The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-03-20
HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS.
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It is a self-evident truth that clean
illness is essential to health. It il
necessary 10 be clean in order to be
healthy. It Is necessary to be healthy
to be happy. Therefore, the greatest
effort should be made to secure and
maintain that state or condition called
health. Life is interviewer with
health. Solomon says: ga man win
give all he has for his life" Let us
then imagine what we should give for
health, which is virtually life. We
cannot put too high a value on health,
the most precious possession. Let US
consider cleanliness in its relation to
health.
Cleanliness needs no defense; it
speaks for itself. We are well aware
of the fact that a clean mind is a
healthy mind, clean body is healthy
body, a clean home is a healthy one,
etcetera. In order to fully appreciate
cleanliness let us consider briefly the
opposite condition. Bible students
viii remember that those persons who
had in ancient times that most loath-
some disease, leprosy, cried: "Uneleanl
Uncleani" when approached by other
persons. Evidence is not wanting to
prove beyond the shadow of a doubt
that filth breeds disease. Filth, like
vice, is a monster of so frightful mien
as to be hated needs but to be seen.
1t is said that those race varieties
have achieved most who loved the
bath. Water is a great cleaning agent
as many a housewife will agree.
Since the alimentary canal or CASTRO
intestinal tract is the chief source of
disease it seems logical that we should
make especially great efforts to keep
it clean. The mouth, being the port
Of entry to the alimentary canal and
hiding within its labyrinth the teeth,
demands first consideration. Nature
suggests It. The nose, that faithful
sentinel, situated upon an eminence
like a double barreled gun or German
Howitzer is eternslly on guard watch
ing over the less sensible mouth. It
reminds me of a mother faithful who
tenderly keeps vigil less the babe puts
fire or other poison into its mouth. The
nose then helps Us keep clean by its
function of detecting a foul smelling,
unclean enemy via the sense Of smell.
The eye situated higher than its less
sensitive neighbor, the nose, and hav-
ing greater range, is also a valuable
aid to the dangerous and dependent
mouth in the battle for cleanliness
and health aptly called the battle Of
life. To clean the mouth means virtu-
ally CLEAN TEETH, and there is the
rub. Bad teeth, deeayed teeth, are
responsible for much suffering, disease
and death.
Notwithstanding the watchful wait
ing Of the eyes and nose much that is
unelean scapes detection (being in
visible and odOrless) and enters the
human economy by way Of the mouth.
Micro-organisms, called germs, mi
crobes and bacteria that feed upon de-
caying teeth colonize upon them, null
tiply themselves by millions daily and
get into the circulation or swallowed
with the food manifest their presence
in various portions of the body as GER
tain inhammations, called by the name
Of the organ attacked. The afore-
said germs prey upon dead matter in
or out of the body. They love filth
and they 60 where they are expected.
If an organ is weak they attack it.
If q person is unelean they attack
him. They seek the unclean places
and persons as well as those who eat
too much and those who eat improper
food.
From the above brief and ineom-
plete introduction it is readily seen
that to prolong life cleanliness is re-
quired. If health is lost it must be
regained by the same principle,
CLEANLINESS, but that is another
story.