Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-12

II MPAftC1AlJ, MOnLeVlQeO.-1ne ap-
palling news has come to US that
some of the dentists in Montevideo
Il are arranging for the installation
Of radios in their anterooms. It
is easy to sympathize with the added
sorrows of the unfortunate person await
ing with dismal forebodtngs the extrac-
ton of some aching molar or bicuSpid.
While nervouSly anticipating the ordeal,
he is just as likely as not to hear that
his bank has been closed, or that his
horse came in last in the third race,
or that If he had used the tooth polish
Of Prof. Bienvenido for the last 81 years
he would never have needed to get q
tooth extracted. A prelude of syncopa-
ticn, the melancholy melodies Of Chopin
or Handel would certainly add to the
miserieS of the patient, but perhaps the
playing of some lively and familiar air
from light opera, with spirited &C
compartment of drums and cymbals,
might make him oblivious Of his pains
for the moment and give the dentist a
favorable opportunity for drawing the
offending grinder.
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Flowers Often
To blame for Tragedies.
LIE Matin, Paris.-In these days the
flowers have been found to blame for
many tragedies. These guilty blossoms
are generally water lilies and edelweiss.
The water lilies are those SO tempting
blossoms floating upon the water, al
ways little farther from the boat or
from the shore than they appear to be.
The edelweiss, too, always grows little
beyond the reach of the hand. upon the
edge of an abrupt precipice or upon the
remoter side Of a fathomleSS crevasse.
What is the tragic result? ExcursioniStS
wish to pluck the water lilies, fall into
the flood and are drowned. Mountain
climbers strive to gather edelweiss and
fall to their death in some abyss. The
flowers are alone responsible for these
tragedies, for have they not lured their
victims to their fate-or at least sug-
guested that certain risks are part of
the pleasure of mentioning?
y
Whoever Looks Sour
Will Be Thrown Out"
Berliner Tageblatt. "Wer mics
macht, wird rausgeworfen whoever
looks sour, will be thrown out!r A plac-
ard with these words f1ndS itself in one
OF the exhibition palaces Of the Leipz
Fair. And such, whether so emphati-
cally spoken or more obscurely limited.
Is to be the warning Of the Leipzig
Harvest Festival
Such, In fine, Is the self-protective
slogan OF the manufacturers. who have
come to Leipzig to display their wares
and who hope for session OF optl-
mistic inspection and a great series OF
orders which will set all their wheels
turning briskly again. For skepticism,
laments and timidity In trade are TO
be tolerated no longer, If the manufac-
turing interests can prevent 1t. TheSe
are the countersigns of better days, ana
it behooves each visitor, no matter with
what Herculean effort, to exert hlmseI1
in a way that will make the conceptions
Of true ideal triumph over the more
sordid visions of contemporary reality.
So only optimistic visions and express
Sions are to be tolerated at the falr, IN
the hope Of creating an atmosphere In
which business will thrive again.
All persons looking or talking pessl-
mistically will be shown the gate.
The economic situation of the doc
tors in Vienna has been wildly por-
trayed by one OF them, DR.. Ottoman
Piskorsch, speaking for the Executive
Committee of the Medical Association
He says: THE plight Of Viennese phySl-
clans. with but few exceptions, Is de-
plorable one. The increased NUMBER
and efficiency Of hospitals and clinics
deprive the private practitioner OF many
patients who would oCnerwise come 10
him, and these same institutions receive
as a matter of course all persons In
jured or incapacitated while In the
streets or factories. Despite the fact
Of idleness, with no diminution OF e.