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New Zealand Tablet, 13 October 1910, Page 1669

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The Care of the Teeth At the recent annual meeting of the British Medical Association an important discussion took place on the effect on health of defective teeth. Professor Sim Wallace pointed out that care in selecting food would prevent disease of the teeth, and he gave this menu as one which did not produce diseases of the teeth: —Breakfast. Fish, bacon, toast and butter, coffee and tea. Lunch. —Meat or poultry, potatoes, salad, well-baked milk pudding, fresh fruits, and water. Supper. Rusks, toast or bread, rolls and butter, chicken or iish, water or milk and water, or tea and fresh fruit. They Will Do It We have many a time and oft drawn attention to the vagaries and malapropisms of the average newspaper reporter and correspondent when dealing with Catholic happenings. The following incident is not exactly in line with the class of cases to which we refer, but it is sufficiently near akin to be worth adding to the collection. ' One of our readers,' says the San Francisco Monitor, 'sends us this week a clipping from the Wenatchce, Washington, Daily News, in which two. news items are beautifully rendered as follows: —"St. Joe, Idaho, Juno 4. —Mr. Heston, agent at the St. Joe dock, lost his big white bulldog yesterday. •He was killed by a switch engine. Services were held in the Catholic church for the first time Sunday morning." Bishop Cleary Even the secular papers have been impressed with the felicity of„ Bishop Cleary's address on the occasion of his consecration; and the leading columns of Saturday's OUujo Daily Times contained the following appreciative notice: The words spoken by Dr. H. W. Cleary on the occasion of his ordination at the Enniscorthy Cathedral in Angus o last, as reported elsewhere in this issue, have more than justified the high anticipations we had already formed of the new Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland. " In one of the many addresses presented to him at the consecration service due tribute was paid to the abilities which have earned for him the bishopric —' abilities which marked him out nrst as an ardent student within the ivy-clad walls of St. Aidan's Academy, which developed during his residence in the House of Missions, and still farther resulted in a brilliant career in distant Ballarat.' The address proceeded: 'New Zealand is richer by your Lordship's election to her line of worthy Bishops, and Wexford is exalted in having another of her sons elected to episcopal dignity.' Bishop Cleary's reply to this eulogy and others not less complimentary was marked by all the felicities of language that fall readily from the lips of an eloquent and cultured priest. The effort was noteworthy, since it revealed so exactly the character of a man whose twenty-two years' voluntaryexile from his native soil had in no wise dimmed his love for the land of his birth — a love which, lying latent in the heart of every child of Ireland, was in his case quickened by the revived memories of the past. Bishop Cleary's staunch loyalty to the land of his adoption was plainly shown at the same time in his reference to himself as 'of the Greater Ireland afar off ' and to New Zealand as leading the way ' to some of the most beneficent reforms that have contributed to make the new and happier Ireland of to-day.' For although Bishop Cleary in his outlook upon life is first and foremost a Catholic and an Irishman, yet in no sense is he a narrow religionist or a bigoted Nationalist. This was made especially evident in his statesmanlike mention of the land legislation of the Dominion and the old-age pension scheme as ' headlines' which 'we on the outer rim of the earth have set for the rest of the world.' In his own poetical phrase, Bishop Cleary is being ' wafted to his # work' in the diocese of Auckland by ' a breeze of blessings and good wishes.' And it surely is not too much to expect that in his occupancywhich we trust will be lengthy his new See he may be surrounded by the same ' caressing kindness' which, following him Home from Dunedin, he recognised as accompanying him through Ireland, and which may be attributed largely to the power of an attractive personality operating upon ' loving Irish hearts.'