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14 orpeboea i PARENT DIRIGIBLE AND OFFSPRINOAN AIRSHIP LAUNCHING STEERABLE, CREWLBSS. MINIATURE AIRSHIPS CARRYING BOMBS WHICH CAN HE DROPPED ON ANY DESIRED SPOT. AIRSHIP LAUNCHES TINY CRAFT CARRYING BOMBS THAT ARE DROPPED BY WIRELESS. Illuatriled London Xewa According to Mr. Raymond Phillips, the aerial weapon of the future will take the form of a large "parent" dirigible carrying a number of smaller craft, somewhat as lifeboats are carried on a liner.

These small craft will be fitted with bomb chambers an1 wung on davits on each side of the large -essel. The parent ship will be maneuvered by her crew to a great height, ajid one of the mall craft, loaded with bombs, but not carrying a crew, will be dispatched as required and steered by wireless waves from the parent ship to a position as near the enemy's fortifications as possible. The bombs will then be released, a trap being opened by wireless. It will be possible to steer a small craft back to the parent ship, but even should one be destroyed its small cost would make the loss insignificant. The effective radius of action of these small bomb-dropping craft would be about three, miles, and they would weigh 0 to ino pounds each and carry about two bombs apiece The system of steering them would be operated by means of a swivel beam attached to the front of the air-hip, with two motors mounted on It.

FAVORITE SUMMER DRINK OF AMERICANS WAS KNOWN AS FAR BACK AS 1520. New York IHO put the Am In soda water? Few of those lined up before fVi mrhU rAiinln fttnn to Pdfo) meditate on the origin and history of the summer drinks. It Is taken for granted that chocolate Ire cream soda, at alt events, must have existed since a out the Lower 8ilurian. To be sure, there may be some who will be able to tell you (hat soda water in variety was a great feature of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and theie ma; even be an old New Yorker who can hark back to the late thirties and tell you tales of Old Ben. who dispensed fancy soda drinks at 55 Gold treet.

Few. however, realize that, far from beinK modern In Its origin, soda water is in point of actual fact a product of the early part of the sixteenth century-Not that Ice cream soda and the sundae were star featuresof, say. the Renaissance, but the principle of soda water was in use in Germany as early as It was the picturesque Paracelsus, a Gei-man chemist and physician, who aeems to hac been the first to have a speaking acquaintance with carbonic acid, which Is the essential constituent of soda water. Just how much Paracelsus developed the possibilities of soda water as a beverage Is a rather hazy point; unfortunately a Jealous band of druggists and chemists, so i umor runs, threw him down a hill and nipped the career of' the great German scientist In the bud. The ci.bonic acid idea took root, nevertheless One hundred ytars later Van Helmont.

a Belgian chemist, made further experiments and coined the word gas." the term that is now used to designate the carbon dioxide which puts the fizz in soda water. More than a hundred years later a French physician. Gabriel Vcnel. tried his hand at making drinkable mixtures of soda, muriatic acid and or-dlnary water. The idea crept into Eng land, and a few years before the Ameri-.

can Revolution Dr. Joseph Priestley, ot Leeds, made the first publicly acknowledged glass of drinkable soda water. According to fhe Pharmaceutical Era. which gives in a recent -issue the history of the development of the soda water Industry. Dr.

Priestley prepared his bever-aee by pouring between two goblets held In a layer of carbon dioxide on the top of a fermenting mash In a brewery vat. By this time Germany. Belgium. France and England had all played around the Idea of aoda water, yet by 1800 it was comparatively unknown. It remained for America to put behind the Idea the mo-' mentum of her Ingenuity and her enterprise make boda water "the great American drink." America saw the possibilities of soda water.

