EVEN TO THE DENTIST.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 13, 23 December 1911, Page 8

EVEN TO THE DENTIST.

All the world knows how up-to-date is everything on board the huco ocean-going lineTS, but among' the very latest ideas F"J, n "° ', orc « 1 says an English writer) la that of having a dental parlour, whero inhering passengers mar havo their aching molars looked to or extracted. To many tho innovation will in the future prove a great boon, for the soa air lias a very considerable ertect oil the nerves of the teeth. I nlike other innovations on these vessels, however, the dental parlour notion did not originate in tho brains or tho steamship managers,, but to a J ar,s,an dentist nmst he given the credit. Ho had not been doing a very wouderful business for some time, and went a sea CTip, intending io have a, liolidnv while business was dull. While on board the steamer he conceived the idea of a ship's denti-j, and on reluming ho at once booked a Miifp'on (lie samp vossel, (lie I,;t hayoie. belonging to tho ' French Trans- : Atlantic Company. ; Yo'ingly- "Did you ever notice that the < matrimjmia] process is liko making a i '•all: 'l ou i»o to adore, you ring the belle, ' aiur you give your name to the maid." ' Cynicus— e« and then you're laken in." 1 Weddingf—Shoivcr Boiiqun's for bride j 1 and bridesmaids. Only the Choicest • of H Flowers •used. Specially packed, and «>nt I * to'*oj'part of, tho .Dominion. Misa I j Murrny, 36 Vfillii Street (Floriit to His p ticellsiLcy Lord liSnftoni- 11

NEW ZEALAND TRADUCED. ■Tho "Anti-SnlVrayo lieview'' for October possesses within it- pages an article that I surely is unique (says a writer in an | linglish paper). It is failed "Woman I .Suffrage in Xew Zealand: A. Commentary I by a Woman D-jctor," and purports to Im> written }jy ;i woman doctor who, Ihc "Anfi-SulTragi' lieview" authorities state, I is still in New Zealand (though it is a curious fact that there i> no "W.G." shown oil the N'ew Zealand register us J practising), ami it vilifies in (luce | columns of the "lieview," not only ' "W.tfellow doctors in Now Zealand, but Xew Zealand women in general, lios- • pjtal nurses anil doelors in particular, ' Xew Zealand's ediuaiional jy-tein, birtljrate. infant mortality-rate, marriage-late, ■ her towns, mortality, houio-lil'e, her wives, etc., etc., ending up by declaring; "Xew Zealand lias, nevertheless, much • to recommend it, but I, for one, will do nothing to induce the Old Country to adopt woman suffrage under (he idea that it has produced in Xew Zealand a family , paradise." n Xo one but an enemy of votes for women I would s'jggc.-t anything so idiotic as that t: tho giving of tiiein ought to create a f paradise. 3 So grossly damaging, however, were sev- . oral of tho statements made—and, apr parently, made with authority, since the writer states herself to lie n doctor—that they coll for swift demolition, and this lias been very effectively performed by t two doctors, whose experience all Xew i Zealanders respect, and whose knowledge - of Xew Zealand la vs and ideals must ' be held to bo at lea.st as reliable as 5 "W.G.'s," viz.. Dr. W. A. Chappie, of • Wellington, now M.T. for Stirling in the - House of Commons; and Captain Dawson, lata of Auckland, and now of tho lloyal Army Medical Corps. : , Dr. Chappie is an enthusiastic supporter r of votes for women, and said at once, on - having his attention drawn to the amaz- - ing statements made by "A Womau 1 Doctor":— "In so far as these claim to l:c facts, '• they are mostly wrong—in so far as lliey 5 claim to b3 arguments, they arc mainly foolish. What stuff'.the enemies of reform are driven to use to stop Ihe on-flowing 1 Niagara of eommon-rmse and justice!" "Family life, in X'ew Zealand is not I happy!'' ii one of "A Woman Doctor's" contentious to which Dr. Chappie replies: "As a general statement peculiar lo Xew i Zealand, every responsible Xew Zen lander, • capable of forming an opinion, would declare this to he false. Are the exceptions due to the fact that a wife or daughter 1 calls at a polling booth onco in three year.- on her way to a tliop, and casts a vote.-" j "Marriage," savs "W.G.,"! "is not so 1 frequent hero as it should be in a young country; tho small birth-rate causes continual anxiety, and incessant appeal for - increase in population by emigration from Great Britain; the high death-rate amongst children i* a disgrace lo the . women of Xew Zealand." % The death-rate among children is 02 per I 'Mil in X'ew Zealand, and is the lowest iiMhe world. It. is 108 in Kugland. "11l the opinion of many schoolmasters . and doctors, and some soldiers. I have - I ". C J'' fa . TS "W.G.," "who hail from the Old Country, and, therefore, are able to . make a comparison, tho proportion of _ nervom children is very large, pa.rticu- .. larly among the boys. The standard of £ education is low; the public school code . sets a high ideal, but one that most of ' tho children fall far short of, except in j large centres.". This, fortunately, both doctors can answer froiii full experience. Dr. Chappie says: "T practised for nearly twenty years in Xew Zealand, and took the-anthropometric, statistics of 1000 • schoolboys in Wellington, taking all the ° bays in tho schools of the,most crowded J parts of the town. Comparative examJ illation of availablo statistics showed that 3 they were the best all-ronnd developed r I: 0 ?.* 'he world. As a member of a university Council in Xew Zealand for > many years, and with a. knowledge -of J the educational systems of many countries, - I have no hesitation in declaring that in ; standard and thoroughness, general edu--1 cation in X'ew Zealand can compare favourably with that of any. oountry in the world." , Consulted also oiithis question, Captain Dawson, speaking not only as a military medical officer,, but froni> his experience also as a medical examiner for insurance in Xew Zealand, at once said that, taking tho English Army recruit, .and also , i tho young'officer as a type, the average l young Xc'V Zeafonder is physically and ; mentally his superior. During the South . African War, which inflicted a very severe , strain on the nervous faculties', of ali , concerned, tho incidence of nervous disoa-o. among t.ho Xew Zealand . troops was exceptionally low.