The National tribune., 1909-12-16
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, the sale of intoxicating liquors, h
: knows that it is a great deterrent. ant
, he believes it is just as good for Wash
Iington as it is for any place else, anC
he proposes to make Washington pro
hibition town if it is possible to do so.
Miss Flora Wilson, daughter OF
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, ha.
finally and entirely given up society
After having spent years in cultivatins
her voice, which is light colorature
soprano, Miss Wilson has definitely de-
cided to take up concert touring ca
reer. She began the last of October on
a tour which will include Iowa, her old
home; Illinois, Missouri. Wisconsin,
Minnesota and each of the States on
west to and including California. She
will then return thru the South. She
will have assisting her the brilliant
young violinist. Karl Llefn, who trav-
eled with Madame Calve last season.
Miss Wilson was very much liked as
the hostess for her father in the first
years that he was Secretary of Agricul-
ture, but something very suddenly
soured her on Washington society, and
she left Washington almost i:nmediate-
ly, and has never since been counted
among Washington's hostesses.
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The great fight that the world is car
rying on against tuberculosis is being
won, according te- Chief StatiStician
Cressy L. Wilbur, of the Division of
Vital Statistics of the Census Bureau.
Mr.. Wilbur says that it is probable that
the great attention that has been given
to this disease already has begun to
have its effect upon the mortality, and
the continued declination in the death
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| In all registration States the death
from tuberculosis has shown a decided
| decrease except in Colorado, Rhode
Island and Vermont.
A new danger has arisen to attack
children. 1t certainly does seem as tho
from the cradle to the grave the stom-
ach is the seat of greatest danger. We
are now almost afraid to put cream in
coffee because of the bacteria that is
liable to make a raid on our interior
department at most any old time. 1t
has long been known that cocoanut
candy, cocoanut pies, cocoanut pudding
or anything else that has prepared
cocoanut in it, is mighty nearly rank
poison to the stomach, but it perhaps
is not known that cocoanut when taken
from the shell deteriorates more rapid
ly than fish, If that is possible, and that
in hot weather cOcoanut will be rankly
poison within few hours after the
opening of the cocoanut shell. There
is not any doubt at all that a great
many children suffer with bowel trou-
BILE as the result of being permitted to
eat not only the nasty, cheap cocoanut
candy, but often the better kind of
candy, and all because their parents
either do not know or don't exercise
supervision over the kind of stuff their
children are pernitted to gobble UP.
Not only is the cocOanut poison, but all
the other nuts deteriorate very rapidly
after being taken from the shell, and
great many of them are rank poison
before the she'll is broken. The pea
nut is the most common dainty for
the children of the city, and it is cheap.
Only penny's worth of peanuts will
give any child an hour of solid satis-
faction, but the peanut also deterior-
ates rapidly when once started, and
cheap candy makers use it in making
peanut candy.
Little Edyth Fox, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Rufus F. Fox, of this city,
died in terrible agony last week from
eating peanut brittle which was filled
with ptomaine poisoning from rotten
peanuts which the confectioners had
used in making the candy. Her little
sister, who also ate of the candy, was
also made very i'll, but is recovering.
1t would be a very wise thing for moth
ers to pay a little attention to the stuff
that their children spend their spare
pennies Oh.
Altho Mrs. Longworth, the mother of
Representative Iongworth, is a plain
American citizen, who never did as
sumo airs because of her wealth and
social position, the Society Jenkinses"
have suddenly taken to clubbing her
Madame Longworth." Presumably this
is because of the fact that her sons
wife is also Mrs. Longworth" 1t is
very un-American, and it cannot be be-
lieved that Mrs. Longworth, Sr., would
like anything of that kind.
Welfare Work i'm Bulgaria.
In the new Nation of Bulgaria, the |
latest to join the sisterhood of Euro
pean States, the Government is recog-
nizing the value of missionary methods |
by using them in the promotion of tenn |
perance. More than 20 years ago Fran |
ces E. Willard asked the wife of an
American Board missionary to take |
charge of organizing temperance socie- !
ties thruout European Turkey. and they i
were established in 16 different centers |
But the Neal Dow of the movement is |
the grand old man" of Sofia, DIR. Jas. |
F. Clarke, who has just completed SO |
years of service among the Bulgarians |
anu HOW mas the nearly cO-Operdtl0n OF |
the Minister of Education in carrying |
on his crusade against intemperance |
They have placed literature on the sub |
ject in the 5000 or more public schools, |
and also distributed it among the Ma |
tional clubs which have been started
under the new regime. Mr.. Clarke and
his daughter were recently granted an
audience with Queen Eleanora, who ex-
pressed great interest in this educa-
tional campaign. 1t was hoped that a
law in favor of local option could be
carried at the first session of the new
National Assembly. The Queen said:
II Is impossible to secure such law
at present, but patience will bring sue
cess and the desired result will be
gained"
MISS Clarke has a fiourishine kinder
garten IN the city. and when the Queen
made her first visit she was so delight
ed with tie exercises and with the work
done by the little folks that she asked
where in the city it would be desirable
to start another. This one has been
made possible only thru the generosity
of a Boston woman who is deeply in
terested in Bulgaria and believes in its
future. If thorOly leavened with Chris
tian schools and Institutions
White House Functions.
Under the personal direction of Mrs.
Taft, the arrangements for the social
season at the White House have prac-
ucaliy been completed and the program
shows number of innovations which
reflect the great interest and study