PAQB tO
JULY, 1911
The Fortune Hunter
The second of a series of Articles on the conservation of
health and Its relation to human happiness and prosperity
(Continued from June Stockman)
If the results of such practices as
that described have never been suf
ficiently impressed on your minds to
command respect when you sit down
to dine next time, let me suggest that
Instead of a cocktail for an appetizer,
you go out and stick your head in the
garbage can a few minutes. Your
meal will, I am sure, be much more
enjoyable after this experience, and
i venture me assertion that your
stomach for awhile at least, will re
ceive something near the respect It
deserves. Whenever you And your
self forgetful. Just repeat the ner
formance I have outlined, and add to
the invigorating sensations that will
not fall to follow, the aroma of a few
whiskey sours and stale beer second
hand.
But the garbage can method of
eating ! not the only cause of gar
bage ran odors about the human
body. Have your nostrils ever sensed
the putrid breath coming from an
unclean mouth, or have your eyes ev
er Deneld a mouth full of decayed
teetn or apparently good teeth cov
ered with a thick coating of rotten
food, usually called tartar for re
spectability's sake. How inimical to
comfort such a condition is. But
very often we come in contact with
people whose berath Is nauseating al
though there is every appearance
viHiDiy, 01 cieanuness. wnen we
meet such a condition as this, we are
forced to ask Inwardly, If not audi
bly, what Is the cause. While it is
not always true, yet In a majority of
cases, It is due to Improper dentistry
It may be somewhat startling to the
most of you to know that ninety per
cent of the bridge work done by
Twentieth Century dentists, so-called,
is unfit to be recognized as sanitary,
and is in fact injurious to the public
health. For the benefit of those
who have never worn any half-tooth
bridge work, I will make the state
ment that It Is absolutely impossible
to thoroughly cleanse the irregular
pockets and crlpts of the ordinary
bridge work. Those who have worn
the ordinary half-tooth bridges al
ready know too well the difficulty ex
perienced In keeping the mouth
clean.
The mouth Is the entrance of all
food, and If the teeth are covered
with filth, the food passing Into the
body Is bound to carry with it to the
stomach some of the refuse that
ought to have been dumped Into the
garbage can. Do you imagine for a
single minute that this is productive
of pood health, especially when we
cor.slder that immediately the food
roaches the stomach it is absorbed by
the blood and carried to all parts of
the body for the restoration of worn
out tissues. Are you attempting to
build up your body with decayed
substances or good, wholesome,
cleanly food not contaminated by Im
purities lodged in your own mouth?
In these days enough impurities will
be consumed no matter how great our
struggle to avoid it; so I ask why we
should submit to, much less tolerate
willingly and perhaps thoughtlessly,
such a menace to Individual and pub
lic health.
Another thing: the brain Is nour
ished by the circulation of the blood,
which must bring to the peat of the
intellect strength or depravity ac
cording as it is supplied when it
reaches the stomach. Is it any won
der then that we find so many weak
lings intellectually, physically and
morally, when we look about us and
see some of the exhibition that are
put on three times a day at the ta
ble? CHAPTER II
Walter D. Moody, general manager
of the Chicago Association of Com
merce, calls attention in forceful
words to the necessity for right liv
ing In every respect In the following
irorde:
"This is an era of the greatest
commercial activity the world
has ever known. The develop
ment of business 1b one of the
marvels of the new century. A
few years ago, science as a fac
tor in commerce, was little
known and less appreciated. The
amazing advantages to business
of intellectual attainments were
utterly without recognition. To
day, however, business has be
come a contest In which the
quickest perception wins, thus
transforming the counting room
into a battle ground upon which
. brain matches brain for suprem
acy and success."
uo you want to go out Into the
struggles of every day life where ev
ery racuity must be keen and alert
under a handicap that will sooner or
later bring failure? Or, If perchance
you should, succeed In outdistancing
your contemporaries notwithstanding
me inongs mat Dind you round and
spell your limitations, would not your
achievements be Infinitely greater
were you to remove the one great
oarrier 10 complete successan lm
perfect and unclean mouth? From
a purely selfish motive, the measure
of success depending on this one con
dition alone should be more than
compensation for the effort required
for its accc itmsument. And this is
not all: in a thousand unknown ways
and places there will flow to you ad
vantages and opportunities never be
fore dreamed of, all because your
mental and physical vigor will de
mand and comprehend expansion.
The Scriptures admonish us that
"By their fruits ye shall know them".
In the present age, however, we can
not always afford to wait for the re
sults of a man's labor to Judge his ca
pacity to serve, so we must seek some
other formula by which to measure
ability. We have, therefore, chang
ed the admonition of the Scriptures
to sun present day requirements, and
It now reada, "By their mouths ye
shall know them". The demand for
efficiency is so Insistent that we are
compelled to Judge men by what we
see. By way of comparison: when
we build a house, barn, garage, or
what-not, we watch every piece of
material that enters into the struc
ture. and whenever we come across
one that bears evidence of decay, or
tartar if you choose, it is at once dis
carded. Is it not sensible that the
same scrutiny should be and Is being
exercised In Judging men and women
no matter in what capacity we find
them? Should we not, therefore, be
extremely careful to Bee that all the
evidences of decay are removed be
fore we mingle too freely among onr
fellow men, for the reason that the
trained mind is quick to perceive all
of our visible faults. Lasting suc
cess does not stride In the footsteps
avoidable decay any more than the
tower of Eiffel stands on a papier
mache foundation.
