The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-01-23

/ ton /! is ndispensably essential TO the
continuance Of health, not 20 speak Of the
comfort of cleanliness. Ii is not uncom>
mon to observe person unable TO use one
side Of the mouth, on account OF decay
ell and sensitive tooth, that he lacks the
courage to have removed, rather prefer
ring TO submit 10 years OF excrucallng
pain, and the destruction Of the other
teeth.
The air that enters the lungs should be
pure, and, as it passes chiefly through the
mouth, it cannot be wholesome unless the
mouth and teeth are in a healthy condi~
ton. Ii the teeth De crusted with tartar,
the breath is necessarily offensive, and the
putrId aud infectious e1t1uvia conveyed 10
the lungs, often bring on the most disas-
trous consequences. The general health
is seriously affected, and pulmonary con-
sumption sometimes supervenes, as we'll
as other diseases, which end in DEATH
FAST EATING.
Foreign travellers have ridiculed the
American practice Of eating, or rather de-
vouring food, as if the object were TO see
how great quantity could be despatched
in the shortest given time. This, though
a universal is by no means a national
practice. Every where the working man,
to whom time is literally money, must
make the most OF it he can, and, as the
evil consequences Of fast eating are not
Immediately apparent, al! considerations
of bodily health are sacrificed 10 time
The rich only, or those whose avocatons
! 10 not require haste, can afford the time TO
eat dinner as it should be eaten.
In beading houses, where man mpSl
take his meals as swine eateth, lest there
should be nothing left for hin; on jour,
ney, where he will be left himself, unless
he use despatch in steamboats,, where he
mus! joste for the first place, and eat
against time, if he would not be put up
with the leavings, there may be some e&-
cuse for such unseemly haste, --necessiy
has no law, But, on ordinary occasions,
there is no need whatever 10 gu p haIds
by the IadIefuI, or TO bolt solids in cubes
Of an inch aud half Even as mater
of policy, it is highly injudicous. Ia this,
as IN most other cases, there is no time
gained BY being ina hurry,
Suppose you nave forgotten, in the hur'
ry Of gorg ng, and IN your im.atienca Il
get back 10 your employment, that your
Teeth were made for n specific use
and have neglected 10 put them % it, " bat
nheo2 Way, you have a despera'e Oh )Iic
IN consequence, especially if your food bas
been vegetable, PERHAPS a diafrl GA, and
you lose ten times as many inmates as il
would have cost you 10 dIne like gen.Ie
man, a Chrs; an and a rational creature
Perhaps, too, you lose the nights rest,
and the price Of dose ofrhubarb or castor
oil
If This practice become habitunl. your
teeth aud stomach, not having the exercise
intended for them by the Creator, who
certainly understood their wants better
then you do, lose tbeir tone and vou be-
come dyspeptic, and suf.r from tootbache
and twenty other Ills insepc able from H.
regulated feeding. You are always sick
and in pain, unable, or il able, unf, to
work, und thus YOU more than lose time
the very advantage for which you have
sacrificed pleasure, comtorl and decen'
cy.
Lord Chesterfield, whose opinions on
matters OF fashion are final, says hat fas
eating is presumptvc proof OF poverty, in
asmuch as no man to whom tine is mol
indispensable to provide for his immediate
necessities will be guilty OF such vu]gQ,
folly. | do mol say that but never SET
a man feed voraciouSly without suspectina
tha! it is long since he has had meal, anG
that he is ia doubt when aud how he shall
get another.
IRREGULAR OF THE TEETH.
The milk teeth are seldom subject tc
any rreg ulari'y there are, however, in'
stances Of their coming in such on unnat-
raj position Is do an injury to The checks
or longue-an injury which extractor
obviate:. The same irregulariiy may
operate as an impeachment to the speech
or as a cause OF arrangement in The Or
der Of the second sci of teeth
With proper attention paid to the re
nova Of the first set OF teeth, the regular
itv ofrhe second may be anticipated anc
this attention must be kept up, until tn,
fist set are wholly supplanled by the per
mancnt leeth--an event, which, as befor'
mentioned, does not complete itself unit
the child has attained his twelfth or four
lceulh year.