Hungry Teeth.
Thi.Tir arc ju*t a> easily starved as the stomach, .'-aid a lecturer the other night. The fact i^ that you and your fatker& have from generation to generation been industrious>ly your teeth. In one way it is a ble- in<^ to have been born of poor parent'-. What food the poor give their children is of a\arirty that goes to make .shong bone-, and teeth. It is the outside of all the giains of all cereal food that contains tho carbonate and phosphate of lime and traces of other earthy Falts which nourish the bony tissue"} and build the frame up. If we do not furnish to the teeth of the young 1 that pabulum they icquire, they cannot possibly be built uj). It U the oufcjside of corn, oat*, wheat, barley and the like, or the bran, =jo called, that we <-ift away and give to the swine, that the teeth actually lequire for theii pioper nomi~.hment. The wisdom of man has proved his tolly, shown in every succeeding crenoration of teeth, which become nioio and more fragile and weak.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)
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183Hungry Teeth. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)
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