The first law of nature is self pres
ervation, and self preservation in its
true sense means right living. Clean
liness Is the first basic principle of
right living. Material wealth or
riches is the thing sought after most
by all of us, but the only real wealth.
and the one that brings happiness at
all times and under all conditions, is
good health.
Elbert Hubbard once Bald: "Heav
en Is largely a matter of digestion,"
and there is much food for thought
in this trite statement. I have no
doubt that John D. Rockefeller would
willingly relinquish half his wealth
if thereby he could restore his digest
ive apparatus, but money will not boy
this or any other function of the hu
man body. If we abuse and destroy
our stomachs through failure to prop
erly masticate our food and prepare
It as nature Intended before passing
it on to the digestive functions, life
becomes a veritable hell ea earth. If
you don't believe it, set before Mr,
Rockefeller some real appetising dish
which he may not eat because of the
condition of his stomach and then
register the sensations that pass
through his mind. Although I un
derstand Mr. Rockefeller to be a very
peaceful citizen, I should not advise
you to repeat the performance too
often, for some of the living, physic
ul evidences of the hell which he en
dures might find expression in an un
pleasant form.
I do not believe the day far distant
when railroads, factories, and all
large employers of labor, whether
mental or manual, the quantity and
quality of whose product depends up
on the efficiency of the individual la
borer as well as in a collective capac
ity, will require that all employes
carefully observe the rules of oral
hygiene. As a further and laglcal
step in the march of progress, such
employers will maintain efficient den
tlstry departments whose duty will
be to establish and enforce strict hy
giene of the mouth in addition to the
other branches of hygiene now pro
vided for by law in many states. In
the economical struggle for efficiency
of the human body, the proper care
of the teeth will be thoroughly ap
preciated, for the science of living
begins at the mouth.
As conclusive evidence of the
trend of public thought for the one
hundred per cent efficiency of the ha
man being, I may say that municipal
Hies, states, nations, are all striving
to perfect sanitary living conditions;
and Indeed this is a wonderful work
Notwithstanding all the progress in
this direction, however, there has
been little or no real advance toward
the sanitation of dentistry, the all
important beginning of right living.
A scientific study of these conditions
is fundamentally essential, for no
matter how insistent and noisome the
hum of Industry may become, the
human equation can never be entire
ly eliminated. Hygienics are as nec
esaaiy, therefore, to the development
of efficient man, as eugenics are to
the production of perfect posterity,
One cannot succeed without the other
any in ore than strong healthful prog
eny can spring from the cess-pool of
disease. The dentistry of today and
the future must be one hundred per
cent hygienic: the efficiency of den
tistry is dependent upon the preserva
tion of natural conditions so long as
possible, and where impossible, upon
the substitution of something tbst
will efficiently perform the functions
of the teeth; it also depends upon the
accuracy of articulation of artificial
teeth and the absolute freedom from
filth and consequent disease.
The next generation must produce
a class of highly trained and efficient
men to direct and manage the great
businesses that have been evolved by
the great hordes of humanity. Such
complex questions grip the throats of
the business world today that there
must come to their solution men of
unlimited analytical powers, whose
minds can reach out and grip-hold
nature. They must be capable of
making great strides where we have
gone step by step, and go about giant
like, solving in mental recreation the
vexing problema which we have been
unable to accomplish.
To sum up the whole pituatipn in
two words, the question of today and
the future is Human Efficiency. Hu
man Efficiency must rife to meet the
demands of commerce and Industry.
It has been said that the great im
pulse to all human effort I huneor
and love; hunger for ilif nvoussities
of life and distinction by way of
achievement, and love f.- those de
pendent upon the fruits of the labor
er's toll, and of the strupgle for pu
premacy. We all know that in-n
and women desire to he ,vlr.tt5 out
as monarchB of the buslu- and so
cial world; that they strutr.;.- for ad
miration, praise and est Miii-; slid Vi..
they crave to be the p;-ti 1 1- ;
of humanity, to loi l 'f 'hi a 'if.
must go among the ero' nd yby i
ally and mentally handle, out i ov
ercome and veritably cruh' -
people. Does not this mil i.'-,
bly for one hundred per tent liui .un(
efficiency, end can auy person h u
if he barber the destroyers ef health ,
physical fitness, which is the under
lying principle of success. Can any
one intelligently deny the relation of
in his own mouth?
All this points to the necessity for
efficient dentistry to physical fitness,
when all of the vital energy of life
must pass through the mouth in the
form of food and receive the first
step in the process of transformation
to intellectual and physical power
through the medium of the teeth?
We live in pregnant and decisive
times every day tolls the forward
march of humanity, and this is a con
clusive reason why we should pattern
after nature's precepts. Men who
live close to nature succeed in life
they absorb nature they are nature
human masters.
For this reason there is in all
things a lesson which each of us
Bhould learn, and while that which
I have discerned may not compare
with the beauty your eyes have be
held, yet no one can gainsay that I
have been benefitted. The angle
from which we perceive the deeply
hidden secrets of wisdom may afford
only the faintest glimmer of the pre
cept? of life, but in the constantly
changing vortex of physical exist
ence, if our minds remain steadfast
and sincere, some day a gentle radi
ance will fall upon and enfold us as
a beniBon.
To illustrate: I sat one day be
neath a magnificent tree counting its
leaves till confusion of numbers over
came' me and I lay back upon the
ground cushioned with grass full
grown. The fragrance of the air and
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