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GENERAL
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1940
Leaves 40 Below Sweden---improvements—not a war machine. Sweden wants peace as much or more than any other nation, Ingrid will assure you.
Student Comes To Kansas To Wear First Ear Muffs
By Bill Fey, c'41
She saw her first pair of earmuffs this winter. And that's unusual for Ingrid Frestadius, c'sp, comes from a country which is a good many million years nearer the last ice age than Kansas. She has seen temperatures of 40 below—but no earmuffs.
But that isn't all by far. She has been also introduced to her first stocking cap; has, for the first time, seen women parade slacks into a classroom; laughed at a porkle hat saying, "Boys at home would feel conspicuous in that."
A full quarter of the entire Swedish population belongs to co-operative stores. Competing stores must hold their prices down or lose business. The Swedish governmental set-up is a limited monarchy, which, if you know about your governments, requires a king and elected legislative bodies with a few odd ministers thrown in, she said.
Ingrid Freastad writes to Stockholm, about American customs in general, and Hill customs in particular. She is an exchange scholar here to make the most of an American education and adopt a few of our odd customs.
She learns quickly. She can make a coke last as long as any co-ed, now that she has had a semester of practice.
When Ingrid left her native mountains last summer no one thought of war. Now she can think of nothing else. The Swedish newspapers from home are smeared with war news. Her mail is sometimes censored.
"If Sweden were to declare war on Russia, would you have to go home," I asked.
"No. I wouldn't have to go, and my parents would rather have me stay in America." She hesitated.
"But I think I would go home."
This going to school in America is fascinating to Ingrid Freestadius, because she has the inherent faculty of "getting fun out of life." Ingrid enjoys everything she does, and she does plenty. This young lady of the blue eyes and corn-silk hair is a very popular co-ed. She isn't a "foreigner" at all. Only in her acent. She is as much at ease, dresses no differently, and uses collegiate patois as loosely as any girl in any American university.
Although throughout most of its history Sweden has been a belligerent little country, since World War it has put its money into education, public utilities and internal
Ingrid has had formal schooling in Sweden and at Paris University. But her best education is the self-taught kind, picked up in Budapest, and Fort Worth, and Vienna, and Salina, and Berlin, and Kansas City. Her forte is ianguages at which American groans.
"But you don't need to know foreign languages" she will argue. "You can travel from coast to coast and speak English. If I go from Stockholm to Paris, I must know four languages. It is much different over there."
Stockholm has nearly twice the population of Kansas City but is confined to a tenth of the area. Tentory apartment houses solve the space problem and put Mr. Frestadius within 15 minutes walking of his office. Ingrid's father imports iron, sells steel, and, of all things, neckties. He used to be interested in chocolates and gramaphone records.
Confined as they are in the city most of the citizens of Stockholm have summer homes on the archipelago off the eastern coast. A nice arrangement for peace times but disastrous during bombing.
The latest attraction for Inglud has been the Nelson Art gallery in Kansas City. She marvelled at the amount of room they have.
"At the Louvre in Paris the Rem-
rand room is so small that you have to look up at the pictures like this," and she cocked her head at he clock directly over her.
Appointment Bureau Places Two in Teaching Jobs
Iwin Douglas, who received a doctor's degree in chemistry at the University in 1932, and Ernest Barnard, who received the degree of master of science rt the end of the 1939 summer session, have been placed in teaching position, the Teachers Appoinment bureau announced today.
Douglas, has been placed in the chemistry department at the University of Maine next fall, and Barnard will become superintendent of schools at Axtell next year.
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