4017 British Journal of Dental Science No. 808. LONDON, JANUARY 1, 1902. VOL. XLV. "FAR FROM THE TEMPTING TUBE." By CHARLES Fox, L.D.S. "Posterity may be shot like a bullet through a tube, by atmospheric pressure from Winchester to Newcastle; that is a fine result to have among our hopes; but the slow oldfashioned way of getting from one end of our country to the other is the better thing to have in the memory. The tube journey can never lend much to picture and narrative, it is as barren as an exclamatory, Oh! Whereas the happy outside passenger seated on the box from the dawn to the gloaming gathered enough stories of English life, enough of English labour in town and country, enough aspects of earth and sky, to make episodes for a modern Odyssey."-From "Felix Holt," by George Eliot. To-day is a non-dental day, one of those occasional interludes in the dull routine of a molar-mender, that trick old Father Time of his dues. These interludes are usually devoted to the garden where the fruit trees invite the pruning knife, or the potatoe patch needs its autumnal dressing of something redolent of stables. But now the north-east wind |