Miss Olof Krarer, esquimau

              Miss Olof Krarer

ESQUIMAU
AGE 45 YEARS           HEIGHT 45 INCHES
WEIGHT 100 POUNDS
Has  delivered   1,250  lectures during the past fourteen years and has been, since 1888, under the sole management of the
Slayton Lyceum Bureau, Steinway Hall, Chicago
MISS  OLOF  KRARER
Has become one of the best known lecturers that ever appeared on the lyceum platform. She does not appear as a freak or a curiosity, but on her merits. The Bureau always guarantees that she will give entire satisfaction to any audience, however critical. Large sums of money have been made from her lectures by churches, charity organizations and lyceums. Many a church debt has been raised and a weak lecture course freed from debt by the receipts from one of her lectures.
For several years after the arrival of Miss Krarer in the United States it was very difficult for her to live through the
summer months; she has, on the other hand, taken long rides during our coldest days in winter, with only her ordinary apparel, without the slightest discomfort, while those accompanying her were nearly frozen to death.
The simple story of her life, as she tells it, is more interesting than a fairy tale. At the close of her lecture any one in the audience is at liberty to ask her any proper questions concerning her life and native country. Some of the ablest legal talent in the country have taken advantage of this privilege, but Miss Krarer is always equal to every occasion and emergency. The Bureau, in her behalf, takes this occasion to thank the many hundreds of people and the press of the country for the uniform kindness and attention received at their hands. During the past Miss Krarer has delivered more lectures than her strength would really permit, and for that reason it will be necessary in the future to limit the number of her engagements, but first applications will receive most favorable dates.
The following are only a few of the cities where Miss Krarer has repeated her lecture more than twice in the past few years:
Philadelphia, Pa.,......85 times
Chicago, Ill.,........14 times
New York,.........9 times
Brooklyn, N. Y.,......7 times
Jersey City, N. J.,    .....5 times
Albany, N. Y.,.......3 times
Syracuse, N. Y.,    ......3 times
Detroit, Mich.,.......3 times
Mt. Pleasant, la ,......3 times
Cleveland, O.,........5 times
St. Louis, Mo.,.......3 times
Baltimore, Md ,.......6 times
Cortland, N. Y,     ......3 times
Aurora, Ill.,     ........5 times
Toledo, O.,.........3 times
Orange, N. J.,     .......3 times
Newark, N. J.,.......3 times
Dayton, O.,.........3 times
MISS  OLOF   KRARER
Newark (N. J.) Evening News—An appreciative audience greeted Miss Olof Krarer,the Esquimau lecturer, at the Irvington rink last night. She is a pleasant-faced little woman, only three feet five inches in height and weighing 120 pounds, who left Greenland with a party of Icelanders and was educated by missionaries in Iceland. She told many interesting things about East Greenland, of which so little is known. In her native land, she said, they have no government, no laws, no written language, and no man is greater than another. There is only one social distinction—the man who owns a flint for making fire is looked upon as a big gun, but he is bound by custom to loan it freely and without remuneration. Water—that is, fresh water—is unknown, and from the day of a child's birth to its death it knows not the luxury of a bath. These people have no religion although they believe there are some good and bad spirits, and Miss Krarer stated her belief that the Christian ideas of heaven and hell would have to be modified before any attempt was made by missionaries to Christianize her people. Otherwise, she said, she was afraid that their fancy would be so captivated by the reputed temperature of the bad place that they would all want to go there at once. The women of her country, she said, lived a life of pathetic idleness and helplessness, with no housework, no washing, no fancy work, no amusement and no cooking. All meat is eaten raw, and this is the sole food. The main occupation of the men was hunting; walrus, seals, polar bear, reindeer, and occasional whales being their game, and this being done mainly in the twilight period, lasting four months of the year. The remainder of the year is made up of four months of perpetual night, lighted by the stars and moon, and four months of daylight. The latter is the hardest time for the Esquimaux, as large numbers of them are afflicted with snow-blindness,caused by the dazzling effect of the sun on the ice and snow. The only record of time kept by these primitive people is by means of a bone bag—one bone being droped into a fur bag on the day on which the sun is first seen  each year.    The sick and aged are treated in a manner equally brutal, being almost totally neglected. If the sick recover, well and good; if they die that's the end; a hole is dug in the snow and they are buried. None are discontended, for they know no better state. Yet Miss Krarer says, her people are dying out. They are becoming more stunted in growth and shorter-lived every generation. Miss Krarer, dressed in Esquimau garb, sang a couple of songs in the language of Iceland and East Greenland.
Holyoke (Mass.) Paper — Last night a large audience assembled in the city hall and listened to Miss Olof Krarer's talk on "Greenland, or Life in the Frozen North." Since her visit to this city two years ago Miss Krarer has increased her knowledge of English and entertained her audience finely. The lecture was the same as that given by her when she lectured under the auspices of the Scientific Association. Last evening, at the close of her lecture, Miss Krarer appeared in northern costume, a genuine polar bear skin from its natural state, which she had taken great pains to secure. The costume worn when she was last here was made by her mother and sister. In order to preserve the work of their hands, Miss Krarer put it away and had the new and handsome one made in which she appeared last night. When seen yesterday afternoon at Hotel Hamilton, Miss Krarer appeared in the best of health and spirits. She is accompanied by Miss Hogan, an agreeable young lady and charming companion. Miss Krarer still finds this climate trying, and during the summer months seeks the coolest spot she can find. The West has been a favorite resort, but owing to an attack of malaria, that is given up. Miss Krarer hopes to arrange a trip to Iceland during a summer vacation. She has never seen her native country since she left it a child. Tomorrow she speaks in Westfield, next in Warren. Almost every night she is engaged and business increases every season.
