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House & Garden 
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Now told by millions, in many tongues 
Careful people of some fifty na¬ 
tions have found a new way to 
clean teeth. It means prettier 
teeth, whiter, safer teeth, and users 
delight to tell their friends. 
Leading dentists everywhere 
also urge its use. The result is 
that millions now enjoy benefits 
which every home should know. 
It combats film 
This method combats the film on 
teeth—those viscous coats you 
feel. Film is what makes teeth 
dingy. It clings to teeth, enters 
crevices and stays. It absorbs 
stains, then forms cloudy coats. 
Tartar is based on film. 
Film also holds food substance 
which ferments and forms acids. 
It holds the acids in contact with 
the teeth to cause decay. Germs 
breed by millions in it. They, 
with tartar, are the chief cause of 
pyorrhea. 
Thus most tooth troubles are 
now traced to film. Old brushing 
methods could not 
effectively combat it. 
So tooth troubles 
were constantly in¬ 
creasing, and beau¬ 
tiful teeth were seen 
less often than now. 
Two new methods 
Able authorities proved these 
methods effective. Then dentists 
everywhere began to advise their 
use. A new-type tooth paste was 
created, based on modern research. 
Those two great film combatants 
were embodied in it. 
The name of that tooth paste is 
Pepsodent. In five years it has 
come into world-wide adoption, 
largely through dental advice. 
Other factors 
Pepsodent has other factors 
quite as important. It multiplies 
the alkalinity of the saliva. That 
is there to neutralize mouth acids, 
the cause of tooth decay. 
It multiplies the starch digest- 
ant in the saliva. That is there to 
digest starch deposits on teeth 
which may otherwise ferment and 
form acids. 
Those are Nature’s great tooth- 
protecting agents. 
Pepsodent twice daily 
gives them manifold 
effect. These com¬ 
bined results are 
bringing about a new 
era in teeth cleaning. 
Delightful effects 
Avoid Harmful Grit 
Pepsodent curdles the film and 
removes it without harmful scour¬ 
ing. Its polishing agent is far 
softer than enamel. Never use a 
film combatant which contains 
harsh grit. 
Dental science, after long re¬ 
search, found two ways to fight 
film. One acts to curdle film, one 
to remove it, and without any 
harmful scouring. 
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results which no careful person 
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Send the coupon for a 10-Day 
Tube. Note how clean the teeth feel 
after using. Mark the absence of 
the viscous film. See how teeth 
whiten as the film-coats disappear. 
The test will be a revelation. 
Cut out the coupon now. 
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A scientific film combatant which 
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BOOK ROOMS of INDIVIDUALITY 
(Continued from page 126) 
But all houses do not call for an 
Elizabethan library and in a small coun¬ 
try house a room of dark walls and 
sturdy furniture would be totally out 
of place. 
I have always thought a library done 
entirely in white would be unusually 
interesting. Walls, woodwork, floor and 
furniture painted white and at the win¬ 
dows heavy red and white striped silk 
curtains over white gauze glass curtains 
picoted in red. Think what a back¬ 
ground it would all make for the 
books! And as the majority of books 
seem to be bound in red, the curtains 
would be an answering note. The chair 
seats should be done in Chinese blue 
brocade, shot with yellow, and the sofa 
in a blue and yellow stripe. A Chinese 
rug in tawny yellow with blue figures 
would carry out the color scheme and 
bring another note of interest. 
BOOK-LINED WALLS 
The acme of luxury is a library with 
the four walls lined with books. If this 
is not feasible, built-in shelves with 
arched tops placed at intervals create 
a pleasing, architectural effect and give 
the room an air of formality and per¬ 
manence. Built-in shelves, however, 
are somewhat of a luxury and it 
is quite possible to have an attractive 
library without them. The logical place 
for bookcases is on either side of the 
fireplace. As the fireplace and its sur¬ 
rounding furniture is the main group in 
the room, the books should be near at 
hand. Besides, the fireplace and the 
overmantel become more important 
from a decorative standpoint when 
framed by rows of books. In the same 
manner a long window is more effective 
bordered on either side with long, nar¬ 
row bookcases! Study the room care¬ 
fully and plan the bookshelves before 
anything else. If they are not of the 
built-in variety, they should be so ar¬ 
ranged as to create a sense of balance 
and composition, for if well placed and 
distinctive in design they will instantly 
establish the atmosphere of the room. 
NECESSARY LIGHTING 
The lighting of the library is most 
important. Avoid a chandelier and 
have plenty of base plugs for lamps. 
The side fixtures should be so arranged 
as to throw plenty of light on the 
books. It is also a good plan to have 
a large electric torch near at hand for 
searching for books in remote corners. 
Any number of delightful effects can 
be obtained by different arrangements 
of books. One of the most restful is to 
arrange them according to size, starting 
with the tall books and sloping gradu¬ 
ally to the shortest ones and then back 
to the high ones. This creates a rhyth¬ 
mic motion both unusual and pleasing. 
The collector arranges his books ac¬ 
cording to subject, the dilettante ac¬ 
cording to author and the decorator ac¬ 
cording to color. The first two systems 
mean a confused collection of colors 
and sizes, interesting but restless. It is 
when one arranges books according to 
the many tones of the bindings that un¬ 
usual effects result. A good plan is to 
keep the dark heavy books near the 
floor letting the bindings gradually get 
lighter towards the top—a gradual 
shading from dark to light. Or one might 
have a brilliant mosaic effect with 
bright blues, yellows and whites to¬ 
gether, dotting here and there with a 
note of red or gold. The arrangement 
of books is one of the most delightful 
pastimes in the world. Not only can 
one gauge much of the character and 
inclination of an individual from the 
books in a house but also something 
from their arrangement. A mind neat 
and precise likes rows of books matched 
for size while one with a more inquir¬ 
ing, brilliant turn demands a daring 
display of color. The dullest of all ar¬ 
rangements is the one according to 
subject. 
LIBRARIES TOR HOBBIES 
The library is an intimate room. 
Here should be apparent the owner’s 
most cherished hobbies. I once knew a 
ship collector who had a niche made 
in each bookcase to hold a prized ship 
model. Needless to say most of the 
volumes dealt with the lore of the sea. 
Around the walls were prints and en¬ 
gravings of ships and old ship’s lanterns 
on the walls provided all the light. 
Another man with a passion for pi¬ 
rates planned his whole library around 
a miniature pirate group modeled by 
Dwight Franklin which he had set into 
the space above the fireplace. This room 
was living room, library and study 
combined. Plaster walls and dark 
woodwork, the vivid interest of the 
pirate group, some colorful prints of 
pirates and ships all toned in with the 
rich bindings of the books, for the man 
was a collector, and the deep crimson 
of the damask curtains. Here the rug 
was plain taupe, a thick chenille, soft 
under foot and sound absorbing. All the 
variety and interest in this room were 
provided by the books and the pirates. 
Libraries are more interesting when, 
in addition to the books, some taste 
or hobby of the owner is apparent in 
the decoration. This is the room for 
personal photographs, autographed let¬ 
ters, old prints, cherished bibelots, that 
other members of the family do not 
appreciate. These things, provided they 
are not too numerous and, attractively 
arranged, along with the books give a 
library its atmosphere and make it a 
spot in which to linger long after the 
other living rooms in the house have 
been deserted. 
