Women and their Teeth.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 215, 13 August 1887, Page 5

Women and their Teeth .

I am reminded of a conversation I had A on the street corner lately with my friend, the dentist. " Considering how gicto an attraction to a woman pretty teeth are, and how fatal to her beauty defective teeth are," he said, " you would naturally suppose that women were very anxious to take careof their teeth. Well, if you think that you are the worst-fooled man in the world. They would rather have a saucer of ice-cream or go to a matinee than to have a lOdol. solid gold filling in a front tooth which is on the point of destruction. To have a sweet breath is no consideration to them. The shop-girl will save up her scanty earnings for months to get a feather for her hat, or a pair of high-heeled gaiters, but not to have her teeth put in order. When, now and then, one of them applies to a dentist, she generally seeks out some practitioner who plugs the cavity with tissue paper, and veneers ib with gold, but whose charges are less. When, as a matter of course, she loses one or two front teeth she runs back to her tooth - carpenter and insists on having every tooth in her head extracted, so that she can present a fine appearance with a full upper and lower pet of artificial teeth. I don't like to pay these things about the girls, but what I have told you is the naked truth. My advice to young men about to fall in love is the same as it would be to a man about to buy a< horse — look the animal in themoutk'