Show I 1 MONO MONG the distinguished acm ere en of the world can be named A fru alno aino Ma il almberg imberg a well uell known finnish N writer and lee this woman noman is 18 now novi ill hi ing in london in the course of a recent ln terie mine Ma mailberg Halm Imberg berR who hc would mould have been elected a mem ber of the finnish par parliament lament had not the government of st petersburg sent her into exile stated that finland was vas ln in a N ern en bad wa x aa russia she bho said Is breaking up gra du bit by bit all that remains to us of the finnish constitution rhe most strenuous efforts aro are being mido made to our country recently it became obligatory for all school chil dren to learn the russian language prid nd now non the czars azars government re luses fuses to vote any money whatever vei tor for next ear car toward our national nit lonal aduca tion if no funds are granted the schools will nili have to be closed tint that will nill not matter however as ws we shall teach our ahll children d ren our ourselves S elves the senate e n now OA 1 in poin power er is corn com posed almost entirely of russian mem bars who of course do not depre sent finland some time ago a law iani was wab passed b a majority of three fourths of the members of the lindlag to abolish the sale of all alcoholic liquors the bill did not at first go through the senate but finally it was passed by b both houses then like all other measures it was nas forwarded to the czar for his indorsement endorsement Indor the czir czar refused his assent this is sig alg when nhen it Is remembered that russia ot of course sent the troops against us with the order should it be necess ari to destro destroy and all its inhabitants what could we ve doa we sent a deputation of three men to speak for us two miles aw ann a aa from the town they found the en camp ment of 0 russian soldiers balti nailing with their big guns pointed in the dl di of Helsing fors IN hen our rep asked the soldiers it if the were ere going to fire on the finnish people the men said no we ve will not tire fire should our officers command us to fire we ne will shoot them instead and nd so tho the great strike ended russia for once having cn ceded all that we ue asked at lint aliat timo time it wis was too busil busly engaged with japan to pay much attention to enfil imling ind home research society the finns are the most patriotic race in the world and are passionate 13 1 attached to their country countr the land of a thousand lakes in reality there are moie moe than one tion we me liao hao which I 1 I 1 think pecullar peculiar to the finnish people although there exists a pale imitation of it in SAN sweden eden it is the home research society soc lets and every ever finn Is a mamber be lie he rich or poor land own oin er or pea peasant ant on its archives Is kept a faithful record of eiery eier inch of out oui country and of ill all events that take place throughout the land the peas ant tor for instance will describe his house the furniture in it how much lind land he owns the nature ot of the soil the number and kind of domestic ant F q P f p arti ft V y TOI TO I yi 1 L 1 vw I 1 f f f wr SS s va sk 1 7 v s as 1 I 1 z rt at 3 H jf J f f JS i i f wt rt w p f S W t A w f i W it y A t A ii i i 4 U v M st LJ i y f nt n T 41 r ryd t Y q i nsf ft T i w iw effi a ow f 7 K VI vt ed I 1 1 I ir I 1 io lit ao X 7 t r y RN iu 4 it aa vir A I 1 1 iff y lla ll 1 t 1 ft elal ll al v 4 fe al cp Z 4 4 A fe wf J 5 I 1 T I 1 I 1 A ts j 7 U aa 4 A y al ia kaff Ka if V eai pa t J tsi ts a 4 T i a ja iff liew lb ew 44 ie 7 4 pw I 1 f t y X i HS 1 ir hf g 4 vo 1 a selx n 0 wll W 0 oa W all f 4 I 1 5 W T raw A V 1 19 aa A I 1 gacia gg cia ag zoath lo thirds ot of russia a national rev denue Is 13 defined berned from the sale of 0 vodka and other spirits russia pretends that it is necessary to hold finland la in complete subjection tor for the purpose ol of being able to gain ready access to the harbors on the atlantic coast surely surel to do this it bould be easier to pass pasa through a friendly re glon than one that is hostile great strike succeeds Suc ceede all that ve ne can do is to adopt a firm attitude of cassne resistance but on one occasion NN vo 0 did assert courboin es during the last fleek of october 1903 1905 a great national strike took place simultaneous throughout the country it was the culminating stroke ot of a long series of illegal ar rests imprisonments and other arbi arar measures without or leaders the whole social life of tin fin land was arrested an ali electric cur rent seemed to pass through the peo pie and for five days xo ment eal hungry and unwashed linN asbed and stumbled against each other in the unlit streets there were no factories no shops open no baths no trains no telephones tho the telephone ib a national tion in t inland finland thero there being hardly a cottage that is not provided ded with nith one tho the very school children struck the little finns and swedes marched to the schools and persuaded Ld their arch enemies the russian children to come out and join them in the greit great struggle for or liberty and bands of chil dren trooped through lh the sing ing the tha Marscilla ls mals rals plants rocks minerals all are noted each person contributing his quota of information about the place ho he knows best home and its surroundings photographs are taken of interesting places all social and political events such as aa summer tes fee thai a great bear hunt or the na lional strike ot of 1905 are duly noted and registered this great brotherhood in which every ever man plays plas the part of historian of hla his country has been in existence for 20 ears and has been a tremendous facto in promoting national unit another national institution is the bath bathhouse hou which la is almost the most important im part of a finnish home tho the bathhouse his has been handed down to us from generation to generation dat ing from heathen da das and apart from its utility has a religious significance ance connected with strange core cere monies in bygone times it is built of wood nood of course no proper bathhouse bath bouse can be made of anything but wood for where duliere would bo be that st strange ranie sweet fragrance of 0 steaming pine ind birch and in one corner of the room Is a great fireplace around the fire are placed immense stones round and flat which become very hot water N 1 then poured oner oer the stones bo be that the whole room la Is filled with anith a la Na porous mist hot water vater very hot Is also poured over the person to be bathed as aa he lies on a kind of raised platform in one corner ha is if then beaten with leafy branches branc hka of alrh |