| Show proper proper mastication implies that the food be thoroughly chewed and mixed with the fluids of the mouth before being swallowed and that these functions be performed without haste most people eat as though they were ignorant of the fact that the stomach has no teeth or means of en salivating the food with which they fill it the stomach is a most faithful servitor and makes a long and earnest struggle to preserve its owner from tha inevitable consequences of imposing upon it functions which nature intended should be performed by the teeth ami the salivary glands ant like the indulgences of a faithful mother or any other belf sacrificing friend its services cervices vices are only recognized when it is usable to respond to demands for them mot people as they approach middle life lose many of their back teeth which are the principal implements of mastication ant they fail to bear in mind that they should take more time at their meals in order to properly prepare their food for swallowing they should remember that nature makes no allowance for their infirmities in this respect but will hold them to a strict account for any neglect to observe the rulea of health washington star |