West Chester (Pa.) Republic — Olof Krarer fairly captivated her audiences at the Normal yesterday afternoon and last evening.  The story of the life of the inhabitants of Greenland became doubly entertaining when related in the quaint broken English of this bright and witty little native of that frozen land. The Normal School course of lecture thus inaugurated promises to exceedingly popular and will no doubt have a large patronage.
Manchester (Iowa) Union —The lecture on Greenland by Miss Olof Krarer at the city hall last evening in aid of the Orphans' Home was one of the most interesting and instructive lectures ever heard in this city.
Vicksburg (Miss.)  Daily Commercial Herald —
Miss Olof Krarer's pictures of life from a Green-lander's standpoint afforded a very large audi¬ence at the opera house, last night, a unique experience, of which not the least entertaining feature was the personality of the speaker. She is scarcely taller than a ten-year-old girl, a neat, trim, plump little woman, with very bright eyes and a countenance that has nothing un¬familiar in its appearance, such a one as might be seen anywhere in the United States and in no respect Mongolian or Indian. Her accent is peculiar and in spite of her evident mastery of English made it rather difficult to follow her decidedly piquant address. Miss Krarer dis¬played much humor in her lecture and her naive apology for the lack of a portion of the ordinary attire of a Greenland woman—the trousers—was very amusing. Hers is a plain, unvarnished story, that of a sensible, educated woman,depict¬ing the terrible conditions of life around the North Pole. It was deeply interesting, however, and the audience frequently applauded her. She sang a pretty song in the Icelandic dialect, besides an Esquimau love-song, which would no doubt impress a damsel of the frozen coast as something too altogether lovely. The lecture was given under the auspices of the Circle of the Silver Cross, King's Daughters, and was a financial success.
Brooklin (N. Y.) Daily Eagle —The hall of the Young Men's Christian Association was well filled last evening by an audience gathered to hear the lecture of Miss Olof Krarer, an Esquimau lady from the eastern shores of Greenland, her subject being "Greenland, or Life in the Frozen North." Miss Krarer is the only Esquimau lady in the United States, and her lecture was unusually interesting. Not the least interesting feature of the entertainment was the little lady herself. She is only 40 inches in height, though on the stage she looks slightly taller. Her head is large and out of proportion with her body; complexion dark, but not swarthy, and her hair, parted in plain old-fashioned style, is of a light brown color. She was very attractively dressed in white, plenti¬fully trimmed with lace. 
Detroit (Mich.) Free Press —The speaker's plat form at Y. M. C. A. hall last evening presented a very Arctic appearance, covered with polar bear skins and white draperies, with a silver fox skin mounted over the speaker's stand. This was done to be in consonance with the character of the evening's entertainment, a lecture on the Esquimaux of Greenland, by Miss Olof Krarer, a native of that hypoborean region. At a few minutes pass 8, Secretary Newman presented the speaker and the anticipations of the audience were at once raised to a high pitch by the singu¬larity of the lady's appearance. She was deci¬dedly short, being only 3 feet 4 inches in height, and weighing 100 pounds. Otherwise her ap¬pearance did not vary strikingly from that of many a German maid, met with daily in Detroit. She spoke with a peculiar patois, and plunged at once into her story.
Mount Pleasant (Iowa) Free Press —As a psy¬chological study, the little lady from Greenland, who gave her second lecture in this city last Thursday evening, is probably unexcelled on this continent; and as a study in heredity or the influence of vocation and environment for successive generations upon the body she is equally so. * * * Miss Krarer's person bears corroborative testimony to the claim of her being a native of Greenland, whose racial de¬velopments are as marked and as universal as color in Caucasia or Africa; and the indices of nationality in every unmixed people on earth. * * * But it is Miss Krarer as an intelligent and agreeable lady that is most interesting. The evolution from the national, natal con¬dition of absolute non-exertion, into the con¬sciousness of being a responsible, immortal, spiritual being; gracious in self-reliance, digni¬fied in self-respect and potent in an intelligent, conscious, self-hood; attractive in demeanor, and gracious and punctilious in every point of social relations, she is certainly the most inter¬esting personality to the student of mind that it is possible to find on this continent. The school people who failed to see and hear this speaker failed to see and hear a most suggestive object lesson in psychical development under the Christian idea of the nature of God and man. It is through Mr. Fred Hope that Miss Krarer was engaged to come to Mt. Pleasant. Having heard her in Washington, D. C, and knowing the interest she awakened in her audiences in that city, he induced the people of the Christian church to bring her here. Should she ever come again, let those who did not hear her upon this occasion be sure to do so.
Sioux City (Iowa) Journal —At the Y. M. C. A.
auditorium last night Miss Olof Krarer, the Es¬quimau woman, lectured on the customs of her people. The audience was intensely inter¬ested in the lecture.