Foreign Language Press Service

Mrs. Waalers' Mission

Skandinaven, April 19, 1872

A couple of weeks ago I was at Mathiesen's Merchants Hotel to solicit ads for the Old Peoples Home program; I was introduced to a lady from Norway who unknown to me was a philanthropist who was traveling all over the U.S.A. for the purpose of contacting Norwegian girls and boys. She told them about their mother country and bringing them a message from Norway. She is going to give free lectures in all sections of Chicago. She asks all Norwegians to come and have a chat with her. She will take names and addresses of their families and call upon them on her return to Norway.

She is the wife of Major Hjalmar Waalers of the Norwegian Army, and a daughter of Bishop Christian Dick in Norway.

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