Where Is Your Mouth?
It has been discovered that the human mouth is slowly but surely nnd steadily moving toward the left of the face, which will, in time, bring it somewhere in the neighborhood of the left ear. All the five great races of man have an uncontrollable tendency to eat only with the teeth which grow from the left jaws. This wears out the left teeth more rapidly than those on the right side of the mouth, and this in turn gives the upper and lower jaws an inclination toward the left.
It is the expressed opinion of many scientists who are foremost in the world's roll of professional honor that in the course of time the mouth, from causes above mentioned, will have completely changed its position, and that it will then be situated rather nearer the left ear than to the nose. •—St. Louis Republic.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1892, Page 3
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