THE NEW SMILE.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9326, 29 January 1896, Page 5

THE NEW SMILE.

In an ago in which ao many things are new it was not to be supposed that we , should escape the new smile. Like many other suoh inventions, ib comes from across the Atlantio, and like tho baby pose of ton years ago it attacks all sorts and comlitiona of women. Tho wide and caroles3 srmlo, more a grin than a smile, which is tho mark of those who lot thotnsolves bo swayed by an ill-considered mirth to the detriment of their personal appearance, has quite gone out of fashion. Tho new exercise (says tho diode) is a slow and. dreamy expansion of the lipe; it is poetic, and hinta at great things, uuoh as a life uo6 understood by tho ordinary run of folk, a heart yearning for lovo and othor kindred subjects, aud is calculated to lay low at the first fire all but tho most bucolic and beartlesa of men. And yet the origin of the new smile is by no meaus so pootic ; it is merely an affair of dentistry when its springs are analysed. In America, as wo know from books of travel, women are for ever sucking candy, with tho reaulD that their teeth suffer, uud though the dentists of tho States arc aecond to none there are occasions when they cannot repair tho ravages of the sweet stuff 3hopa. Therefore it is not always safe to trnilo with effusion, for it may be that a tooth is imperfect, though not yet ready for extraction. The art of tho new smile consists iv concealing the affectod tooth, aud only showing those of its companions which will bear momentary inspection. Iv fact the new smile, like so many of its contemporaries, is a ehsm, and tho only good thiug that can be said in its favour is that it is not worn by the New Woman.