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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-05

sane asylums Of that state. presumably driven
there by the dreadful monotOny of country life
The assertion Of monotony is amusing to an!
che who is mt all familiar with country life III
that state as well as in some others An low"
farmers institute lecturer cites physician at
the state hospital for the insane TO prove that
10 excessive proportion of the inmates OF That
institution do come from the FARMS aIHl that or
the women from the farms notably large per-
ceiitage are women Of town birth and breeding
who married farmers, and. going into the coun-
try unprepared and untitled for the work. after
lives of compa r. tive idleness or purely mental
labor. could not readily adapt themselves to the
changed conditions Such a combination Of
work and worry must inevitably. in limited
number Of cases. result disastrously.
That farmers as n class are too intent on the
lractical things Of life is true i'm the main
This is probably their greatest misfortune. al
though the evil is more apparent to observers on
the outside thsn to themselves. And that it is
this rather than4the hard work or lack of finan-
cial gain that drives many bright young men
10 the city is equally true. IF the discussion
arouses the farmer 10 q realization of the fact
that country life can be made just as attractive
as life in the city. well as just as profitable
on the average. the old veXatiOus problem OF
how 10 keep boys and girls on the farms will he
solved
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-05
THE talk OF THE DAY.

There's one place in New York where spring Is
eagerly awaited and quickly recognized. II there
isn't any other. and that s IN the Offices Of the
Department of Street Cleaning. Bill Edwards.
Commissioner. sat in two chairs on Wednesday and
frowned at Jim Hogan when the Yale deputy
said he'd heard OF IN March often and
often" II robins in the park yesterday" said
big Bill" i ice in New Haven Sun
day" rejoined Hogan. but I saw the Southern
Wild ducks that come 10 town every spring In the
park the other day" put in Mr. Buckwalter the
secretary Wen. anyhow" said the Commissioner,
'the official opinion Of this department is that
there isn't going to be any more snow, and that
Princeton will whip Yale next fall" The Yale
deputy started to differ but jus5 then the telephone
bell rang and his superior officer made him
answer it. Since yesterday the mention of March
weather at headquarters has been a dismissable
offence.
SO your boy Josh is an inventor, -
invented lot O labor saving devices"
Excuses for not working. Washington Star.
The Jefferson correspondent Of "The Lewiston
CMeD Journal thus takes up the cause of the gray
squirrel: "A bill is before the Maine Legislature
to repeal the law Of 1907 prohibiting the killing Of
gray squirrels. The accusation is that they eat the
eggs OF birds. Your correspondent for many years
has observed the habits Of this pretty. harmless
animal in forests in my orchard and IN my lawn
trees. Their food is chiefly acorns. no fruit and
but little corn. They hide acorns under leaves In
soft soil and in various places. In winter they dig
down through the at times for them but
those found sprout in spring 20 reforest waste
places Gilman A. Drew, director and curator OF
zoology IN the museum of natural history, Uni
versity OF Maine, informs 4 have never heard
that the gray squirrel is troublesome about eating
birds eggs. The red squirrel is well known to be
n nuisance In this iegard but do not believe that
the race of gray squirrels egg eaters.
mo one should drink water that hasn't been
boiled for least hour.
You are a physician, presume?
Nope Coal dea Ter. Cleveland Leader
The committee of one hundred who had in charge
the celebration of Lincoln Day in Chicago finds
itself In the lucky position of having about $4,000
of its funds left over Various plans for using the
money have been suggested. The desire of n ma
inrty Of the members OF the committee is to use
the surplus now on It's hands TO found perma-
nent memorial 1or Lincoln. Some are desrous mat
the fund be ASIDE and its interest used annually
for a Lincoln celebration. Others want to give 1t
"a charity or the promotion of other memorials
polly Prim-They tell nue. You are dissipatted 4
,ounz man. Now, ! suppose you never see the
sun rise. - -. os.a, s+o, IN ouits
that late.-Philadephia RECORD
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TOuEN IN SERVT4.