America has Invented and perfected the soda water fountain. America has been largely responsible for most of the appliances which have followed in the growth of the industry, the American public drank aoda water with its characteristic energy. and thus It has been possible for America to introduce the famous drink in all its bewildering variety to England and the continent, whence the Idea came. The manufacture or mineral waters upon correct chemical principles" was undertaken in America as early as 1804 war merely "charged water," but It was 'a great novelty in the days when lack of traveling facilities made the mineral springs remote for many. In 180J the -first establishment- was started In yjaw York City.

Thatcher's "American NewIMspen' describes the operation of these early plant a Xhe cisterns -were placed in the cellar of tfje Time 1 and the waters were convoyed lnt the bar in block-tin tubt-s, which pass up into mahogany pillars crowned with gilt urns and lettered with the names of th respective waters. The pillars with the.r urns stand a foot apart, and tht- mi'MU-one Is raised above the Silver stop cocks inserted Into the stile of the pillars give the hole much nestnes nJ richness of appearance." Evidently soda water in its initi.il stage was considered a bit de trop as a ladie-" drink, for we read that this progressive establishment "Intends to open fountains at the City Hail in the month of May. In a spacious room, fitted up and ornamented in handsome style and adapted to the accommodation of ladies as well as gentlemen." This, however, was plain mineral water. The honor of introducing fruit syrups and thus opening up the way for the present variety of summer beverages be-iongs to Philadelphia. To the discredit of our own great metropolis Is It recorded that it took the lde of syruped soda water six years to travel from the Quak- er City to New York.

Eugene Roussel. a Frenchman by birth. kept a perfumery shop in Philadelphia. He had one of the early soda water dispensers in his establishment, and the Idea came to him that an energetic lemonade made on a basis of charged water might be pleasant and a popular thing, especlal-'y If It were bottled up so that It could be carried home. The experiment wap tried, and with a very little Judicious advertising syruped soda became the rage in Philadelphia.

From all accounts the Philadelphia beverage was pure food soda water: there are records which show that the best loaf sugar and the most carefully prepared fruit juices were used, white of egg being added to clarify the syrup. Gotham's first popular soda water fountain dates from the early thirties, when "Old Ben" was Its star feature. Old Ben was a slave from North Carolina, who had obtained his freedom at his master's death and had come North to enter the employ of John Matthews, who at that time was experimenting successfully with the soda water Idea. The establishment was at 55 Gold street, and was tremendously popular. John Matthews was at that time busy in perfecting soda water apparatus, and his pressure gauge and safety cap for generators, still in use, were suggested by Old Ben's thumb.

At that stage soda water was made with a wooden generator, a gasometer and a pump. The gas passed from the generator Into the gasometer and into the fountain. Three volumes of the gasometer was the charge for the fountain. Old Ben's thumb applied to the cock was the signal. If this thumb was forced away by the pres- sure the fountain was charged, and from thls John Matthews developed his gauge and safety cap.

The sensation in the Boda water busl- ness. which by this time was rap'ldly growing, was furnished by a Massachusetts man. G. D. Dows.

In the early fifties. Mr. Dows is known as "the father of the modern soda fountain," and was the first to use marble in its construction, with silver American eagles, such as you will see on the stop cocks of the soda fountains in the country store to-day. Mr. Dows made a reDUtation i-i x-ia iM Liuiea oiaies wun ms "uowsi fountains." which sold for $225 each, and in 1867 he went to France, where he dls- Universale in Pari This was the for- ma Introduction of American soda water on the continent, and It made a tremen- dous sensation.

The report of the Amer- lean Commission of the United States TIIE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, SATURDAY, -SEPTEMBER 20, 1913 Senate records the fact that "he Dows oda was popular with the mass of the people, and even Kings and Emperors often partook of the delicious draught." Mr. Dows and his soda water received many medals, on the strength of which a large business was established in London. Thurlow Weed wrote to the New York Commercial concerning the advent of the new American drink, saying that "the approaches to the Dows fountains resemble Jong files of clerks after stamps at the New York postoffice." Ice-cream soda, however, arrived rather late. Just before the centennial year Robert M. Green, hung out the following alluring notice: SOMETHING Green's.

