The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-26
SHAW DECLINES
 AN INVITATION To Be the Guest of FrohmaA
 and Others WOULD'T COME ANY WAY Appetite for Irony Does Not Go so far as to Mako Him Want to See the Statue of Liberty-~Spares
 America.
WOULB'T COME ANY WAY
BY HERBERT TEMPLE.

feasted in New York, told me today why he did not accept Mr. Frohman's invita- tion to be his guest on the other side of the Atlantic together with MT. J. M. Bar rie, MT. Granville Barker and MT. John Galsworthy.
 "Now, how could any of us go?'' he said MT. Frohman opens his repertoire theatre here in February. Galsworthy, Barker, Barrie and I have new plays ready for simultaneous production then. As each play takes at least three weeks to rehearse, we are all hard at work at the Duke of York's just now. We want MT. Frohman here much worse than he wants us in New York"
 Besides, why should anyone. who Is in London, go to America? You can un- derstand anyone, who is in London. They all make a rush to do so. I might change my attitude If the stream were setting the other way. and it were the dream of every Londoner the moment he had saved any money to so to America. As 1t is. am in the right place, and the Americans are in the wrong place; at least they seem to think 80, so why should move? Of course, the Americans may be mistaken. l notice that they never know anything about their own country. They are al- ways astounded If you tell them what is going on there.
 For instance. they are ignorant of the fact that liberty does not exist there. could be arrested the moment landed on charge of melting the women of Amer lea to immortality by my good looks. could be imprisoned for suggesting re- form of the marriage laws or questioning the truth of the story about Elisha and the bears.
 How can you call America a free coun- try, when you know of the poverty of the masses and the frightful condition of child labor in the cotton mills of Car olina. which are worse than the mills of Manchester were 100 years ago2 We round remedy and the Americans know 1t, but they won't apply 1t, because they don't want to be free; they want to make money, and they don't care how they do 1t. l do not want to see the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. Even my appetite for irony does not go so far as that.
 To go to America is to go back q cen tury in civilization. The manner of liv- ing in America today Is simply that of two centuries ago complicated with cer- tain development of industrial brigan- .dage peculiar to the twentieth century. l was born in the seventeenth century; l have lived in the seventeenth and eigh- teenth centuries. and I have lived in the nineteenth century as we'll. I am an lrishman. and when I was born my father lived in Ireland in the same way as Dean Swift did. Really, I might say he went further back than that. His life was the sort of life described in Pepys' Diary. So you see I am -Stree centuries old
 Now, if 1t was a question of going to heaven, I might think differently and want to go, If they would guarantee me plenty of work to do; but I don't want to go back anywhere; I want to go for ward.
 There Is another good reason why I should not go to America. If do, ev- erything will stop. People will cease to be interested in politics, commerce, art or anything else. Nicaragua may shoot all the Americans 1t likes then: the shots will not be heard in the din of silly talk about Bernard Shaw should be Q public nuisance-an inter- ruption-a rod stuck into the national machinery. For Americas sake spared her by staying at home"
 There has just been added to the Royal College of Surgeons in Iincoln's Inn Fields. an odontological museum, which should prove of incalculable service to the professors of dentistry and of the greatest possible interest to thousands of others. The collection Is the most ex- tensivs and valuable ever brought to- gether to illustrate the anatomy, evolu- ton and pathology of the teeth It com prises upward of 5000 specimens. and is the outcome of a movement set on foot 65 years ago by the leading dentists of England, who were dissatisfied with the status and conditions of their profession, and whose efforts secured the foundation of the Chronological society.
 The specimens collected by that society increased by leaps and bounds until the collection assumed a national import ance, and steps were taken to transfer it to a home where 1t might be consulted with convenience by all medical men and others specially interested. The compre- hensiveness of the collection is indicated by the fact that the cases arranged for inspection comprise speci- mems prepared by John Hunter prior to the publication of his text book, 'On the National History of the Human Teeth" in 1771. Next to these are cases containing specimens Illustrating the an- atomy of the jaws and mechanism of mas ticaHon, the eruption of the teeth and the dentition of the various races of man. kind, these last indicating in a striking manner how the teeth of savage tribes suffer from coarseness of food, and trav- elers of the desert from the effect of sand storms.
 A large section is devoted to the com parative dental pathology in which ab- normality in the size, shape, arrange ment. eruption and implantation of the teeth is remarkably Illustrated In other cases are shown malformations and the development of diseases of the jaws and teeth, tumors and molars in every stage of decay. An important section illus trates dentures, artificial teeth and dental Instruments, curious feature being the fact that in the earlier stages of the in- troducticn of artificial teeth. many of the teeth are seen to be affected by decay. There Is also a comparative anatomy sec ton, from the elephant to the monkey.
 Altogether it is a most interesting col- ter that 1t will take at least year to properly classify and catalog the whole of the exhibits.
 The Duchess of Marlborough has taken c villa at San Raphael and with her son, Lord Iver Spencer Churchill she will pass the greater part of the winter there. De- partsres are taking place almost every day now for the Riviera, and Mrs. Ar thur Nilsson and Miss Muriel Wilson are leaving Tranby Croft for the villa Mary land where they will stay until the spring.
 WANTED-Six reliable and