New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-24
WAR HALTS GEM EXPORTS
BuIgars' Victories ASCribed TO
"Ninety-Year Milk" Diet.
WANTS CENSOR RESTORED
Playwright Says Stage Is De.
teriorating-Latin Returns 70
Favor in French Schools.
[From rhe TrIbune corre.popa.rt

From The Tribune Correspondent
Paris, Nov. 15.-One Of the conss.
quences Of the Balkan/war has been To "a.
duce the export trade I'm diamonds from
Antwerp, thus affecting the diamond cur.
ting industry of Paris. The Bulgarian
market for precious stones is very large
as young girls in Bulgaria like 10 carry
their dowry on their backs in the sham
Of glittering Jewels Their demand is
mostly supplied by Antwerp merchants
The successes. of the Bulgarians have
served to direct attention once more 10
the "ninety-year milk" which is said BY
French medical men to be the secret Of
Bulgarian longevity and Of the physical
proves that King Ferdinands victorious
army has shown.
This milk, which Is also known BY
youghourt," Is often prescribed in France
for the relief OF intestinal disorders and
for building UP the system generally.
MA ia youghourt" is the Bulgarian M.
tional beverage, and is drunk almost ex.
cIusively by the hardy peasants who hay,
fought 30 we'll against Turkey. II 10 ordl-
nary sweet milk diluted into a state Of
sourness by the mixture Of native
"youghourt" herbs, which are said 70 CON-
tain bacteria that swiftly destroys any
harmful gems with which they como "A
contact
Classics Gain Adherents.
AS the result Of an inquiry Instituted
among the lycees-the secondary schools
OF France-4t is proved beyond doubt that
the study Of Latin Is returning TO favor,
The purely commercial OF modern educa-
ton has been proved and found wanting,
and tho curious thing Is that this move
n1ent Is purely spontaneous, and proceeds
not from the schoolmasters but from the
parents, who are, IN the main, business
men. shopkeepers and engineers. They
have recognized that for a French citizen
AZ least an education which is not based
upon what IS, after ali. the mother tongue
Of the Latin races Is built upon sand. IN
school after school commercial classes
have been suppressed in favor OF classes
in which the humanities are taught. Thus
The Lyeee Lykanal which In the year 1879
had on. class in which Latin was taught
aesins; two In which f. was not, seeS
this year the ratio exactly reversed. Tho
Lycee Janson de Sally counted two years
ago 10 pupils on the classical S against
torty-six on the commercial eide. TINS
year The figures are AZ and thIrty-eighi.
Thus the classics have gained twenty
four adherents, while the modern SIDE mas
scored loss Of eight.
Greek. too, is sharing what Is nothing
less than e complete rehabilitation OF the
classics. The number Of pupils processing
Greek at the I.ycee Condorcet has WITHIN
n few years risen from twenty-tnTee 70
s,rhtv. vet the French father has repu-
t,tion for long-headedness and Is not al
ali likely TO pay for useless luxury.
a Word from Alfred capus.
"Greet liberty is certain 10 become
license. and license for all means slavery
for some" save Alfred Capus, the emil.
nent playwright advocating restoration OF
+hs censorship in France. II II not many
wears since the French theatre freed iJsel'
from the yoke Of the censor, and ALREADY
are anxious for the oppoI'
tunity once more TO hug their chains. NJ
Capus speaks with no uncertain voice
when he says: The censorship must %
restored. because its disadvantage, whleh
| do not deny, are pothins 10 those OF ths
freedom we now enjoy. Besides the GER
sorship at It's worst never stiled real tall
ant. Under the new libertarian resime
and SANDER, and what IN my
opinion, is fer worse, vulsarity, tread .hs
boards unashamed. II the censorship u1u
not always suppress obscenity ana per
sonal attack II saw 10 Il, ~ least tnA.
they were seasoned by the saving SAT- OF
wit"
A LYONS designer named Marino Chs'
sin had TO undergo an operation ror APP
pendicitis After the an@sthetio mao Oee0
adn,inl stored the patient was, ACCORDING
the medical ritual. washed thrice VIVA
soap. with ether and with nethylatea
spirits When on the point OF operauns
the surgeon noticed small sore not far
from the SPOT where his inctsior had 70
be made. He called for the platinum
needle, as uncauterzed the pimple misn'
have infected the wound. Unfortunately,
all trace Of the methylated spirits mao
not been removed by the congresses Hsa
for that purpose and the incsndescen'
needle set the patients body on FIRE BE-
fore the flames could be sxtinguished sew
eral Of the vital organs were burned 70
cinder.