuaily rush home
and DIRE ss up, Just to come here. oh.
no. she renlIed. innocent}". am
straight from the Office. Think, a
mauye silk with White crepe front, ]
asked her: What do they think of
you in that dress at the Office Why
she replied, its real nice. How could
they think otherwise"
She mourns the departed girl stu
dents.
They are not doing we'll over in
AIasrica.' she says. Il have roluminous
mails. Singer painters. illustrators.
employment Poor things. they went
back unprepared."
asked how.
''Cnprepared in studies and in looks,
said the Clothes Fairy. IF student
girl goes back shabby. she looks like
a failure
Snc IOld OF nara WORKERS. WHO mao
finished with brilliant promise and
honorable scars. Paris lessons had
consumed all their money They lack
ed gowns. coats. hats. shoes-eVery-
thing.
Il used to feel that l must lit them
out" she says. ito make good I'm
preston on arriving home. Once. J had
promised such nice girl singer and
hadn't half the things she needed.
was in the dumps and she was in my
bedroom. The bell rang and in walked
Miss Curtis of Boston. with maid.
coachman and lot of boxes. When |
saw the things [ was thunderstruck-
they We're just what we needed! Why.
how could you know" I exclaimed
My aunt and I talked about it coming
up on the train from Rome she an
swered The girl. who had been look
ing through the keyhole, knocked and
whispered to me: They will fit; see
it. Introduce me / am not afraid to
meet a lady like that and I want to
thank her She burst into tears when
presented. You have saved me from
going home shabby. were her last
words l learned, later, that she had
a choice of three engagements two
weeks after she struck New York"
Miss Glayds Vanderbilt walked In
one summer afternoon.
IT did not know who she was. A
maid followed, with lot of things
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q 0Ews dispatches these days
IMu make frequent mention of the
uN meetings of the Kings of the
q " different Scandinavian coun-
tries. Three monarchs meet in confer
ence-the Kings OF Denmark. Sweden
and Norway. respectively.
The possibility of a single nation
after the world war Is discussed in
connection with these conferences.
Hints are given Of plans for maintain
ing the Scandinavian identity to avoid
the danger of ABSORPTION by the bellig-
erents. This means both Germany and
Russia.
This aspect of the subject may be
dismissed for the present. The chief
concern of the three kings In their
conferences is to preserve the neu-
trality of their countries. At the same
lime they have grave concern over
maintaining the rights of their neutral
commerce Neither set of belligerents
shows any regard for these rights
whore exigencies arise.
,:cc-raphIcaIly Norway, Sweden and
lie mara are 50 situated that a war
such as the present one give them
certain Legitimate advantages as
ncutraIs Vt the same time, it exposes
them to constant danger from the as-
,rcssions of the belliSerents.
The trade relations of the Scandina-
,in countries arc to be considered in
connection with their maritime power
MI of them are maritime nations. Their
commerce is overseas well as of the
Baltic and the North sea. Their flags
arc known in every port. Their COM
rel hau mt is a
factor in world commerce
Copenhagen. Christiana, Bergen,
>,tsvenEcr. Gotcuburg and Stockholm
are ports known to all the world
Countries with merchant fleets such
as these Scandinavian nations possess
are therefore intensely interested ill
maintaining the fullest rights of neu-
trails at sea and of securing the least
possible interference with their ship
ping
German mines and arbitrary British
searchers and prize courts are equally
obnoxious to their national interests
New definitions of contra band have
the most vital meaning to them.
Some diversion of the ordinary trade
currents is one of the results of the
war of which they have no ground for
complaint. Hamburg. for example.
formerly was a distributing port for
Gonsidera BILE Scandinavian commerce
The war disturbs this maritime situa-
rion. but as far as overseas commerce
goes 1t can be handled dlrectlS from
the Scandinavian ports
The outstanding fact about the Scan
dinavian countries is that they are I'M
portant sources of food supply, ana
they are advantageously situated for
supplying several of the belliserents.
Fisheries products and meats are
among their principal exports They
also have Il surplus of some farm prod
uctS. vet. taken sa whole. notWith-
standing that they have large agricul-
rural areas. they do not raise sufficient
crops to feed their own population.
