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    "ocrText": "OLOF KRARER\nNEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS\nWHILE VOLUMES HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN PRAISE OF MISS\nKRARER IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES AND\nTO THE PUBLIC OR WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.\nCANADA, LIMITED SPACE WILL ONLY PERMIT\nTHE PUBLICATION OF A FEW EXTRACTS.\nS\nINCE MISS KRARER came under the Bureau management in 1888 she has\ndelivered over six hundred lectures in the leading and smaller cities of the\nUnion, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Her reputation has become national and\nFROM THE FROZEN NORTH.\nis only one social distinction-the man who\nowns a flint for making fire is looked upon\nher name almost a household word. The profits from her lectures in the city of\nA very appreciative audience was at Schu-\nas a big gun, but he is bound by custom to\nPhiladelphia alone, for the benefit of churches, have amounted to over $10,000.\netzen Hall last evening to hear Miss Olof\nloan it freely and without remuneration.\nKrarer tell of the Eskomo land. The lec-\nWater-that is, fresh water-is unknown,\nA charity in New York cleared over $650 at one afternoon lecture. Many a\nturer is a tiny woman, but the most valuable\nand from the day of a child's birth to its\nchurch debt has been raised and a weak lecture course freed from debt by the\narticles come in small parcels. She rarely\ndeath it knows not the luxury of a bath.\nsmiled, never grew vehement, and rarely\nThese people have no religion, although\nreceipts from one of her lectures.\ngesticulated. More than once, when speak-\nthey believe there are some good and bad\nThe Bureau in her behalf takes this occasion to thank the many hundreds of\ning of the hardships of her country people,\nspirits, and Miss Krarer stated her belief\nher eyes glistened and her voice grew softly\nthat the Christian ideas of heaven and hell\npeople and the press of the country for the uniform kindness and attention received\nsympathetic. Memory made her eloquent.\nwould have to be modified before any at-\nat their hands. In all our dealings with this wonderful little women, she has\nwas born in Greenland,\" was the simple\ntempt were made by missionaries to Chris-\nsentence with which she began her lecture.\ntianize her people. Otherwise, she said, she\nalways been found strictly honest and truthful.\nThen she told how, after living in the terrible\nwas afraid that their fancy would be so cap-\nFor several years after the arrival of Miss Krarer in the United States, and\ncold of that dark land until she was fifteen\ntivated by the reputed temperature of the\nyears old, she crossed the frozen sea on a\nbad place that they would all want to go\neven now, it has been very difficult for her to live through the summer months; she\nsled drawn by dogs to Iceland. There she\nthere at once. The women of her country,\nhas, on the other hand, taken long rides during our coldest days in winter, with\nlearned to speak the Icelandic language, a\nshe said, lived a life of pathetic idleness and\ntongue very dissimilar to her own, and re-\nhelplessness, with no housework no washing,\nonly her ordinary apparel, without the slightest discomfort, while those accompany-\nceived the rudiments of an education at a\nno fancy work, no no cooking.\ning her were nearly frozen to death.\nmission school. In her own land there were\nAll meat is eaten raw, and this is the sole\nneither preachers, doctors, lawyers, nor rulers\nfood. The main occupation of the men was\nMiss Krarer has not a single living relative in the world SO far as she knows.\nof any kind. In Iceland she found all these.\nhunting, walrus, seals, polar bears, reindeer\nHer race have no communication with the civilized world, and besides they do not\nAt home people never washed themselves,\nand occasional whales being their game, and\nand in Iceland she was handed a piece of\nthis being done mainly in hetwilight period,\neven know our language their own language contains only a few words whereby\nsoap. She did not know the use of it, and put\nlasting four months of the year. The re-\nthey can be understood among themselves.