Show I SWEDEN CURSED D WITH FAMINE I THE THE ANNOUNCEMENT A that the I 1 University Dramatic club Is to re repeat repeat peat eat its is production of The Amazons for the benefit of the Swedish famine fund recalls the fearful suffering which h thousands of human beings being are under undergoing undergoing undergoing going This winter will wi pass Into his history history tory tor as the most terrible that certain districts district of Sweden have ever known Since the first dispatches on or the sub subject sub subject some time ago ago little has been said but enough is known to make the world Orld shudder It I is in the districts around the Gulf Gulf of that the greatest suffering Is being beng experienced The country or ordinarily ordinarily supports a population of near nearly nearly nearly ly In comfort Last Lat summer a a prolonged drouth all al but destroyed the crops Then at the end of the season of dryness great geat floods foods came and de destroyed destroyed destroyed the little that was left lef The people wore were left absolutely helpless They had nothing to eat except pine bark which they dried ground gound to a a powder mixed with wih stewed Iceland moss and made into a sort of bread bread The nourishment contained in such sj c mixture is of almost no consequence at all al but if i sufficed to sustain life for fora a period Then the supply of even this miserable diet ran out and an appeal for aid was sent out Other sections of Sweden responded r generously but they t te y were unable to supply all al of the necess necessary necessary sary food Two Swedish papers pub published published in the United States one in New NewYork NewYOrk NewYork York and the other In Chicago called caled for subscriptions They collected about from the Swedes in this coun country country country try and sent it to their starving starIng coun countrymen countrymen And still thousands of the unfortunates unfortunates nates rates are dying of starvation Thou Thousands Thousands Thousands sands more will wl die unless they are ft i until un tl they can raise more crops This prosperous country can catu hardly realize the conditions that exist in the famine districts We Ve hear now and then that thata a man man or woman yoman has starved to death in one of our cities cites and the news causes a shudder in thousands of homes homes But these are are isolated cases c ses In the desolation sections of Sweden want Is the rule plenty the exception The effort efort of the University Dramatic club to help in small a smal way at least to relieve re ve some of the distress Is I en entitled entitled titled to the highest commendation The Herald trusts that the young ac tors and actresses will wil be greeted by byan byan byan an immense audience and that the benefit may be successful in every way I |