Therefore. as importers OF grain ana
some other foodstuffs, they are vitality
interested in the freeSt exercise of the
rights of neutral countries. They are
equally exercised over the arbitrary
assumption of any of the belligerents
in setting up its own rules as to the
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used to have her euuip4re Poor Del
ph1ne: she has nothing now. She was
pessihs GU "!'' rene" IeSSoh9. Hot
~ - e,,. nId r..oo,as I,,,d no. ,1,o,,a-
Rut now, she is starving Ono is MIA in
American widow, who subjects three fats.
lurnisheu. but h"nodN pays hef' an"
s' E;dapti, nsa,a.i s,.o,.sos
wouId not chner them
''I1xpatriates" | said mecha nicaIl,
Poor Old expatriates! exclaimed
.Sdoi'' .ie irl.el so'ielA "ilei, " sen"
.rha, h.,rn ,o AToo-io,, ;, 1,,o ~ W
Some are artists who had the sense IA
be commercial artists. ThcH have made
haHusolhe wages tor years. Now tle
,,ss.. nr s,.n,,.r,,,,,a,. .,,i,,' 80,
office clerks s;,lesnornen md n,ant,c-
u;liIlS all carniu. good money in norm 4
times because Of thei- nerfect English
Their places will he keut far thcp, after
the war If they @, home they lose
them
Our embassy 7 told b,,r will uot give
them r,assports to stay It discourages
expatriates
..Oh. passnorts, she said "au tI,e
women who rush across to nurse the
wounded have n.ssn,rts a.,Iore Toll
them NOT to come tn nursa for a sal
ary''
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vian League Champions Neutral Commerce

from the United States into Norway
doubled. while the exports from Nor,
way to the United States increased hve
fold. Norwegian exports TO the United
States include lumber products, sar-
dimes and other FISH products. and
variety OF miscellaneous articles
Imports from the United States com
sist OF wheat and wheat Hour. mineral
oils. cottonseed oil. cottonseed cake
for livestock. farm machinery and va
rious iron and steel products.
In the trade between the United
States and Sweden -four and mineral
port commodities. although there is
market for numerous other manufae.
tured commodities. OF the Swedish e1.
ports to the United States, wood pulp Is
by far the most important commodity:
hut the fishery products are also Of
some consequence. Before the OUT
break of the war Sweden had increased
her shipping facilities to and from
American ports
Since the bulk OF Danish exports A..
agricultural products. II might be az.
sumed that the Danish market In the
United states is not n largo one. New
ertheiess there are number of i'm.
portant commodities. These include
hides and skins. Some wool from Tee
md is exported through Copenhagen
The leading imports into Denmark
from the United states are oottonseed
cakes and cottonseed oil. mineral oils,
flour and toba When the ArEen-
tine corn crop IL limited Denmark
draws on corn from the United States.
Agricultural machinery and various
manufactured commodities also have q
passa BILE market
The imports of American goods ara
larger than would appear from the Of
flcial statistics. since heavy purchases
heretofore have been made through
Hamburg. London and other ports
\ few weeks after hostilities began
the British government. in its assump-
tion that all neutral commerce must he
subject to its necessities as a beliiger-
ent, began TO harass Scandinavian COM
merce. Not only the right of search
was exercised to the utmost, but the
right to assume the ultimate destina
tion of all cargoes consigned to Scan
dinavian ports was assumed.
Copper especially was made the OIL
ject of British supervision.
Notwithstanding that Scandinavia II
countries adopted rigid regulations for.
bidding re-eXportation of so-called
contraband. England held up Scandi /
navian vessels and took some of them
into port to be passed on by British
prize courts.
The Scandinavian countries have pro
tested as energetically against these
British measures as they have against
the laying of mines by the Germans.
They are interested primarily in assur
ing food supply for their own popula-
tion. for. as l have shown. while they
have a surplus of some agriculture,
products. nevertheless, taken as a
whole, they do not produce cereals
enough for the consumption of their
own people. They also need foodstuffs
for their live stock.
1t is not convenient for them to have
corn from Argentina and flour from
he nit ed tat cl raj b.sr ii
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port these foodstuffs.
Denmark occupies an excellent po-
sition for providing both England and
Germany with any surplus foodstuffs
she may have. About four -f1fths of her
exports are agricultural products.
