The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-09-24

/ Good Teeth an Aid to Good Health
something for School Authorities and Pa.
4Snts 90 Consider.-"Good Teeth. Coco
/ operation Of the Public Schools in Teaching
T1ate q the Teeth, +" by Richard Grady, NJ. D..
y. u B., dentist Of the United States Nava
9ceoemy. He dwells at some length on the
uanger resulting to school children because Of
ny almost criminal lack Of care of their teeth
Hhas been estimated that half Of the chill.
lren born into the world die before reaching
,nS age Of l6. We can tTuthful1y charge q
laise share Of this great slaughter to ignorance
OF Wilful neglect.
The examination of many mouths has given
me an opportunity of noting the condition of
me teeth Of young people. It would be diff
cuit Ia my opinion, to find like number Of
cnnQren in any public school in as good physi-
eaI condition as those who have received sys-
tematic care of the teeth. A few years ago
discovered that not one of the 500 children in
one OF the public institutions in my city had q
toothbrush. The children Of that institution
are now supplied with them, but fear there
i are many similar institutions in the world
Eneie the toothbrush is never seen and the
dentist never heard Of.
An ounce of prevention is worth pound
Of cure, /" DR.. Grady says.
4 The efficiency Of prevention is proyerbial.
ram is undoubtedly one Of the most dreaded
accompaniments of physical ills. / am fully
persuaded that more than 30 per cent. of dental
CARES is .absolutely preventable by medicines
internally administered which act specifically
10 me mouth; alike pleasing and imperative is
tne appeal to both ambition and intelligence to
i prevent rather than to repair, the ravages Of
/ decay
! ltWould be great saving of young Amer
/ 1ce Hand thereby Of all America, if every board
4 Of health initiated the example of OntariO's
/ noard, which adopted the following resolution:
l #4hat dental inspectors be appointed by local
boards of school trustees to periodically visit
4 dental hospital be started in Toronto for the
/ benefit of poor children; and these recommen-
4 cations be urged upon the attention Of the
i Mlnlater of education"
| Treating diseased teeth of school children at
| p1p'iQe pense seems entirely out of the ques-
ti6h nt pfese1b - hyr lsnli. 11.i
Bona9e to have visiting dentists than visiting
| music teachers and drawing teachers and teach
| ers Of physical culture2
We waft to emphasize the startling fact that
the teeth oFchildren have been deteriorating to
such an exlent that it has now become a seri-
Gus matter. OF all causes of decay uncleanli-
ness is perhaps the most fertile. The clean
tooth may. tecay-the neglected tooth must
decay, IL has lost its chance of self-defense.
A. toothbrush drill at school is as needful as
any gymnastis exercise for the preservation Of
DR.. Grady asays to the child, "Better take
pains than to lave pains take you"
HsThefe is also another source of danger to
children who exchange pencils and chewing
gum, says DIR. Grady, (which after being in
mouths mixed with pus are placed in the
mouths of Other innocent and unsuspecting
children. These practices may be democratic,
b1t they are vicious.
isGirls whose teeth are defective in few
years will be the mothers of the next genera
ton. What about the claims of their children
unless we now do our duty by thefutufe moth
en- and give them q chance to grow up as
healthy women ?''. DR.. D. Hayes Agnew said:
1.-THE world is becoming filled with class of
young women, untitled for the varied andre
sponsible functions of womanhood; qualifica-
tf6ns, too, which under a different regimen
and directed into proper channels would exert
most potential influence on all the great So
cial problems of the age"
Dedication of the Fine Catholic Church
atToWson-The Solemn Services Partici-
pRted IN by Large Crowd. The dedication
Of the Church of the Immaculate, at Tow
son, last Sunday marked the contamination Of
the browning labor in the life Of its venerable
pastor, Rev. Matthew O'Keefe. The con-
stfhction of this elaborate edifce by the al
most unaided efforts of one man-and he past
threescore and ten Of his allotted years-is re-
garded generally as little short of marvellous.
completion has been followed not only by its
own members, but by Catholics generally
throughout the State.
The location Of the church. the interior the
mural and window decorations the affairs and
the magnificent structure itself all harmonic
to form one of the most beautiful churches in
the country. Located on the pinnacle of Mount
Moriah, hill nearly five hundred feet above
the level of the sea, it commands one Of the
finest views in this county. The structure
itself is in entire keeping with its location. It's
massive outlines are at once simple and strik-
inc nd hold If MI ifo mo
biefrom Baltimore county quarries at Beaver
Dam, with trimmings of brown sandstone. A
description of it has heretofore appeared in
The UNION.
began to assemble in hundred at the church.
They came from Baltimore in the trolley cars,
from the neighboring villages, and from the
surrounding country in vehicles, and many
care on foot. 1t was estimated that there
services began at 1910 O'Clock The solemn
O'Keefe, pastor who was assisted by Rev Will
liam A. Reardon, of st. Peters Church; Rev.
Charles Damer, of Holy Cross Church, and
ReY. Joseph Barry, of st: Joseph's Church.
The sermon was preached by Rev. DR.. D. J.
Stafford, of Washington. who took as his text
the Immaculate Conception, after which the
church is named. He paid fine tribute to
the noble and unselfish efforts of Father
OaKeefe in building the church, and congratu-
lated him, his parishioners and the people of
the county.
Before the services closed Cardinal Gibbons
said that he wished to congratulate the people
ofTowson, without regard to creed or religious
conviction, upon the completion of such a
beautiful structure. He paid high tribute to
Father O'Keefe for his unsellish and untiring
labor in erecting the church. and said that
while it had been said that to erect one church
was the work Of one clergyman, Father O Keefe
had erected two; that, after having built in
Norfolk perhaps the finest church in Virginia.
be bad built in Towson, with the exception Of
the Baltimore Cathedral, the finest church in
Maryland The church would be known he
added, as the George W. Abel Memorial, and
would also be known as the Church of the I'm
maculate.
After mass the Cardinal received many of
those who were present in the chapel adjoin-
ing the church.
The committee of arrangements in charge of
TIE services was composed of the following:
JsmesJ. Lindsay. John @. Perkins,
chairman, Bernard Bruins,
g. M. Mullen, John Dohony,
James Kelley. Harry Davis,
Frank /. Wheeler, Parneu Roche,
C.Stewart Lee, Joseph T. Padian,
Martin J.. O'Hara, Albert Weis,
Richard Hanley, Frank Fitzpatrick,
EdWins Fl. Burke, Joseph Billingsley,
p. +. Reddington, Theodore l.. Urban,
Geo. =. Wheeler. Jr.. John Bayne.
Herald of September 10Th contained the fol-
lowing: "Judge G. @. Tracy of Towson, Mary
land, one of the visiting Odd Fellows and
nfan Of considerable prominence in the order
i'll his part of the country, was the hero Of the
day at Saltair yesterday. 1t was due to his
presence of mind and prompt action that Miss
Grace Boyd, of Greenville, Tenn, was not
strangle6 in the lake.
This young woman, who is travelling to the
coast with her parents. ventured out too far
in the water alone. In some way unknown
even to herself she lost her balance and went
under the water. She was rapidly stranging
and in another minute would have been be-
yond help, when Judge Tracy caught sight of
the struggling figure in the water. With all
possible speed he reached her side, picked her
up out of the water and carried her to place
of safety
"The word few about that the girl, who is II
year ofage, had been drowned, and great ex-
Clement was the result among the tourists.
The parents ofthe young woman were distract
Ied9untif they reached her side and learned that
there would be no serious results from the adj
venture.
miss Boyd was sick for about an hour and
suffered much from the effects of the salt in