Scalawags Beware

Not long ago tall, grave King Haakon VII belied his stern appearance, made the first contribution to a fund for the benefit of a woman with two children who, beaten repeatedly by her husband, finally killed him with an axe.

Again last week the ready sympathy of highly placed Norwegians for wronged women was proved at Oslo. By special act of the Storting (Parliament) a sum of money "sufficient to assist Fru Amanda Anderson in her present difficulties" was placed at her disposal by the Statskassen (Treasury).

Fru Anderson's "difficulties": Herr Anderson recently galavanted to Chicago, obtained a divorce there, remarried.

Financed by her Government, deserted Fru Anderson will soon sail for Chicago. There the local Norwegian consul is instructed to assist her in setting aside her husband's divorce decree, proving him a bigamist liable to the full penalty of the law.

The Norwegian Treasury will also defray the expenses of Fru Anderson's return (triumphal it is hoped) to Oslo. Public sentiment there holds that too long have scalawag husbands found it comparatively easy to leave their faithful wives stranded in Norway while they revel in what one Oslo editor called last week "the easy prosperity and dissolute high life of the States."

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