Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 296, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1927 — Page 22

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IBSEN’S BROTHER, A FAILURE. POOR, DIEDjNAMERICA Ancient Tombstone in lowa Source of Pathetic, Romantic Tale. Bu United Press ESTHERVILLE, la., March 18.— While his illustrious brother, Henrik, accepted the plaudits of a literary world, Nicolai Ibsen was going through poverty and near starvation on the western plains of lowa. This was disclosed recently when workers in an old Norwegian cemetery near here discovered an ancient tombstone. It was cleaned of debris and the following inscription found: “Nicolai Ibsen.'* “By Strangers Honored and By Strangers Mourned.'-’ Brothers Educated A little investigation disclosed the following romantic tale of the almost poverty-stricken brother of the famous dramatist and poet. Henrik Ibsen was born in Norway in 1828. His brother Nickolal was born in 1834. The family was medium wealthy and both boys were educated. The older brother, however, immediately took up playwriting which did not meet with the good graces of the father. The younger brother —a hunchback —went into business. Nicolai Ibsen failed. His father reestablished his son in business and a second time Nicolai failed. That night he left his home in Norway, rather than face his father, and came to America. In Middle West He worked as far west as Chicago, and there ran short of finances. He sold his- gold watch and gained sufficient money to get to a Norwegian settlement in Wisconsin where he became a sheep herder. From Wisconsin he went to lowa on a 40-acre farm he had obtained through trading, and later came here as a sheep herder and farmer of very little means. Only once did he disclose his strange story and his relationship to the famous Henrik. That was when an advertisement was inserted in a Norwegian newspaper that his father had died and a search was being made for Nicolai Ibsen so that he might share in the estate. Michael Berlow found the advertisement and told Ibsen of it. Ibsen refused to answer the advertisement. When he died, notification was sent to members of his family in Norway and it was learned they thought he was dead or wandering about Europe. His funeral expenses were paid by neighbors.

CURIOUS ERROR IN MARRIAGE LAWS Man Cannot Take Brother’s Son’s Widow as Bride. Bu United Press I LONDON, March 18.—A curious oversight in the law of England makes it illegal for a man to marry his brother’s widow. This was revealed in a ruling by Magistrate Clarke Hall after studying two “marriage problems” put before him. They were: “Can I marry the widow of my brother’s son?” and “Can I marry my late wife's mother's sister?” The questions were ,asked by two men, each of whom insisted lie was deeply in love with the woman in /lueslipn. The magistrate ruled: “These marriages are forbidden uhder the old law as set out in the tables at the end of the Book of Common Prayer. The prohibited degree of relationship has been modified comparatively recently by the Acts -as T 907 and 1921, whereby marriage Is permitted with a deceased wife’s '"t-r and a deceased brother’s widow. Apparently it never occuri a to the Ltgislature in passing these acts to extend them to what is a far more remote relationship, namely a brother’s son's wife.”

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PRINCE AT NAVY SCHOOL Bu United Press TOKIO. March 18. —Prince Takamatsu, a youngeh brother of the Emperor. vvill be graduated from the Naval Torpedo School in July, after which he will become a member of the crew of a training squadron that will visit a number of American ports, on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. The squadron will consist of the cruisers Iwate and Asams. After his return to Japan, in the spring of 1928, Prince Takamatsu will leave for England to enter a university, probably Oxfard, where he will be in residence for one or two years. PLAN 01,D MAIDS’ HOTEL WASHINGTON, March 18.—To aid in eliminating the housing problem for government employes, a hotel exclusively for “old maids” has been proposed for this city. The ijlan inincludes the building of a number of small, cozy “courting parlors” where guests may entertain their friends.

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SUICIDES AMONG YOUNG PERSONS SHOWDECREASE Statistician Declares Decline Continues Despite Recent Student Flurry. Bu Times Special NEW YORK, March 18.—The general tendency of the suicide rate among young persons has been dow-n----ward for the last sixteen years, in spite of the recent flurry of suicides among students, according to Louis I. Dublin, statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. “Suicides among minors constitute a very small fraction of the total numbers of suicidal deaths in the United States,” said Dr. Dublin. "In childhood, that is, at ages under fifteen, there is no problem at all in this country. During the two years, 1923 and 1924, only seventyeight suicides out of the total of 23,348 In the United States registration syea were those of children; that is, only three-tenths of 1 per cent of the total. Figures Show Decline Between fifteen and twenty years suicide does assume some numerical importance, with about 3 per cent of all the deaths from this cause In the general population of the country. The Metropolitan's experience among about tw-o million young people at these ages, Industrial policy holders, has shown that the trend of suicides since 1911 has been downward. To illustrate by figures: 4he rate from this cause among white boys at ages fifteen to nineteen, in 1911, was 6.7 per 100,000; 6.6 in 1912 and 7.3, the maximum, In 1913. Last year, as well as In 1925, the figures was only 8.9; that is, about one-half the rate of fourteen years ago. For girls the Improvement has been even greater. The highest suicide rate during the period 1911 to 1926 was 10.1, recorded in 1911, and and the lowest rate 2.9 in 1925. Last year the figure was 3.4 or only onethird of the 1911 rate. For the first month of the current year, our records show only two cases of suicide among insured white persons of these ages. This constitutes but two per cent of the suicides reported during January among Metropolitan Industrial policy holders and is considerably less than the average figure for the entire

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