Ice Cream Soda. The Most Delicious Drink Drawn from R. M. Green's Block Tin-Lined Steel Fountain Entirely Free from Copper or Other PoUonoua Metallic Salts Lemon Oiange Vanilla Sheroet Pineapple Coffee Strawberry Chocolate Raspberry Cocoanut Ginger Blackberry Sarsaparilla Orgeat Nectar Hock Ten Cents a Glass. Try It and Tell Your Friends.

The Philadelphia Centennial added the final touch to the boom for soda water. Fifty thousand was paid for the fountain privileges of the exposition, an enormous sum for that time. Many remember the great soda fountain which was constructed of imported marble elaborately finished in silver. It was sev-tral stories hign and was a great attraction in itself as well as for the new-drinks which it dispensed. Within the last 15 years the industiy has niadf enormous strides, largely because of the invention of the so-called Iceless fountain, which substitutes a controlled drip of brine for the expensive Ice packing.

According to the I'nited States census the soda habit has acquired a tremendous grip. Over 475.nnn.um gallons of soda water are consumed In this country alone in a single year, approximately glasses, and about glasses per capita. This does not include the popular sundae or college ice. Fifty years ago the annual expenditure for soda water in the 1'nlted States amounted to but a. fw thou- dollars: to-day the expenditure Is about f5" K.lin.

There are more thm lno.mm mhUi fountains in the country. The Tha maceutical Era historian of the S'da water Industry waxes eloquent when he considers the vast scope of the business. We quote: facture. "Few realize the scope of the tries allied to that of foda manu Quarrying, metal working woodworking, silver plating, brasswo: king and plumbing, g'assmaklng and china baking. preserving and sirup making, wood iarv-Ing and leaded work.

edltle nut gathering in every clime and the culling of ra-e extracts and flavors from tem:" pcrate and torrid zones ail these and more are affiliat'-d with the sda watr industry and have to take their toll before the fliz of the fountain po'lMe in the pnxl'iction of even one glass of the gr'Jt AmM an "Great orchards ar- devoted exclusively to the of fruits for sirups and 1 reserved immen-e groves in Jamaica. Io-t" Rio. Hawaii and th-island of the aie given over to th' production of pineappb-. co i bananas and oth tropicar fruits. hug-dairy farm" with blue ribbon, blooded Jerseys and Guernseys prod'i'-e the milk and the cream, used in in concentrated form: thousands of of sugar, shiploads of nuts fr.

Brazil, lt-ily, Spain and 'alifornia. not to forget the modest pecan from Texa: preserved ginger from far Cathay, spices Tom Manila and Mandalay: vanilU from Mexico the entire productive world is drawn upon, not to make a Roman holiday, but to tempt the taste of the American matinee girl and the spria water habitue." NAILS. Life A nail Is a short riece of iron which a man uses to aim at while he is hammering his thumb. Nails come in various sizes. A tack is a baby nail which is fond of standing upon its head in the dark when you are turkey-trotting around your room In bare feet, trying In vain to locate an electric button.

An adult nail is two or three inches long and comes in boxes which are sent to you by express upon which you have to pay the charges, which have already been i-ollected by the express company at the other end. Not being able to find the hammer, you vainly endeavor to extract this nail and others of its kind from the box. both with and without prayer, until you finally succeed In wrenching the top off the box with superhuman strength while your wife looks on with superb disdain. Nails are also used to build houses, as sinkers on fish lines, and when applied internally to the feet, to promote and foster lockjaw. They come In vast quantities in hardware and department stores, but when you want Just one to drive into the bath- room wan aunng jour wires hang a razor strop on, you might as welt look for a needle In a haystack or square deal in a State Legislature.

