The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-01-28

No. 1 (the Senior group) met for the
purpose of planning sleigh ride.
Only an approximate date was set
because of the unsettled weather.
The Girl Scouts are organized in
the form of clubs. No girl need be-
long to all the clubs-just those she
is interested in. There are a num-
Der of clubs and among them are the
hiking, music, dancing, card and ar.
club. Miss Eich will take charge of
| the club work.
Miss Bye is in charge of the regu-
lar Scout meetings of Troop No. L,
held every Tuesday night.
Troop No. is also included in
the clubs. Miss Sundae has charge
of the regular Scout work in this
troop.
Grades
Caroline Wesloff has enrolled in
the Third Grade.
Leslie Walker was sent to the
University hospital for an operation
for Empyema. When Miss Shaffer
saw him last week he was doing well.
Lucille Freeman, Josephine Hoff-
man and Olive Benson, Sixth graders,
received 100 every day during the
six weeks and for their final exam in
spelling.
The following had perfect attend
ance during the six weeks in the
Third grade: Helen Deziel, Ellen
Deziel, Warren Rose, Lyle Parks,
Celeste Edinger, and Norbert jaeger.
In the Fourth Grade: Wayne Luedt-
Ike, Evelyn Taber, and Helen Volk-
man.
Health Hints-Care of the Teeth
By the end of the second year the
baby should have his twenty milk
teeth complete and they should serve
him until the sixth or seventh year,
when the first tooth of the permanent
set will appear. Therefore the care
of the first teeth is matter of great
importance to the child's health.
The examination of many thousand
school children in this and other
countries shows that nearly all have
dental defects. These include decay
ed teeth, of which it is said the av-
erage school child has from three to
five; protruding teeth; irregular and
crowded teeth; malformation of the
teeth and gums; and general unclean-
Illness and unsightliness. The result
of these defects is unreasonable, the
most immediate being the loss of
some part of the power to chew.
The human body is built up by the
food materials which it is able to di-
gest, absorb, and incorporate into
the tissues. The first process which
the food undergoes in digestion is
the cutting and grinding which is
given it by the teeth; by this process
the food is so subdivided that it is
readily swallowed and and more cas-
lily and completely mixed with the
various digestive juices, the first of
which is the saliva of the mouth. If
the teeth are too few or otherwise un-
fit for doing the work of chewing,
or if they are so irregular that the
grinding surfaces do not meet prop
erly, some of the food will not be
properly cut, and other digestive or
gans will have to do the neglected
work of the mouth. Children WHO
have lost their teeth cannot bite and
chew anything but the softest foods
and are likely to limit their diet un-
duly, and such dietary defciencie,
may have a serious effect upon the
whole life of the child.
1t is believed that the reflex dis
turbances due to the pain of aching
teeth or sore gums cause serious ner-
vous trouble.
Many forms of illness result from
the presence among the roots of de-
caying teeth of tiny pus pockets
which continually discharge their
contents into the germs of disease,
including those of tuberculosis and
diptheria, find Judgment in dental ca
vities and in irregularities in the
teeth, and the neglect of proper clean
illness leads to possibilities of attacks
of such illnesses.
The medical examination of chill
dren with bad teeth shows also that
they are often affected with ade-
noids, are below the average in stat
ure and are very apt to be backward
in school.
The care of the teeth is thus not
merely matter of beauty but is of
profound Importance in the whole ex-
istence of the child