From suffragettes TO Servia seems far cry
despite the temporal conjunction Of the agitated
activities of both. Yet, even China and Peru
may on classic authority be comprised in the
same conspectus. Indeed, may assume that
TO the sufragette Servia is not at all devoid
of interest, the lot of women in that country
seeming in the fancy of the advanced American
or Briton 20 be that OF benightedneSS and woe.
little better than that of "a slave, along with
the barbarous Turk II is not Impossible that
one of the earliest impulses of triumphant suf-
fragettes would be TO move for diplomatic rep
reservations. educational embassies or what
not, TO rouse their sisters ia partibns infdeliBm
10 n sense of the haplessness Of their estate
and 10 an ambition TO chain themselves to the
horns OF the altar. TO the ratings OF the par-
lament house, until they should be heard for
their shril shrieking.
more informed and thoughtful view. how
ever. presents the situation in far different
light. In \ brief but most Illuminating address
in this city recently Princess Eleanor Iazaro-
yich. who has for some years been a leader in
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THE INAUGURATION DATE.

The hindsight of Congress in defeating all
plans for such change in our political calendar
as would shift Inauguration day from March 4
10 April 30 amply indicated yesterday,
when one of those chilling storms which early
March is capable OF incubating visited Washing
ton and sadly upset the inauguration pro
Iramme. Yesterdays visitation was not vastly
worse In degree than those which spoiled the
inaugurations of 1889 and 1893. But wiser
c0unsels prevailed this year and President Taft
made his inaugural address in the Senate Cham
ber instead of going outside and speaking from
the stand erected in front of the main entrance
TO the Capitol. President Harrison in 1880 and
President Cleveland in 1898 spoke in the face Of
the storm, and most of the invited guests whose
official positions required them to be present
suffered seriously from exposure. Many deaths
resulted from the carrying through Of the inau-
guration programmes of those years and even
in 1905, when the sun shone but the day was
cold three deaths-those of Senator William b.
Bate of Tennessee; Manuel Aspiroz. Ambassa-
dor of Mexico and Justice Lawrence Weldon. Of
the United States Court of Claims-were attrib-
uted to maladies contracted on the Capitol
stand.
Following the distressing experiences OF
March 4. 1898. Senator Hoar. Of Massa chusetts.
secured the passage by the Senate Of a bill sub
hitting constitutional amendment which pro
rlded Tor n lengtnenlng OF the term OF one
President and one Congress, so as TO make April
30 instead Of March the day for a change I'm
administrations. But the House Of Representa-
tives. after much backing and filling declined To
pass the HOar measure, on the ground that it
was only n scheme 'to prevent few Congress
men from catching cold SO the old calendar
has remained In force, ii being left TO the ca
prices of season whether the outdoor ceremony
should or should not endanger the lives of those
compelled by custom to participate in It,
The advantages of a change III the date OF the
Inauguration are obvious. Besides insuring
more propitious weather for a great popular
spectacle, n postpoGement until April 30 would
allow Congress mere time in which to do the
work Of the short session. That session is now
too brief Both houses of Congress will be
called together In special session this month.
They could take up with advantage the proposal
to do away with the discomforts and dangers Of
a stornl-swept inauguration. There Is more in
that proposal than petty project ITO prevent a
few Congressman from catching cold
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SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.

tRy Telegraph 20 The Tribunal
Newport. March flames J. Van Allen and his
daughter Miss May Van Allen. according 70 tnfor-
nation that has reached Newport. are TO spend the
coming summer season at their Newport estate,
Wakehurst. It has been number of seasons since
Mr. Van Allen spent the entire summer here, and
his return will be welcomed by the summer colony
Mr. Van Allen has been spending the greater part of
his time the last few years at his estate in Eng
land.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. NICK Twombly will also be
back In Newport during the coming summer Vine
land the TwombIy summer home, has been under
repairs and enlargement for the last two summers
Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones and Miss Sadie
Jones who had been making a short stay IN New
port departed to-day FOR New York
Richard Peters arrived tonight 70 be the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Tuck French.
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AGRICULTURAL UPLIFT.