MONEY IN FOXES. Providence Journal. The raising of foxes for their furs is becoming an industry of considerable 1m- portance. A shipment of 126 cu- foxes, estimated to be worth $100,000, or near- ly $800 apiece, recently arrived at Van- couver on a Canadian Pacific Railway steamer from Skagway, Alaska. They were purchased from white and Indian trappers ln Alaska and the Yukon Cana- dlan territory, and consist of red, black and silver-gray foxes.

One pair of black foxes in the lot was estimated to be worth $10,000 when fully grown. The foxes are being shipped east to the fox farms ln New Brunswick. Prince Edward Island and the Eastern States. Since the opening of the season It is reported that 219 live foxes, ranging from silver gray to cross and valued at $320000, have been from Kdmonton. alberta, to points in Eastern canaaa ano tne unuea Stat, Included in this lot were 10 voting w-rk na which wer to a New nun.

died after beina- sold for 12.500 each, -'ng to the Increased supply of the rare a v. a the pWco of these animals has decreased from 25 to 50 per cent TV 3te an Ancient Smrjtutp CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA AS EVIL IN ITS EFFECTS AS NEGRO SLAVERY. i Hartford Times. NOLAND boasts that a slave fas free the moment he seta foot on English territory. But In her largest dependency there exists a social system as evil In its effects as negro slavery.

It Us not applied by men of one race to those of another whom they regard as Inferior, but by men who consider themselves of the upper class to others of the same race whom the accident of birth has destined to an inferior social station. It Is an aristocracy of the worst form. There are 50.0u0,000 in the lower castes In India and of these belong to the pariahs or lowest class of all. a proportion fully equal to that of the negro slaves in the United States before the Civil War. Their condition is in some re6pecte worse than that of slaves.

These people are called "untouchables," because contact with one of them even with his shadow compels the high caste man to go through elaborate purllicatlon ceremonies. In some parts of'the South of India they are Bald with the land, as serfs were formerly In Russia, and their economic condition is virtually that of slavery, with no obligation on the landlord to provide for their needs in old age. They are everywhere restricted to the lowest and most menial forms of labor, and any attempt on their part to better their condition is prevented by force. They are not allowed to carry an umbrella or to wear anything but the scantiest clothing. They are not allowed to take water from the public wells, as their touch would be pollution.

On the occasion of a child having fallen Into a well no female was willing to rlk her life, and an "untouchable" who offered to descend the well was prevented because he would contaminate the water. Before a man of the higher could found the child drowned The children of tne untouchables are not permitted to sit on the same benches in school with thoi-e of the higher born. In consequence only one in "JiJ of them goes to school. They call themselves Hindoos, but are in it per mi ted to enter the sacred pre lectric Botoer Jfor Eollcr bate vr Vt 7 iii" i 7Ms 1 i SMALL MOTOR IS ATTACHED TO EACH SKATE AND OPERATOR CARRIES STORAGE BATTERY. Popular Strange Urates in 2Btg City ODD OCCUPATIONS THAT COULD NOT EXIST ELSEWHERE THAN IN CENTER OF VAST POPULATION.

(Sew Y.rk of New MONG the York City are many of an unusual nature, which could not exist elsewhere than in a center ter of vast population. Specialized occupations these are. which demand a huge population from which to draw their patronage. New York Is the city of specialized trades. Innumerable articles which In smaller cities could be but a by-product of some more general business find here a sufficient market to make their separate existence possible.

There is the sawdust man. for instance, who in New York Is a very Important doubtful than when the chimney special-business man The wholesale sawdust 1st is called in. dealer advertises all kinds of sawdust and requests that you will telephone your needs so that there may be an early delivery. ted Ited It used to be that any one who warn sawdust went to the Bawmlll and asked Tor as much as he wanted. There was ony one klnd of eawdugt ln the good old days and that was an unimportant prod- uct which anybody could have for the asking.

