The National tribune., 1911-03-30

fonso has become real King, and
while he lives there will be no republic
in Spain. At least. that is the opinion
of Mr.. Irwin Leslie Gordon, who has
contributed to the March Review of
Reviews a very interesting article on
this young ruler.
"A RS DRUMMoND, formerly Mrs.
IV Marshall Field, Jr., may find her
$4,000 worth of jewels after
all. A Clew has been discovered which
the detectives are carefully following
up. If she does recover them, it is
pretty safe to say that Mrs. Drummond
will lock her stateroom door in the fu-
ture.
AZ RS. GERTRUDE ATHERTON
M does not approve of what she
calls our mental women. The
modern woman she considers far too
militant and bloodless, and a new race
of men is necessary to cope with her
Mrs. Atherton tells us that if she had
her life to live over again she should go
in for curl papers. rather than literary
papers.
TT has been proved by an Austrian
expert, to his own satisfaction at
least, that ''only children" are
much more apt to be troubled with
nervous ailments and are more restless
and maynard than those who have
brothers and sisters. The excessive
care which the one little ewe-lamb"
receives is the principal reason given
for this. Undoubtedly the majority of
only children are made delicate by cod
ding, but thai is not the worst Of il.
A child brought up without brothers
and sisters can hardly escape being not
only very selfish, often with entire UNI
consciousness on his or her part, but
poorly fitted in many ways to meet
life's battles. And then, when that only
child marries, what n tragedy for the
mother. especially If it happens to be
a SON. One would think that the real
ization that in losing her one, either by
death or marriage, she lost all would
make any woman long for a family of
at least two or three children. How
much better would it be for childless
women or those with only a single
child to adopt one of satisfactory par
and, instead of spending so
much time in playing bridge whist, to
interest themselves in that most fasci-
mating and absorbing of occupations
watching the development of the baby
mind and soul into responsible,
thinking human being.
DR. MAURICE H. RICHARDSON.
the Weti-KnOWn surgeon, InlflhS
it quite possible that in the
course of time, and at no very distant
day at that, the blind may be made to-
see and the deaf to hear Even a poor,
old, WORKOUT heart, which has pumped
itself almost into eternal silence, will
be given new life. Cancer, DR.. Rich
ardson says, can almost always be cured
if the patient applies to medical aid
early enough, but the trouble with this
dread disease is that the tendency with
those so afflicted is always to conceal
rather than make known its existence.
He warns ali men addicted to the
smoking of a clay pipe that therein
cancer turks, and that cigaret smoking
is not free from this danger. All these
wonderful things which the doctors
promise to do for us are tremendously
encouraging, certainly: but, somehow,
a day hardly passes without one hear
ing or reading of a frightful new dis
ease appearing here and there, which
fact does dim the vision of the perfect
physical beings we are TO be in the fu-
ture, and makes us somewhat skeptical
when We read such accounts as that
furnished by DR.. Richardson.