Show A RACE OF TOOTHLESS MEN coming generations will vill tiara have to ivin sti alto by artificial Ire aos there is reason to apprehend that unless some cataclysm occurs to arrest the progress prepress pre press of civilization our descendants ants will be as toothless as eu king of cyprus described by the historian pliny as reduced to masticate his food with a structure of solid bone in lieu of teeth this at any rate in the opinion of the new I 1 york tribune is the inference to be deducted from the statistics recently published by order of the british parliament li demonstrating the alarmingly small number of of cases of in any anyway way sound dentition amonia the people of children attending the london public schools there were 0 only ly who biad sound teeth while during a period of three months recruits were rejected bythe by the medical department part ment of the army for purely dental reasons of course part of this state of affairs is due to L uc I 1 ct t of the digestion and of the teeth alip asa ves a 21 fact demonstrated by the statement that all the girls who c entered domestic service ri from the london public schools last year tile sixtus sixths had never even heard of such a thin thing as a toothbrush an ahser assertion tion that lias has led tl the ie educational authorities to institute in many of the metropolitan schools school what is now known as the toothbrush drill decay of teeth has always attended the advance of civilization and each barbaric invasion has been followed by a recovery of sound t teeth ceth in the old world under the circumstances it might be worth while to consider whether the repeal of the geary law and the opening up of the united states to a pacific invasion on the part 0 of f the chinese might not go far to improve the american jaw which according to medical experts is in an immeasurably worse condition than that of the english a fact probably duo due to our superior civilization |