The National tribune., 1910-03-24

get along as well as they do. Evidently
this question weighed on the mind OF
Thomas A. Forsythe. of Boston, who,
believing that a proper attention paid
Ito the teeth when young will save the
adult from many of the ills of life, has
planned to give 100000 for the care
of the teeth of the public school chill
dren of his city. He proposes to make
it possible for every such girl and boy
to have his or her teeth thoroly looked
after free of charge until reaching the
age of 16. A part of this money Mr..
Forsythe intends shall be spent in build
ing thoroly up-todate dental estab-
lishment, manned by corps of the best
dentists in the State He has petitioned
the Legislature for the Incorporation of
his idea, which when granted, as it
surely will be, he will proceed at once
to put into execution. Nothing of the
kind exists in the country at the pres
ent time.
The Chicago hatpin is not to be cut
off at present, so it seems. The City
/ Council which was considering an ordi-
nance limiting the length of the pin TO
more than half an inch beyond the
crown of the hat, quailed before the
feminine storm which faced them, and
decided not to interfere. In the mean
While news comes from across the wa
ter that an unfortunate man in BruS-
ISeiS had one eye put out by the hatpin
| of woman standing near him in a
| street car, and that the court has
awarded him damages to the amount of
$4,000, part of which the car company
was obliged to pay Another hatpin
| story is that two women, one Jealous of
the other, rushed at each other the 9TH
| er day in Chicago, each with a long,
| deadly hatpin in hand, and after jab-
bing Viciously for a few moments but
| for nff,,K
making some rather bad scratches.
! Which doesn't look as if it were so ter
ribly deadly after all.
| The Roman Catholic clergy are lifting
up their voices all over the country in
| protest against race suicide, putting it
| at the very head of destructive evils
| While the country is full of reformers.
! they say, there is no particular atten-
/ ton paid to this greatest of all menaces
! TO our healthful prosperity and moral
advancement. History shows that the
/ proudest Nations OF the earth have per-
I ished from this cause, which will be
the fate. of America unless the people
| of the present day are aroused to a
sense of danger Who can say what
Shaksperes. Washingtons and Lincolns
are sacrificed to the modern prejudice
against maternity and paternity? Who,
indeed?
Lovely Helen of Troy hardly stirred
up bigger row than has an innocent
Syrian girl lately in the Republic of
san Domingo. She is a very remark
ably sweet-looking Syrian girl from
Mount Lebanon, and when the time
came around in February last to elect
queu.- of the yearly fete, which is a
sort of combination of the New Orleans
Mardi GraS and a Philadelphia Fourth
OF July, this Syrian beauty's name was
proposed by some one for that high
office. Then trouble began. and an
amount and quality of trouble almost
unbelievable. The cry that the Sy-
rian was not of Spanish blood, and
not native went up. and altho the
| scrap started in place called San Pc
! dro de Macoris, it soon spread to the
! Capital and other places, where every
| body promptly took sides. The army
became divided, the police force dis
rupted, the President wisely refusing to
join either faction, thereby incurring
the wrath -sof his Cabinet, all warmly
partisan, several dueIs were fought the
Minister of War and Navy ordered that
the Dominican Navy, consisting of one
boat, be Pechristened Amanda, the Sy-
rtan beautyS first name, several of the
| cabinet made proposals of marriage to
the young lady, and, in short, pande-
monium reigned. On the day when the
election was to take place over $4,000
votes were cast, and it was found that
the Syrian girl was elected Queen. Then
followed riots in several places, and
order was only restored by the Presi-
dent proposing that a certain lovely girl
Of Spanish blood and native born
should share the honors with the Sy-
rian. This was received with satisfac-
ton, and at the fete both girls presided.
Now trouble has broken out afresh over
the question as to which was really and
truly the Queen, and it is said there is
talk of starting a revolution in order to
make the Syrian bona-fde Queen of
| the island.