Now the sawdust wholesaler will tell you that sawdust is a very valu- able product, and that the sawdust busl- ness is offering greater opportunities every day. There are about 60 kinds of on the market, so says the sawdust expert. and all of them have their stated uses in the realm of trade, Mahogany sawdust is Just as aristo- cratic and elegant a product as mahog- any furniture. It Is useful for smoking not as tobacco Is an exploded In- justice to the cigar and cigarette manu- facturer. Mahogany sawdust Is emDloved because of the good, clear kind of work that it does in smoking hams, fish, All the way from the preparation of food to the polishing of precious metal ranges the usefulness of sawdust.

The hardwood dusts are used for polishing ln some Jewelers' and cheaper saw- dusts are used for polishing hsas valuable m.l.i vnrlr in r.v.i.., i lvi. Aa. ar.Ai.K luam tl a cushions, for the covering of floors and In th fnr Thee. v.r.i than to diacove, th. art chimneys smoke.

attend to. the bi. bulldlng-eltnerl -Ther are almost entirely devoted to solving the secrets of the domestic hearth. Busl- cincts of the temples or to hear the Veda read. In short, a more cruel, malign boycott was never carried on In any other part of the world.

In slavery there were kindly relations between the blacks and the decent masters, and a recognition of reciprocal duties, but In' the caste system there Is nothing of the sort. The chance to better one's condition, which Jefferson" called the "right to the pursuit of happiness," and Napoleon In. more sounding phrase, "the career open to talent," is absolutely denied these degraded creatures who live and die like the beasts of the field, help- less and hopeless, say that freedom England can hardly follows the English flag. The degraded condition of these people naturally aroused the pity of the best English missionaries. They taught them to read and Instructed them In simDle trades.

It was discovered that they were nulla am nmhla an.IU Li.l... wat 1 no kilt: 1 1 1 1 1 castes, though It had been supposed that they were the survivors of the aboriginal race and the others the descendants of the Aryan conquerors. Some of them learned trades, and, being employed by the English, began ito accumulate property. One of the untouchables opened a store in Bombay with the ironic sign. "No touchables served." It became evident, to the more Intelligent of the Brahmins that these people could be kept no longer In their "proper position." and that ther.

was growing up a nation inside of the nation. So they devised a ceremony by which the pariahs can be initiated Into a higher caste and have the right of coming to church and even of "wearing the sacred cord," drawing water from the village well, and being regarded as human beings. That a social regulation at least 14 centuries old. which has grown Into an institution with vested rights as solid as any In the world, should show signs of weakening. Is perhaps the best evidence that the twentieth century can give of the progress of Justice and freedom, which after all are much the same thing, in their effects at least- Mechanics.

Herald ness is plentiful, too. for nowadays ev- erybody who builds a new house in the ountry or suburbs of New York wants at least one open fire In It. and, strange to say, there are more new chimneys that smoke than there are new chimneys that don't smoke. So there you are -with an excellent opportunity for the smoking chimney doctor and all directly in the New Y'ork zone. In less closely populat- ed regions the new householder with a smoking chimney Is obliged to consult an architect, a mason or an oldest lnhabtt- ant usually with results much more In line with the chimney expert Is the man who devotes his life to defective hot-water pipes.

He calls himself a domestic engineer, but hastily asserts, on being interviewed, that he Isn't Intending any Interference with the Domestic Re- glneerlng ceases when the hot-water pipes are In perfect order and there are no general heating repairs to be made in the flat. He is a specialist ln these two lines of work, and he Is on tap for e.mer- gency service all the time, Useful In the world of business as well as that of the home Is the firm which takes 'care of floors. The householder or the wner of a large office building who hls noors kept in beautiful order without having to assign his su- pennvenueni. i. i the proper sort of cleaners are used and that the beauties of the wood are not ruined by neglect or overapplicatlon of the strong-arm method signs a contract crobea and curing inflammatory affec-with the floor scrubbing and oiling firm tlons.