Even though Is may be. as many sgricutursts
and authorities on agriculture distinction
between the two having occasionally been noted
are saying. that there are several varieties of
citizens more in need of active assistance along
the lines OF Gpiift than the tillers of the SOIL
there can be little question that the results of
the labors Of the Country Life Commission have
been helpful 10 the interests Of the farmers
These Men did not start with the intention of
proving that the farmer was a miserable Great
rre whose woes would wiring tears of pity
from the eyes Of the metropolitan street cleaner,
or from his far Jess fortunate brother, the
sxreatshop worker in the slums. and no enc will
feel disappointed if proofs are multiplied that
the producers Of sixty-cent corn and dollar
wheat are to be congratulated rather than
pitIed
Had the question never been brought up for
consideration mEny persons would never have
known that the farmers. instead Of being in
slined 70 look upon themselves unfortunates.
fost that on the whole, they could spare a little
sympathy for great majority of the people of
the city. There is no farmer bur is sure OF his
living. unless perhaps he settles in some arid
region whore none but the mentally incompetent
would attempt 10 raise crops. while il IS said
Tat j.: New York alone at least one-ifth of the
people are so near tie verge OF actual want. If
no, already numbered among The needy. that
e-ery cay brings its anxiety as 10 where the
rusrrow's food supply must come from.
iowa is one OF the most strictly agricultural
of the states. and paragraph has been going
tie rounds Of tbe press relative TO the proper
r4on OF country women 10 be found in the in
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NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Mrs VanderbiIts guests this evening are asked
for 10 o'clock it is shortly after that hour that
the theatrical performance will begin or which
mention has already been made in this column
The ballroom of the house IN West 5sth street mas
been converted into theatre with a stage erected
at the northern end thereof. The plays, which are
in French, will consist of La Chambre $40. IN
which the four parts will be taken by Mrs Gordon
Knox Bell who is the author of the comedietta;
her husband, also the Comte de Ganay and the
Vicomte de Perigny The second play. entitled
lie Cant" by Paul BiIhaud and Maurice Henne-
quin. will be presented by Miss Eleanor Whitridge
Miss Bell Gurnee. the Cofnte de Ganay, Mrs Cor
don Knox Bell and NJ de Perisny
Mrs Clarence H Mackay gave luncheon yes
terday at her horse in Madison avenue In honor
OF Lady Paget. Among those present were Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt. Mrs James Speyer, Mrs
Theodore H Havemeyer, Mrs. James H. stillman'
Mrs Philip Lydig Mrs. George J. Gould. Miss Ida
Tarbell and Mrs Batch
Mrs. william X Vanderbilt, jr-. has left town
for Washington. where she will remain until
Monday next. with regard 10 the entertainment
which she is organizing for the benefit Of the Lisa
Day Nursery, in West 10Th street, and which Is to
take place at the Plaza on the evening OF Thurs
day. March o. it sill take the form of songs from
well known operas and of old ballads, at the close
Of each OF which there will be tabeau illustrat-
ing the melody and in which a number Of well
known members OF che fashionable set Will figure
J. Montgomery Strong has left New York for
China, Japan and the Philippines. going by way OF
San Francisco. He will be absent until the fall
Mrs. Philip NJ. Lydig gave a small dinner last
night at her house in East 52d street.
Mrs. Maturin Livingston will give dinner this
evening at her house I'm East 69th street.
The Nursery and Childs Hospital Sewing Class
will have its second meeting this morning at the
home OF Mrs. William NJ. Kiugsland No. 1925
Fifth
Miss I.eary's Bellevue Hospital Sewing and Knit
ting Class met yesterday at her home in Fifth
avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Pauding Fosdick. who were mar
ried a few days ago, at Palm Beach, Fla
Mrs Fosdick was Miss Ratheryne Yoakum, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin T. Yoakum.
Mr and Mrs. Henry s. Redmond will return to
town to-day from Miami, where they spent few
weeks
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scribner returned to town
yesterday from the South.
Mr. and Mrs. George Grant Mason have arrived
in town from Tuxedo and are at the Holland
House.
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Quite aside from its manifold bearings on the
installation of the new President yesterday 5
storm was notable. In the ordinary winter
say between the end OF November and the open
ing OF ApriI-snowfalls heavy enough 20 block
ade the railroads are recorded in the East nearly
dozen times. Such visitatons have been re-
markedly rare In the last three months. In
fact there has been only one storm at all COM
parable with this since the first of last Decem-
Der. and the second rather the more for
midable. Perhaps the latest disturbance was a
dying spasm OF an expiring season, but its ap-
pearance, even IN so treacherous a month as
March. was curious sequel TO a singularly mild
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-05

