HEARTH AND HOME

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 58, 19 April 1912, Page 14

HEARTH AND HOME

'I " Hear or«ryth»og tbat •peaks tbe language of ymr Htutk and HoBM."-DickaM. I ,1 __ ■ —-J

The prevalence of dental decay, dur- j ing recent years is a fact of general j knowledge. Fow propor sets or good, strong teeth aro to bo found -even among children. The reason for (-this is ascribed by eminent dental aulAotfities to the use of white bread, which, for about two generations now, has biM>n the national loaf. As a Lotion l -dentist puts it, "The white loaf has been the dentist's best friend." Tlie most valuable parts of tlie wheat berry— the bone-building taken away in tho course of manufacturing white flour. » • • There is scarcely anything a woman cannot do with a hairpin. She uses it to pick her teeth, button shoos, clean finger-nails, get the dirt out of bedstead cracks, fasten up stray curls, clean her husband's pipe, scratch her head, run into cakes to sco if they are done, and about a million other things that the poor deluded men know nothing about. » * 3 What a woman is like, who can say? She is like a rich dish Of ven'son or fish, That cries from the table, Come, eat mc I, But she'll plague you, and vex you, Distract and perplex you, False-hearted, deceiving, Unsettlod and changing. ! What, then, do you think she is like?' Like the sand I Like a rock I Like a wheel! Like a clock!