NIGHT AND MORNING.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2, 10 July 1912, Page 33

NIGHT AND MORNING.

•'pHE NIGHT BRINGS COUNSEL Nothing is truer, and if the counsel be wise the morning will bring with it ease ami calm ami a better frame of mind altogether, it is.

however, only indirectly of the mind that it is desired to speak now: the counsel offered primarily concerns the body which enshrines it. and whose joys and sorrows it shares to the full. But what affects one is inevitably reflected upon the other. Sleep, for instance. is indispensable to both, and who. having experience of insomnia. would ignore a valuable auxiliary in the wooing of sweet and natural slumber ? It is just during the night that the mouth becomes a cavity ventilated only through the nose—not taking into account those who sleep with open mouths—and it is not washed by the recurring saliva bath as in the daytime. These conditions are most favourable to decomposition. ami after a night’s rest >t i* not surprising that the mouth should feel unpleasantly •stale.” But unfortunately very few people fully realise how serious this mouth stagnation is. We ought specially to guard against 'eptic deterioration, ami to liegin early in life to guard against it. and the selection of the right preparation with which to effect the necessary purification is. of course, a very important matter. Tooth powders or pastes are inadequate

for the purpose, because the parts most liable to attack, the backs of the molars and the figures and interstices in and between the teeth—the

very parts where the harmful microbes I’ve and thrive —are n it purified, for the simple reason that they cannot be reache I by such thing* as powders or pastes. Only a liquid dentrifice can penetrate these minute erevives, and to do its

work effectively it must he an antisepti* preparation whose action is gentle and continuous.

Odol. the well-known dentifrice and mouth-wash, is such a preparation, for during the process of rinsing it penetrates everywhere. reaching the cavities of the teeth, the interstices between them and the backs of the molars, destroying bacteria whereever generated. Odol alone

can prod uve this effect, which is principally due to a peculiar property which causes it to be absorbed by the mucous membrane of the gums so that they become impregnated with it The immense importance of this altogether unique property should Ik* fully appreciate!. for while all other preparations for the cleansing and the protection of the teeth act only during the few moments of their application. Odol leaves a mkroscopically thin, but thoroughly effective. antiseptic coating on the surface of the mucous membrane and in the interstices of the teeth, which niaint tins its protective influence for hours after the mouth has been rinsed with it. It is this lasting effect that gives to daily users of Odol the absolute assurance that their mouths are nernianentl v protected

against the process of dee«»mpo-it ion. which, if not arrested, inevitably destroys the teeth. It is well to remember that it is as necessary to protect and cleanse artificial teeth as it is to safeguard those provided by nature, and that Odol is just a* effective in one case as in

the other. The artificial teeth should be ’lipped and rinsed every night in a tumbler of water. in which a few drops of Odol have been shaken, ami by rinsing the month al* > with the Odol before replacing

them, not only is complete puritici tion assured, but the gum* are renderr I firm. hard, and healthy. Smokers, too. find nothing so pleasant and effectual a* Odol for removing the o lour of tob.i from the breath an I eleam.ing the palate.