to tak tne whole matter off his hands, TnU ls one mor 8tp towr Pacing th housekeeper's art on a basis with other up-to-date enterprises. Systemati- tin and specialisation are supposed to make for efficiency in housekeeping as elsewhere, and when the contracts have been signed with the floor-cleaning firm h. vaptmm-cleunlnir Arm and the window-cleaning nrm. another speciausea hniMn which finds much natronaa In th l.miVMir mv fe.M thit, fairlv -ood order 'at leW In reaard to yv- m.t.. IproMenW'ihftTnaV'Wciinedn.

io ooh front In the tore fronu lan industry Making over which has found so many patrons In New York that a number of firms have found It profitable to set aside all other forms of building and devote themselves wholly to helping New York "merchants improve the appearance of their establahmenta by putting a new face on the matter. All classes of merchants', from tha small dealer in the suburb "to the great dry goods firms" which do millions of dollars' worth of business In a year, indulge in the luxury of a new kind of front to their business homes every once In so often. The new-atore-front builder is also an architect, and his art demands all the taste, discretion and of appropriateness which are required for the erection of an entire new building, with perhaps a greater degree of ingenuity. In line with the new store-front-enterprises there are certain firms of architects which have made a reputation for their ability in the making over of house fronts in hues. tnat, wnll tne remodeled residences At perfectly Into their place in the city block, they at the same time are greatly improved in appearance and are given an originality of aspect which enables the occupants of the mansion and the friends of the family to recognize a residence without referring to the number on tne transom NeW York Is the great clearing house for experts of all kinds who are engaged In the detection of crime, and among these are the expert detector of typewriting and the expert on thumb prints.

The criminal who reasons that by sending a typewritten letter he will be able to escape the handwriting sleuth finds to his disgust that the typewriting sleuth has taken the trail in his direction, and that the situation la quite as hopeless as if he had indited his incriminating epistle in his own handwriting. Typewriting has individual characteristics as well as handwriting, the expert will tell you, and his deductions have led to the detection of crime in so many instances that he has now become a recognized Institution. Then, if the criminal has been canny enough to beware the typewriter and refrain from any sort of writing whatever, there is still the thumb print expert to reckon with. Tracking criminals by thumb prints lias now become so well recogniied an industry that the thumbprint expert Is turning restlessly toward the conquering of new worlds and is having the thumb-print system installed In banks, especially in banks which have a great number of Ignorant depositors, who either cannot write or who may be robbed ol their bank deposits by forgery. The.

thumb-print exert gives his serv- of the for a fixed chdrge to such banks as installed the ystem. that the clerks bank may be Instructed in the methods if making and recognizing finger prints. iie of the large businesses which might en-ape ordinary attention until ln-terer; as directed to It by a personal need Is that of the water-softening firm, which is alo tne water-purifying lirm. While the itself there is not a great deal of need for the sen ices of the firms engaged In this bui-tnecs. in the immediate "iiburbs of New York there i constant call upon the good offices of the witer doctors.

To the dweller in the lural districts who profound believer in the Insincerity and of tbe gieat city the manufa tine of artlrb lal gias- and sulphur and brimstone seem particularly Imi acteristb- of New York. The howeer. is not used as a ghastly subterfuge in the lty arks and but figures rather. the meadow of the ay lack home pl.iy or the extensive Uwns of a country estate in stageland. Neither Is the sulphur and brimstone as wicked as it seems.

Broadway does not draw largely on the product, nor is it employed In the grand fina.es of the cabarets and ilan-e halls i Is lr Faustus. InBtead It Is used in highly respectable businesses, and assists materially In curing the baby's sore throat and lighting the kitchen range. Another sttange occupation is the opening of safe by exjMTts often called in by companle unable to open their own ftrong boxes of the absence of the official in possession of the combination. WEST TO TRAVEL THIS FALL. Avail street Journal 1 The West going to travel this year, and It will take in the East rather than the far West, keeping that for 101S.

when the Panama Exposition rates go into effect over th transcontinentals. But this year a big wheat crop selling at a moderate price, a small corn crop selling at a scarcity price, and everything else, including cattle, hogs and poultry and dairy products, bringing big prices, will furnish the means for that roeasure of travel which the well-to-do farmers of the country and their families feel necessary fcr rounding out their year's life. Sir John Lubbock said that one of the pleasures of travel is getting back home again. For the farm- er and his family a trip by rail relieves tn straln and monotony of an all-year sUy on the farm. And not the least of inducements Is a round-trip thirty-day UcKet.

