closing each meal with a bit of crisp crust, toast or cracker, or with a raw apple, 

 the juice of an orange, or with a draught of water, to leave the teeth as clean as 

 possible. 



(2.) Brush the teeth always at night, and advisedly in the morning too, with 

 some precipitated chalk; quite the cheapest and most reliable tooth-powder. To 

 increase its effect, draw the brush once or twice across a cake of " Monkey Brand " 

 soap before dipping it into the chalk. 



SALIVA IS STICKY; 



it needs a powder to remove it, as it clings to the teeth. Pastes and liquid denti- 

 frices are mostly expensive and useless, for they do not remove this sticky secretion, 

 which glues food particles to the teeth. 



(3.) Care of the teeth must include their periodical inspection by a competent 

 dentist ; this is one of the best investments against ill-health, and must never be 

 neglected. 



DECAY OR CARIES OF THE TEETH. X 

 CEMENT OH ROOTOFTEETTH A 



FORMULA or Txe 



PERMANENT TEETH 



(ONE SIDE). 



2 1 2 : 



2 1 2 C 



INCISORS. CANINE. PREMOU4R8. TRUE 



MO1AR& 



BOTH 

 SIDES 



CLEANLINESS IN CLOTHING. 



It may seem superfluous to refer to this particular form of cleanliness, especially 

 as it just now happens to be the fashion to wear short dresses out-of-doors, so that 

 the disgusting sight of a long skirt trailing in the dust or mud is rare. Will an 

 enumeration of the constituents of road or street dust suffice to make our women 

 turn a deaf ear to Dame Fashion when next she decrees long skirts to be " the 

 mode''? Particles of hair, wool, cotton from animal and our own clothes; specks 

 of blood, pus, and infectious discharge from cuts, wounds, and sores; expectoration 

 from the mouths of consumptives or from others full of putrid teeth ; manure and 

 the droppings of birds and animals. Have I quoted horrors enough for once? 



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