many things for the welfare of the Servian
nation cave an account of the status of women
in Sqryia which made their lot appear enviable
beside that in some other better known coun-
tries and which spoke much for the standard
of chivalry and culture which Servla has malh-
talned, amid great difficulties and discourage
ments ever since the years of her imperial
greatness under Dushan and Lazar. Thus 1t IS
interesting to be reminded, since Horace Mann
did not until 1852 establish equal education for
women with men, at Antioch College, that IN
Servia equal education for the sexes was uni
versaIly established in 1850, and that now IN
that small remnant of real Servia there are
no fewer than ten colleges in which women re-
ceive the baccaaureate degree and are thus quail
flied TO enter the university. Also there are
numerous colleges Of pedagogy, Of commerce.
of agriculture and what not, open to women on
equal terms with men.
Nor is it. says the princess, in vain that
women pursue such courses of study In Servia
all the professions excepting that of the law
are freely open TO them, and so are practically
all places in the public service. Women are en-
ployed by the governmentein nearly all capaci-
ties, even as civil engineers. IN which latter
calling. however. they are reserved exclusively
for office work. Nor are they forbidden 10
marry while they are thus employed excepting
that If they wish TO remain in the service they
must marry somebody who also is i'll 1t. In
fact. with all their high instruction in the
sciences and professions. domesticity is by no
means lost sight Of but in all the girls high
schools there are obligatory courses in practical
housekeeping. MOreover-thOugh this may in
spire the pity or the scorn Of the more militant
suffragettes- periodical organ of the ma
tlonaI Women's Federation bears the significant
title of THE Home Woman" With this 1t is
not surprising TO be reminded that the primary
duty of every man in Servia, seduously i'm
pressed upon him in his youth, is TO protect.
maintain and cherish his wife and womenkind.
All of which suggests that the lot of the Servian
woman may. after all, be envied rather than
pitied by her sisters In larger and prouder
lands
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-05
USE AND ABUSE or THE cRooKEs TUBE.

USE AND ABUSE OF THE CROOkES TUBE.
In the country to which the credit for the dis
covery of y rays belongs the art of using them
without harm has not yet been fully learned
According 10 the Berlin correspondent Of THE
London Lancet" resident of Breslau who had
experimental extensively with photographic ap-
TaratIls recently developed on his fingers three
painful ulcers. and microscopic examination
having indicated that they malignant the
fingers were cut off Patient and surgeon be-
Iieve that the malady was induced by the use of
vacuum tubes.
Soon after R6ntgen had reported the curious
phenomenon which he had observed while study
ing the activities of these tubes 1t found
that the invisible radiation could be employed
advantag eOusly by physicians both for diagnosis
and cure but before long st WAS noticed that
certain unpleasant effects sometimes followed
p-otracted exposure 10 It's influence. Usually
nothing more than an affection resembling sun
burn resulted. but occasionally the irritation be
came more severe. Although rays have been
employed successfully IN overcoming small and
easily accessible cancers. they may apparently
promote the development of a disease of the
skin almost or quite identical with cancer Sew
eral cases of the kind are on record in the
United States, one of the most remarkable of
item being that of An employee of Mr.. Edison.
The West Orange inventor himself was convinced
that the faithful servant whose life was lost
after years of Y ray experiments was a victim
of cancer, produced and aggravated by the work
in which he had been engaged. Evidently an
aware that safeguards might have been adopted
TO protect his employe from injury Mr.. Edison
told the story by way of warning to the world.
Now, whether or not these were true cases Of
cancer certain it is that a number of methods
of protecting both an operator and a patient
from injury by Y rays have been devised, and
only few days ago a new one was described in
Nature" Various materials known to be
OPAQUE TO the radiation from a vacuum tube,
and they may be employed as shields, which are
perforated at a convenient point to permit the
uninterrupted passage of the remedial agent.
ANY one who uses the apparatus which was in
vented by Crookes, but the value of which was
enhanced by R0ntgens revelations, and who
fails TO employ some one of these defensive ex-
Incidents betrays a singular ignorance. He also
wrongs distinguished men of science by bringing
their labor into undeserved disrepute
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-05
WILL OF MRs. ABBEY |. EDDY.

