KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6546, 20 November 1924, Page 8

KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT

Observe the next ten people you pass on the street. Six of them will have their lips parted. They are probably moifth-breathers. When Nature was manufacturing you she bored two holes in your nose for you to use in breathing-. Your mouth was made fOl- - drinking and talking, and not to convey the air to your lungs. The nostrils are especially fitted up with microbe-catchers. The open mouth is a germ nest. Breathe Ithrough your nose and you are not so liable to catch cold. And you’ll be handsomer. You won’t look so much like a fish or an idiot.

Also you will not snore. It is a common mistake to suppose people snore through the nose. They really snore because they do not breathe by the pose. If they would shut the nioutih the noise would cease. When you get the habit of keeping your mouth shut, it has a most beneficent reflex action on your soul. You don’t talk so much. Talking is a process by which' we get into trouble. One of the biggest numskulls I ever knew was elected mayor of the town because his clever political boss wouldn’t allow him to say a word during the campaign. It’s always better to have people wonder what you would say than wohder why you said it.

Of course there’s such a thing as being too silent. Men may call you glum. You must speak a little. Apd, personally, you are in ho danger of being too taciturnxjf you keep your mouth shut, people won’t discover it. Anyway, it’s a bad habit to set your hiouth going and then to go off and leave it, as you do. \