Chicago to New ork, taking in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other seaboard resorts for 127, Including sleeper. EAT THE EGG SHELLS. New York Press. A teaspoonful of chloride of calcium, three times a day, dissolved ln water, la healthful and nourishing, according to the Q.r.n Drofe.80rs. Emerich and Leow.

Llme, if taken In slight quantities as food. they contendr ls a preventive and a cure of many physlca, ,8 whlch now aflct humanity, Increasing the vitality of th-j orgMlB protecting it from harmful ml- Instead of throwing away the shells when one eats eggs, it would be better to eat the shells and discard the yolk and white, according to the personal view of these professora. MERELY A HINT. Tha Argonaut. Called upon for a "few an after-dinner anenVer was tk.

ol oraiory nair an nour later. Finally mi. a. niuerB wrote some- ft vHini.iLiiuwn me earn 1n tn.vh.M. IfnMsMbe forrATnCho picked up ana gianceo at it.

Tneir ne nie. nr- retUng his peroration. The note read: what Sherman said war 5 4 i fa a IV 7 m7 :4 r1 it .1 'TOV'j 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i.T iM li i 1 1 1111 I i W. Mi ll 1 I -I'l r'l'i'i A-AN UNHEALTHY THYROID GLAND MAKES A TOOTH CRUMBLE AWAY. JUST AS POOR OR- INSUFFICIENT MORTAR MAKES THE BRICKS FALL OUT OF A WALL.

LOCATION OF THE THYROID GLAJJJ. WHICH, ACCORDING TO DR. WALLER, MUST BE HEALTHY IF ONE IS TO HAVE GOOD TEETH. HOW A LITTLE ORGAN IN YOUR NECK MAKES YOUR TEETH GOOD OR BAD. 3 New York ORE important than all the den- tlsts and their new fillings and methods is the mystery of why teeth decay.

Dr. H. Ewan Waller, an eminent British dental authority, believes that a certain ductless gland in 'the neck, known as the "thyroid," largely controls the destiny of our chewing apparatus. Of course, no one doubts that cleaning the mouth, selecting proper food and general care of the health aid In keeping the teeth sound; and lack of these things contributes to their breaking down. But these axe not the only causes nor the main ones.

In spite of neglect and ignorance, some people have absolutely no trouble with their teeth, while others brush and clean and yet spend small fortunes with the dentist. "A polished tooth never decays," they say, and this is probably true, but It is equally true that nobody can keep every portion of every tooth polished all the time. "The iungs and the liver and the heart and other organs are supposed to take care of themselves without one personal attention." says Dr. Waller. "That Is nature's business.

If nature does not attend to her business we ought not to be perpetually dusting and sweeping and cleaning up after her as if she were a careless housemaid but should call her to account. "Good health was early recognized as one of the foundations for good teeth. But many cases of excellent general health show poor teeth, so we must conclude that there are various kinds of good health, some which include good teeth and some which do not. Also many of very feeble constitution for some re con have no need of the dentist." Among all the varying causes of health and disease Dr. Waller finds one constant factor.

When there Is trouble with the thyroid gland there is trouble with the teeth. All over the body, in nooks and corners, are found all sorts and sizes of glands. Some of these are well understood, such as those that secrete saliva for the mouth or tears for the eye. Taese hae outlets tailed "ducts," which supply their products where they are needed. There are also other kinds of glands which liavo no outlet.