Chicago. March 4.-The will OF the late Mrs
Abbey l.. Eddy which disposes of an estate valued
at $4,000 was probated to-day. With the excep-
ton OF $500, the entire estate goes to Spencer F.
Eddy her son. and Catherine f. Beveridge wife of
Senator Beveridge, her daughter. Mrs. Beverdge
also gets the residence Michigan avenue Della
s...Ffeid. a sister. is appointed executrix
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Iesu7lork 1ailp Gribn1rs
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1909

Thss newspaper IS oarned and published by
The Tribune Association. Ee1c York corpora
sSon; Office and principal place OF business.
Tribune Building. No. I54 Nassau street. Netc
York; Ogden Mills. president; James II. Bar
fstf secretary end treasurer The address o.
> the officers is the Office Of This newspaper.
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Not a ship has had a scratch" said President
Roosevelt with pardonable exultation. in his let
ter of congratulation to Admiral Sperry. That
IS a splendid record for the active navy. But
what of the pitiful. neglected wreck of the Maine
AT Havana? Is it 10 be forgotten?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-05
CHANGE OF DATE.
From The Brooklyn Citizen.

From me Brooklyn b1tlzeN
To-day's weather conditions in Washington will
add fresh vigor 70 the demand OF those who have
insisted that the Presidential inauguration day
should he changed from March to other
month in which mild weather could be counted
on We haze advocated a change because ii is
not fair TO the people Of this time that the
change OF administration they have decreed by
the November election should be postponed four
months in the case of the executive and thirteen
months in the Of the Legislative departments
respectively
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-05

So the Public Service Commission has not yet
reported upon the 1O-cent fare to Coney Island
because 1t does not yet know whether or not a
lower fare would be profitable. Can 1t be that
the commission has never heard Of the Hon.
Bird S Coer?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-05

It will be pious undertaking to mark suitably
the graves of the American sailors of the War
OF 1872 who were buried in Devonshire. in Old
England Though their bones lie In what was
to them at the time a hostile land, there is no
filter soil to be the sepulchre Of naval heroes
than that which nurtured Drake and Grenvil
and their followers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-05

The japanese parliament ON Wednesday
adopted suhvention measure for the remu-
neration Of Japanese vessels plying to ports in
all parts of The world. on the same day the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-05

Press dispatches report that lit was learned
lin London on Wednesday that Servia had WIFI
drawn her demand for territorial compehsd-
ton" Readers of The Tribune learned IT three
days before, when they read in our columns d
specisl cable dispatch from Paris corre-
enon6ant making known with accuracy every
,tar, of the Balkan settlement in advance OF
such information in any other paper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-05

Apparently the forests OF the White and APP
palachian mountains are not to be saved if Con-
gress can help 1t.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-05
JAPANESE PRINCESS BEARS SON.

Toxic March Princess Takeda. the eldest
daughter of the Emperor OF Japan. gave birth -
son late this afternoon.