The Archive · 1929

Regulation in Childhood

But the dentist can do wonders nowadays, and his carefully constructed regulating appliances will coax back prominent teeth oF widen the archer and abolish the crowded appearance. But this can only be done in childhood, when the teeth are being formed, as when they are fully formed it is very difficult to change their position. Regulating is often a lengthy process, but the results are well worth the patience and occasional discomfort which it necessitates, 'The lips, too, must play their part. The' one necessity is that they should be well exercised: and this can best be done by, of all times, "enunciating clearly "and avoiding the slipshod speech: 5 common to-day. Tf the muscles of the Nips are well used, the blood supply will be good, and the lips will be 80 naturally full of eolout that the lip-stick may be dispensed with. Youthful lips will often defy the calendar, and their fortunate owner will not have those fine lines fon the upper lip ich mark the of youth. The continuance of childhood habits such as pouting, which causes the lips to become enlarged and coarsened, twisting the mouth and pursing the lips, are all fatal to loveliness of the mouth.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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