These are called the "ductless glands." and whatever they secrete goes right into th blood' Itself. The thyroid is a blind. gland. It is In the rock and when enlarged causes the disease known as "goiter." The thyroid does several wonderful things for the body of which we know, ami doubtless several others unknown. The entire process of growth and development of a body into a full-grown adult depends on this small body hidden away behind our mouth.

When a baby is born without an adequate thyroid it becomes what is known as a "cretin." The cretin is not likely to be more than four feet tall, probably less. His Intellect hardly progresses at onen remaining so cnuoisn mat ne Is absolutely dependent on others all his life. The cretin lives a dull, vegetable like existence ar.d takes note of very little that goes on around him. His bones are stunted and feeble, curvature of the spine is common and bow legs exaggerate the short stature of the cretin. In the case of an imbecile of 'is.

i American. this kind with so many things wrong. it is not surprising that the symptom of bad teeth be passed by with little interest. Yet decayed teeth are the most invariable symptom of all. Cretinism can be cured nowadays by treatment with thyroid extract taken from the thyroid glands of animals.

This artificial supply gives the system the missing element in building materials, and the cretin at once begins to grow and even make up for lost time. If the treatment is begun early enough the system is able to turn out quite a presentable human being in the end. When the artificial thyroid substance is supplied before the permanent teeth appear these arrive strong, full-sized and able to resist the attacks of the microbes and acids of the mouth. If the treatment begins after the permanent teeth have come they are small, ill formed and doomed to perpetual decay until they are removed. In the teeth the action of the thyroid element Is particularly suggestive of mortar.

If there is extreme scarcity of this element in the blood the teeth will be stunted and malformed. If the lack Is not so great the building of the teeth will go on, but the structure is like a wall built by a stingy mason who has skimped on the quantity and quality of his mortar. The tooth crumbles away at the points nature stinted Just as bricka fall out of a poorly made wall. But the thyroid gland not only supplies a sort of mortar for building, but it givea us anti-toxins to fight germ diseases. It is such a faithful, self-sacrificing body-that it will wear Itself out in defense of the system.

Before the thyroid was discovered if was noticed that an epidemic of typhoid fever in a community was followed by an Increase in tuberculosis and other diseases among the convalescents. In the typhoid patients the thyroid gland hai exhausted itself In overcoming the disease and was unable to resist the next Invasion of tubercular germs. During this period of thyroid prostration the teeth give incessant trouble, but not usually while the system Is combating the first disease. Among children's diseases, measles seems to throw the heaviest burden upon the gland, and measles la usually followed by a sudden increase in dentists' bills. The reason that mothers before childbirth usually suffer from their teeth Is because the thyroid secretion In their blood is drawn upon for the growth of the child so that the mother's system, including her teeth, is robbed of its share.

Giving thyrotd extract to expec-ant mothers not only prevents decay of their teeth but relieves nausea. Of course, any person suffering from cretinism to a marked degree, if treated "kt all, would be given enough thyroldl extract to supply the teeth as well aa the rest of the system. The persons to be benefited by Dr. Waller's investigations are those who were born with healthy thyroid glands tout have exhausted them In fighting diseases. Such persons mav stop the ravages of decay in their teeth and avoid more obscure troubles in other parts of Hhe Bystem by putting themselves under thyroid treatment Thus should be done, of course, under th direction, of a physician.

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There is intimate connection be- tween digestion, nerves, brain and sleep, Plain food, eaten slowly, means good dl- gestlon and the elimination of a factor which makes against rest Perhaps that is all which ls wrong. Pleasure! There are two kinds. One exhausts or excites, the other is recra- tive. See to It that your pleasures, espe- dally your evening ones, are not ot, the sort that "take it out of you." Many of the "can't-sleepers" only require quiet evenings to put themselves right Then there's worry-the great hindrance to sleep. It's no good worrying! Do real- ise that Put your worries from you: Don't go over and over your past day.

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