CAMBRIDGE WOMEN

Waikato Independent, Volume XLII, Issue 4002, 15 May 1942, Page 3

CAMBRIDGE WOMEN

FEMININE NEWS AND NOTES X: ...

G.F.S. MEMBER HONOURED EVENING AT VICARAGE On Wednesday evening members of the Girls’ Friendly Society gathered at the vicarage to honour Miss Juanita Eaton, whose marriage takes place shortly. Musical, items were contributed by Misses Dawn White, Joan Blackman, Audrey Smith, and Pamela Oaten, and by Masters John and Oliver Chandler. The Rev. C. W. Chandler presented the guest of honour with a small gift from the girls. * Those present included Mesdames Chandler, Eatoli, Haworth, sen., Blackman, Linsley, Buttimore, Bear, Roseveare, Dix, Hargreaves, and Haworth; Misses Nancy Armstrong, Mary Wilkinson, Marjorie Hensen, Mary Tucker, Ethne Johnson, P. O’Loughlin, J. O’Loughlin, Shirley Buttimore, Audrey Smith, Joan Blackman, Nancy Fairbrother, June Clayton, Marv Mahood, Dawn White, ’Pamela Oaten, Vida Foote, Francis Missen, M. Hamilton, Shirley Howard (Auckland), and T. Pemberton.

EDUCATING PARENTS

WORK OF DENTAL CLINICS

“The dental clinic is not just to fill teeth and extract teeth do relieve toothache; it is a service to teach children and parents why it is they have suffered disease and decay and how much it is in their power to reduce any further dental disease, said Dr Taylor, dental officer in charge of the South Auckland district, at a Dental Clinjc Committee meeting at Te Kuiti.

The tremendous bearing the health of the mouth had upon the health of the whole body was stressed by the doctor. He referred to foods that satisfied the appetite, but did not nourish the body. Refined cereals and white flour were tv o typical examples; wholemeal should replace white flour in the diet. Simple and natural foods were on the right lines.

“ Sugar- rationing will be a good thing for the health of the country,” said Dr Taylor.

He referred to, the lives of the Maoris before Europeans landed. This illustrated the fact that it was possible to produce health without milk or dairy products. They, however, lived entirely on natural foods.

“ The more educational work a nurse, did the less operative work she would have to do,” said the doctor. It was easier to carry out this work in one big school than wheVe a lot of schools were served with the one nurse.

“It is. very important that the parents should learn something of the educational side,” he said. He referred to the bad reputation of the teeth of New Zealanders compared with overseas people, and deplored thte fact that so many were getting artificial teeth at Such an early age as they did not enable people to deal with the proper kinds of food.

The doctor said the clinic aimed more at the prevention of dental disease rather than treatment. “ 111-health was the inevitable result of faults in the way we live,” he said.

“We cannot take children in hand too early: extension of service to younger children is of more real value than extension upwards.”

THE FAMILY FORUM

ENLISTING THE CHILD’S SENSE

OF FUN

When a group of mothers get together a large part of our conversation deals with getting., the younger ones to brush their teeth, or wash their hands with a minimum of talking (says, a writer .iff the Christian Science Monitor).

. When my twin girls-were .small I conceived: a plan of; drawing a‘large cat apiece and putting it in the bathroom on the wall, where they could reach; this cat was ' divided into squares, each square was to be filled with orange crayon when teeth were brushed that day. One square a day. Other squares were to be coloured red when hands were washed before meal times, but without being told.

They loved to colour their cat, and at the end of the week, if each square was taken care of daily, the cat would be full of colour. We had a lot of fun, and the habits formed have persisted to this day,-/'/