The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-01-26
neglect of the teeth of children and Of

neglect of the teeth of children and OF
adults"
Prof. Lewis Nj. ceiman has writ ea
on admirable book on 1.-The Iygeine
Of the Child" He says that o. twenty
million school children at least eigh-
cen millions are afflicted with dis
eases of the teeth. DR.. lessen calls
decay of the teeth "the peoples dis
ease. There is no disease so common.
None that curses the people of this
country as extensively as that does.
Decayed teeth causes indigestion,
mental backwardness and acute in
fictitious diseases. Trouble with the
teeth affects the heart, and the ear
in short to neglect the teeth of the
child is to neglect the entire child,
and commit crime against that
child's chances in life.
lily. If you had collection of diamonds
in your mouth you would take good
care of them, probably. Why neglect
the teeth, every one of which is worth
Ito you, to your health, your comfort
and your success, more than a dozen
diamonds. Some foolish people look
forward to artificial teeth as someth-
ling they can always have" Dentists
have shown that artificial teeth do on
lily one tenth the work of natural teeth.
In one year this country of ours,
among the few who try to go into the
army, rejected one thousand because
their teeth were so bad. A decaying
tooth, unpleasant as it may seem, is
nothing but a rotting bone in your
mouth. You cannot have good health,
you cannot be free from poison of the
blood and of the tissues while you
walk about with rotting bone matter
inside your mouth, every hour of the
day, taking decay into your stomoch.
A decaying tooth, neglected mouth
Is not a joke, it is a menace to, your
health and disgrace to the indivil-
ual.
1t is not necessary to have bad teeth
il you put them in order and keep
them clean you will rot have trouble.
1t is said that twenty millions of dol
lars rightly spent would put in order
the teeth of all the school children of
the country. The city of New York
half bankrupt, is about to spend be-
tween fifteen and sixty millions on a
court house for the judging of Grimm
ais, when one million dollar build
ing would do. How much better it
would be to spend one million dollars
on court house, and one million to
put the teeth of school children in or
der and save forty eight millions
Once your teeth are in order you can
keep them in order, for, remember
this-clean teeth do not decay.
+. A good tooth brush used intelligent
| ly and regularly, the right kind of
tooth paste or tooth powder, used reg
Iularly, that is all you need to keep
in order the set of tools In your
mouth, worth more to you than any
thing that you can possibly buy If
| If a woman has a sewing machine,
II a man has little automobile or
any kind of machinery, the first
Thought is 81 must keep it in order"
lin your mouth you have the machin-
cry upon which digestion depends
health depends and your usefulness to
1.-THE community; your success in life
Iyour physical comfort. The average
Imam in his whole life has not given as
much thought to that set Of machinery
in his mouth as he would give - g
second hand $240 automobile If hi
Happens to buy one.
What are you; What have you excep