\nit in her mouth. At the age of twenty she\nmainder of the year is made up of four\nwent from Iceland to Manitoba, in British\nmonths of perpetual night, lighted by the\nWe have her own statement of her life, and as she tells it, it is more interest-\nAmerica, and several years ago removed to\nstars and moon, and four months of daylight.\ning than a fairy tale. Miss Krarer will sing a song in her native language and\nWisconsin. There she was compelled to\nThe latter is the hardest time for the Esqui-\nlive in a room in which ice was kept, until she\nmaux, as large numbers of them are afflicted\nduring a portion of the evening she will appear in her native costume, and at the\nbecame acclimated. At the close of the lec-\nwith snow-blindness, caused by the dazzling\nture Miss Krarer retired and attired herself\neffect of the sun on ice and snow.\nclose of her lecture, any one in the audience is at liberty to ask her any proper\nin the native Esquimaux costume. It was\nThe only record of time kept by these pri-\nquestions concerning her life and her nativity. Some of the ablest legal talent in\nmade of a white polar bear's skin, with the\nmitive people is by means of a bone bag-\nthe country have taken advantage of this privilege, but Miss Krarer is always\nfur outside, and consisted of pantaloons and\none bone being dropped into a fur bag on\na tunic surmounted by a peaked cap attached\nthe day on which the sun is first seen each\nequal to every occasion and emergency, because she tells the truth.\nto the main garment. The little woman\nyear. The sick and aged are treated in a\nDuring the past two seasons Miss Krarer has delivered more lectures than\nsmiled, look pretty, now,\" she said, and\nmanner equally brutal, being almost totally\nthe audience laughed. A peculiarity of her\nneglected. If the sick recover, well and\nher strength would really permit, and for that reason it will be necessary in future\nenunciation was the celtic tone at close of\ngood if they die, that's the end. A hole\nto limit the number of her engagements, but first applications will receive most\nher sentences. The audience was a large\nis dug in the snow and they are buried.\nand pleased one.-Neenah (Wis.) Times.\nNone are discontented, for they know no\nfavorable dates,\nbetter state. Yet, Miss Krarer says her peo-\nple are dying out. They are becoming\nA GREENLAND WOMAN\nmore stunted in growth and shorter-lived\nRETURN DATES BEST EVIDENCE OF SUCCESS.\nevery generation. Miss Krarer, dressed in\nSHE LECTURES BEFORE A LARGE AUDIENCE\nEsquimaux garb, sang a couple of songs in\nAT IRVINGTON.\nThe following are only a few of the cities where Miss Krarer has repeated\nthe language of Iceland and East Greenland.\nAn appreciative audience greeted Miss\n-Newark, N. J. Evening News, Dec. I,\nher lecture more than twice in the past four years\nOlaf Krarer, the Esquimaux lecturer, at the\n1891.\nPhiladelphia\n77 Times.\nCleveland, o.\n4 Times.\nIrvington rink last night. She is a pleasant-\nfaced little woman, only three feet five inches\nA HYPOBOREAN MAIDEN.\nSt. Louis, Mo.\n3\n\"\nChicago, III.\n8\nin height and weighing I20 pounds, who left\nMISS OLAF KRARER DELIVERS AN ENTER-\nNew York\n9\nBaltimore, Md.\n3\n\" €\nGreenland with a party of Icelanders and\nTAINING LECTURE AT THE Y. M. C. A.\nBrooklyn, N.\n7\nCortland, N. Y.\n3\n\"\nwas educated by missionaries in Iceland.\nJersey City, N.\n5\nAurora, III.\n5\n\"\nShe told many interesting things about East\nThe speaker's platform at Y. M. C. A. hall\nGreenland, of which so little is known. In\nlast evening presented a very Arctic appear-\nAlbany, N. Y.\n3\nToledo, O.\n3\n\" E\nher native land, she said, they have no\nance, covered with polar bear skins and\nSyracuse, N. Y.\n3\nOrange, N.J\n3\n\"\ngovernment, no laws, no written language\nwhite draperies, with a silver fox skin\nDetroit, Mich.\n3\nNewark, N..\n3\n\"\nand no man is greater than another. There\nmounted over the speakers stand. This"
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