Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1915-01-29

den, In 1862. re was thirty years of
age when he came to this country in
company with his brother Andreas,
who had been sent by the home gov
eminent as missionary to the infant
colony on the Delaware called New
Sweden. Some twelve years later,
upon the recall of Andreas, another |
brother, Pastor Samuel Hesselius,
came to take charge of the church, |
now known as Old Swedes church.
| at Christiania (Wilmington), which
| today marks the site Of the first col |
ony in America. Records exist stat !
ing that Gustavus Hesselius painted
an altar piece of the Last Supper"
| for church in Maryland. This was
discovered only last year. Gustavus |
Hesselius died in Philadelphia in 1855.
In his will he bequeathed my cham |
| Der organ to my son, John" The por
trait by John Hesselius of his wife,
with two children, is now in private
ownership in Maryland, as are also
many other family portraits by Hes
selius, father or son. Mrs. Hesselius
was an accomplished Maryland dame,
some of whose rhymes were publish
ed in the Century Magazine more than
a hundred years after they were COM
posed
!. ). =
An Associated Press dispatch states
that, referring to dispatch at the
opening of the new session of the
riksdag to the economic suffering in
Sweden owing to the war, King Gus
tav said the fact that the principles
of international law no longer were
observed by the belligerents contribut
ed powerfully to the present situation.
He added that careful regard for the
) neutrality of Sweden and for her
right to decide her destiny necessar-
lily involved personal sacrifices and
required that her military forces
should be increasingly maintained
| Speaking of the convention entered
into with Norway and Denmark as a
result of the war, and of the meeting
of the three kings at Malmo, King
Gustav expressed the hope that the
good relations between the three
countries would be further cemented
J in order that the position Of Sweden
} might be strengthened although
? proceeded his majesty, "our neutral
, ity, as l warmly hope, may be pre-
served, efforts will be required to pro-
Z tect the country and to mitigate for
: the humbled citizens the economic
consequences of the war"
4 :. !:
The government has just issued a
decree strictly forbidding the transit
4 or forwarding to belligerent powers
of all kinds of war materials, as well
as raw materials essential for their
manufacture. It is emphasized that
In no case whatsoever may Swedish
s ports and communication serve tho
0 military interest of the belligerent
powers.
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Hannah Astrup Larsen, in recent
article on Social Reform Legislation
. in Norway" says: One duty now be
q fore our people is the protection OF
a the unmarried mothers. Although the
percentage of children born out OF
o wedlock is not high in Norway com
pared with other countries, theil
number is certainly sufficient to war
II rant special legislation. The dealt
rate among these children is appall
% ing, amounting sometimes to as much
as three times the rate among chill
dren born in normal conditions. I'm
der the old Norwegian law illegiti
mate children had the same RICH
of inheritance as those born in wed
ID lock, but by more recent Legislation
the father is not legally father a
~ ALL He is required to pay the mothe
- small sum, but only on her demand
and the burden of proof rests on her
She often shrinks from making
=. claim; she is perhaps ashamed or sh
>. is afraid of offending the man, AM
X so losing a possible chance of MAJ
rage Sometimes she suffers mucl
- privation before she receives aid, o
- she may not receive it at all. Il
n order to remedy this evil we hav
IS brought in a government proposition
We which, in the first place, raises tn
III amount of the contribution to be PAL
n by the father, and, in the secon
" place, provides for it's disbursement
of by the municipality in cases wher
w the father cannot be made to pay
~ The most revolutionary provision {
:, the bill, however, is that which re
= quires the question of fatherhood-i
~ not voluntarily admitted-to be e
}" tablished by the courts. Anonymou
~ parenthood must cease, and the fail
up er must assume his share of the d.
wv ties now borne only by the mothe
an Under the present law, the child Dor
of out of wedlock inherits from tn
no mother only and bears her name. B
To the new bill, which will probably 500
- become law, the child will have tn
right to bear it's fathers name ais