TOOTH BRUSH CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 414, 25 January 1909, Page 3

TOOTH BRUSH CLUB.

ENCOUBAGING EXPERIMENT INA ' : ": ;.;/;■/ / : :/i/v../SCHOOIi./■:/;;•//;■:;..;!-. ■ '■:,■ The movement to/preserve, the /teeth of school children has :found"a practical supporter.in Miss H. J..'.Wright, headmistress of the■ Shepperton Epad L.O.C...Girls' School. a.t'lslington,/who/has organised','a , ."tooth i- .brush;club ■' .among.hergirls;." She has 300 ,■ children/urider'/her:, care, ■ ranging in age , from, seven .toVfourteen,: and although the ; idea only; recently materialised nearly all tho , childreriipossoss,tooth:brushes, and show , a ■ desire,to,keep their teeth-clean and in good ;. .condition'.;;'- V; ; / -:/ '•'■;.■ .-.:; •■•" ;.• , :Irithe : course, of/a/conversation': with -a !■• "Daily News"- representative/the■:headmis- ,■ itress; said tha V.when' she,first .started her ! clean teeth.crusade,"-it was thought that .'■ she-woulcl,never be able to 'train the children ..' to clean ;their/teeth', even' though, she sup-; plied ; them with .brushes. :- : \ .. '/, . . •■ l .'.''Bu"t' ; i l .have-.fciicceeded! quite beyond .my ', expectations,"'she 'added. - ""There is -.no ' organised: teeth-cleariirig > drill in the school, / but ■wei speak- to the' children and urge them '. toclean their/teeth in their own homes. '~ t / supply,them T?ith/ brushes at twopence each,; ! ■ and 'as some'/of "the children are Verf 'poor' : we : ;take'. farthing 'instalments ori/a/.'bfush/' . One. jor /two; .'children,,; who .could 'not/afford: : even, this sniall sum, have been knoW to usp : pieces of-./rag arid; flannel-for cleaning their 1 teeth.' Once a month/we:have a tooth:brush |. inspection, :and.if-the children's brushes are' ' worn put we supply .-fresh'ones. - It is really [ surprising how kindly the children have taken ' to the idea."/; ./':,/ .■' ■ ' - 'i