The leading farm crops are rye. bar
ley, oats. mixed grains and potatoes
and other yegetab bles. The live stock
industry is most important one. but
the domestic production of feed for
livestock Is not sufficient and consid-
cradle quantities of animal foodstuffs
are imported
Denmark's foreign trade ranges from
$s5o.00O.oo0 to S375.oo0.oo0. the imports
usually exceeding the exports by $780,
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Fresh meats were exported in excess
of 33.00O.000 pounds, valued at nearly
s4.000,000. and a large part of this also
was taken by England. More than 153.-
900 head of cattle. valued at nearly
s13,000,000. were exported, partly to
England.
Danish dairy and kindred products
have a world reputation. Danish but
ter put up in tins has an extensive
market throughout the tropics, but
there is also large market in Eng
land. The value of the butter export
ed ranges from s50,000,0o0 upward. In
1918 the value was in excess of S53,
600, 900 and the quantity was about 200,
100000 pounds.
Eggs are also an export product. the
value ranging in the neighborhood of
S10,0G0,0 900 annually.
Denmark's important relation to the
belligerents in their struggle for food
may be summarized in the statement
that the exports of provisions, includ-
ing dairy products. eggs and fish,
ranges from s116.000,000 to $123,000.0 900.
Sweden has foreign trade which in
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Supply for the CmnesArut Imports for Their Own FeopeNatMe
Expot-Merhan World
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therefore compelled to bring large
quantities from other countries
Russia and Germany between them
supplied about three -fourths of the
wheat in almost equal proportion. Den
mark contributed 10 per cent. British
India per cent and the United States
per cent.
Wheat in the form of Hour also is
imported. Considerab bic corn is i'm
ported from Argentina. In peace times
Germany supplies the bulk of the rye
and about one-half the oats.
While her crops not sufficient for
the support of her population. Sweden
has a surplus of meat products and
livestock for slaughter
Exports of pork exceed the imports
by approximately 100000 pounds, the
total exports in 1913 having been
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lAi~iS' aiel' y '''''
JASfi'-s+a t'Lf- Amer lea ~ " oi'i
w 1S Q" N isFis' 'odas iooh
SnahhF' arassIsh' was a.
most gong 10 s@s dlstepot
PIE ! heA are Yea ine 'ilei' o'' oude
u IS the style.
Inc speah'f Vas the foFemost or 'he
''olonial Dt'hcs OF Virginia IN fhtls'
Aiss Naomi dn beli"t- Her iather'
wealthy New orleans planter. and her
,,o,be, Mrs Paul Pecouet du Ballet
- - ,. .. 1-,r-,;r; a,,,.a -
"
farls after the secession. Naomi stoon
before the portrait Of her mother. in
second .r.gulre court dress Family.
s,1,, -, >,,,t
= "
proud as ,v"f@-s" she UNDERSTANDS poor.
PROUD student giris once, IL ce1ne out
tr conversation that She was "torn at
,t,,,i,.,, ..,,,.t,,, ,lt t-r.,,,., , 4.
= :"
"onin!eHtfd ''h ihiptfhttcht. .No' fresi !
dert Madison% old estate" corrected
Naomi "DN yg1II mamma was there
~, =, x,,.,,,as,a ~ in,r,r,f,,,
:
i''' Eisi'hs i'r 'a'hef' vas ->aoiili :
soi1eiohfng answer.
-
Sn ,,.,.,,,,, , ~
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Sweden exports some farm products
but she imports more. Her leading
agricultural crops are barley. beans
and other vegetab including pota
toes, oats, feed root crops. rye and
sugar beets. Her wheat production III
1913 was 6,I00,0O0 bushels, and she was
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Paris is fun of broke Americans
said Naomi.
Isn't she bewldering'
They are married women ana Old
Girls. she told me. "and widows of
dead, titled Frenchmen. who are neither
French nor American No one heard Of
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Wartime Paris is no place for girl
Students.
The academies arc closed. the voice
trainers have shut their doors: the mise
en-scene coaches await better DAYS
And no girl needs party gown 10
produce herself al a soiree.
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changed IA" velvet again aud again.
and renewed pieces of the sable.
cordine 10 need. 1t lasted eight Years.
| wore set of crmines SIX veare.
