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GOOD HEALTH 



I have a queer-looking string of teeth in my attic. 

 Once these teeth were growing in the mouth of a heathen 

 man in Micronesia, but his enemy caught him and killed 

 him, pulled out every one of his teeth, and threaded 

 them on a string. I suppose this enemy 

 knew that when teeth are not in the mouth 

 they will last for ages and ages, and prob- 

 ably he wanted his children and grand- 

 children to believe that once upon a time 

 he had been strong enough to kill his foe. 

 If the man had lived until now, his teeth 

 would have been ruined long ago, and it 

 would have been the microbes that did 

 it, for they can destroy the teeth in any 

 . 6 man's mouth; but when teeth are clean 

 and dry, threaded on a string, and packed 

 away in the attic, no microbe touches 

 them. 



This teaches us a great lesson: the 

 cleaner we keep our teeth the longer they 

 will last. Microbes go wherever there is 

 a, nerve ; 6, bone ; an y f ooc [ anc j moisture, and the longer 



c, enamel . 



the food stays in one spot the more the 

 microbes will gather just there. They will enter any 

 crack and work their way deeper and deeper toward 

 the nerves in the pulp. When they reach far enough 

 we suffer and have to go to the dentist. 



TEETH 



