New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-21
CHEWING WELL CHEERS
On That Plank of Miss Carriers
Platform Activity Begins.
CHILDREN NEED ATTENTION
Few Mouths Found Not Requir-
ing Treatment in Inspection OF
Children's Aid School.

If you can't chew we'll you can't be cheer
full That is the newest plank in the plat
form of the Society Of Good Cheer, OF
which Miss Theora Carter Is president
Miss Carter, a picturesque, brown skinned.
blue eyed young woman. who halls from
Seattle, but who makes New York her
headquarters since she formed her society,
went over TO the Chdren's Aid Society's
school at No All West 3sth street, yester-
Cay. to open a campaign against deforned
mouths and bad teeth. With her went Dr.
George b. Palmer of No. East 4lst street,
whose profession is orthodontia, which
means the science OF fixing up deformed
mouths
There are $50 children in that school, ana
DIR. Palmer set out to examine every mouth
there, but when he had gone through
hundred or So he gave UP. exhausted, ana
said he would do the rest some other day.
out of the hundred mouths he found only
three that didn't need the dentist, and only
seven or eight that were not cases for
, orthodontia.
The examination was great fun for the
subjects of II. They had none of that FEAR
Of the dentist which better-to-do children
frequently show They crowded around ana
struggled for the honor OF being first IN
Dr. Palmer's chair.
Those in the background opened their
mouths at him I'm mute appeal not to De
left out OF the examination. And when Dr.
Palmer after propping a childs mouth
open with his fingers, would forget and
turn around with his fingers still In the
mouth. TO talk TO Mrs. Carter, does any
or, cbTId ynurunurpd2
Not at all They would sit like little
statues, proud TO be the centre OF so many
eyes
It was pitIful to see how many OF the
little Jaws were crooked. That was the
chief trouble The upper and lower teeth
didn't come together properly Sometimes
instead of Just shutting down over the
lower teeth. the upper ones shut inside
them; sometimes they projected far out In
front. In many cases the roof uf the mouth
would be so narrow that there would be no
room for the tongue TO fit snugly behind
the upper teeth. where 1t ought to be; IL
would drop down behind the lower ones.
Time and again DIR. Palmer pointed out
how teeth were trying to come In and there
was no space for them between the teeth
on either side.
'The only thing TO do with these Mario"
upper Jaws" he said, lis 10 spread the
teeth It is done with contrivance OF
wire. II that isn't done sooner or later
the child will become affected here" and
he patted the forehead OF the pretty little
Italian girl he was examining then.
Observe" he added, these depressions
above the mouth, on either side OF the
nose. That means lack OF development OF
the bones OF the head. But IL we strsighten
these teeth-it sometimes takes several
years but It's worth it-then the upper jaw
grows wider, and all the bones Of the head
get gradually into place."
One small boy was told to go TO Bellevue.
because he had a badly rotted tooth that
looked as If It was going to ulcerate right
away. but all the others will be treated at
the clinic Miss Carter and DR.. Palmer
mean 10 start.
Tonight they will be at the Newsboys
Home Club. DR.. Palmer will examine the
newsies' teeth and Miss Carter is going 10
give them toothbrush apiece. Miss Car
ter began this work last year in Chicago.
where she gave fund Of 5000 that II
might be carried on.