Thau she told how she went, the
other day. TO thu. Bon Marche with "a
sweet American girl to buy lace
shawl, because ] understand them.
Wandering through the alsles, en-
route. the girl bought any quantity of
,rihes.
Whenever she saw a jimcrack she
fell for it. and when Naomi told her:
You will never use them she replied
They are so pretty, and so cheap, and
bought some more. Now, listen.
When we got to the lace they show
ell us some shawls that We're simply
beautiful. and, think, lace shawls like
that for $50, But the girl found it too
dear. who had just frittered away $45
on iincracks. This shawl I said,
will last a lifetime" But. no, she
didn't want to put so much as that in
ono thing.
Now, tins smart trasiinesS. reflects
Naomi. has been u blessing to her girl
students.
'tE'ornerly. materials were rich
that things lasted and styles changed
little. ! remember papa taking us to
the store for coats The salesgirls be-
gan. they did then. by showing all
kinds of things that mamma did not
like. till papa said: Let me take the
child When the salesW omen began
the same with him: What do you
want to pay" he simply sent for the
proprietor, and when he came, papa
pointed to me- saying: For that child
pingat looked me over. and told them
to fetch so-and-so. 1t kind of
gray broadcioth, trimmed with chin
clIilla and 1t lasted me till I outgreW
II. and the chinchlla WAS put on a
Jacket.
In those days. she says people had
mansions. cquipages. servants-and
clothes chests Mothers handed down
things to their daughters, Nowadays
that coat would be gray squirrel and
shoddy, and be given away next sea-
son.
Modern eAtravagance is Il blessing.
says the Clothes Fairy. w omen who
have money want to buy new things
each season Nothing lasts. Novelty,
novelty. And, so. Womens hearts are
kinder. They give me last years things
for my girl students"
She sighed.
They did, she corrected. They'll
do il again, after this And. for
the present" she reflected philosophical
lv, my girl students are not losing any
thing
Why" | asked
There none' she said: all have
gone home been sent home. The
embassy. the treasury agents and the
committees treated them beautifully.
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PARIS, March 10. 1915.
:: =: :;: s:
= most going 10 say disreput
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BY CHARLES M. PEPPER.

u 0EWs dispatches these days
IMI make frequent mention of the
uV meetings of the Kings of the
q " different Scandinavian coun-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-14

turned over to the postoffce officials
to be delivered to the addresses, II pos
sible.
It was mostly outgoing mail which
was found One of the undelivered
letters was addressed to Miss Marie
E. Griswold. 1t was mailed from
Kingsville, Pa, 1890.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-14
R. S. FIELD
100 West Main Street

Mt, Pleasant; Vida Martin, Center
Vile; and Mary Barnett Lone Tree.
Phi M u:-Helen Keith, Roma
Irons, and Lillian McGrew of Mt.
plea SAINT; Ruth Holiday, GrandvieW;
Francis Jamison of Oakville, VIENNA
Schleichter Of Kalona and Carrie
Wentworth Of Brighton.
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|OWANs. ARE ANGRY
At CAL|F0RN|ANS
MANY PROTESTS MADE AGAINST
BEING FROZEN OUT OF LIVE
STOCK EXHIBIT.

Des Moines, Oct. 12.-Protests
against the action of the Panama-Pa
cirjc exposition live stock exhibit
officials in quarantining Iowa live.
stock because of the fear of foot and
mouth disease are being received from
all sections of the state. DR.. James
I. Gibson, state veterinarian, and his
department are considering plans for
bringing back large shipments Of cat
tie which were intended for exhibit
purposes at the exhibition. He said
today that the attitude of the Cali.
fornia veterinarian in putting up the
bars against Iowa cattle was incom-
prehensible to him.
ct is a hardship on the Iowa exhibi-
tors to have to stand the expense of
returning their cattle without having
had an opportunity to display them at
the fair. It was not necessary for
the California officials to quarantine
Iowa as the disease not only has been
stamped out in this state but there is
none nearer than Kane county, Illinois.
s'There has not been an outbreak Of
the disease in Iowa in several months
and 1t was the hope of our depart
ment that Iowa live stock would not
be barred from participating in the
exposition The ruling
Of the California veterinarian sends
ali hopes glimmering.'