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Bird Victims Of

The Road ONLY 1

IN one of his books, written in the

pre-petrol ago, the late W. H. Hudson exclaims of young birds in; cummer, "How they die He then proceeds to mention fledglings killed: by "passing teams."

Motor traffic has enormously ex-i tended the avian death-roll, but this: record of high mortality Lunong young birds on the roads before tho advent of many cars is a reminder that, In spring and summer, when large numbers of Inexperienced youngsters launch out into the world,: even the slowest travelling vehicles take a heavy toll,

There are two or three circum- stances which increase the obvious ricks to which young birds are sub-i roads. feet when they cross the Certain species, especially birds and inpwings, are particularly lable wlien all fri

flightless the stage to become stuck in tar which has been melted by a fierce sun. Then the mother, responding to the tar-trapped chick, squenks of the Ingers with the rest of her brood, These others thus remain potential: victims-both of tar and passing cars --for a very much longer time than

a straightforward crossing road would involve.

Losing Their Heads

the of

serious obstacle to small birds re-

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,

OCTOBER

11, 1938.

TEETH

in in 5

CLEAN THEIR

TT is estimated that four out of five people in the British Isles never clean their teeth.

What?

remains small.

By Jill Adam

disproportionately

brend and fresh butter-should form a main part of every- body's diet.

Secondly, keep the mouth and teeth clean. In this coun- try nobody does, sny modern dentists.

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Do you use toothpick? It seems that many old-

Certainly not! Yes, in the British Isles, fashioned people have a vague America and the Continent in Well, at least you pass dental

for dental propaganda and public floss between your teeth? the total amount of tooth- iden that it's "natural”

Good heavens. I'vo other w paste and powder used is teeth to look after themselves, service.

In England it forgetting that civilised food,

was only things to do! I brush my teeth only sufficient to allow a soft, refined, overcooked, and in 1921 that a law was passed every morning, surely that's fifth of the population to overcomplicated, is the first enforcing the registration of enough?

dental cause of tooth decay.

practitioners. Before clean its teeth once a day.

No. To clean the teeth be- Again, high steep verges tro If, in addition, you count The "noble savage" has a that they really belonged to the fore going to bed is the most for white and ancient and worshipful com- important rule of all. Food cently hatched, and often cause them that some people do clean their reputation

and, indeed, pany of toothdrawers, And a particles left for more than n to stay in the road longer than they teeth twice a day you reduce healthy teeth: wish. When the verge is dry, the dust and grit there available is likely the number of people who clean when it's a question of tearing toothdrawer is what the modern few hours in contact with the raw flesh, crunching crisp fruits dentist emphatically is not, teeth give off acids which in- to attract birds to the highway. their teeth at all.

mediately attack the enamel so While the birds stay at the side, And the toothbrush manu- and biting hard bread, cooked

It is a fact that pulling out teeth that germs may enter to eut they are safe, but the times of com facturers

for and milled in the primitive way is rapidly becoming obsolete: and away the soft tissue forming the jubilation when, during the the teeth are kept employed in that we can look forward to a gen- of of tissue

manner sufficiently

com- cration not far distant when den- past few years, the sale of a

The enamel is a protective toothbrushes jumped from four mensurate with their original tures will be unknown."

purposo, and hence are as a rule This does not mean that dental covering: preserve it intact, and

decay will miraculously cease, but your teeth are safe. But the percentage of ten better preserved.

Old-fashioned There are, however, very few it does mean that, if properly look-

methods of Here it may be noted that, so for million toothbrushes to a popu-

cleaning (from the as old birds are concerned, it la gen-lation of nearly fifty million is noble savages left, anyway, not ed after, and if decay is taken in tooth erally true to say that it is the pace

time all normal teeth can be kept Roman use of powdered stones And that's only in this country. that kills, for the vast majority of not so good.

doing acful work in the head. and bones to the use of plain salt nowadays) may be effective 08 cleansers, but thoy are IT is thus illogical to sup- teeth looked after properly and abrasive, and gradually wear pose that a people like what does "taken in time" away the thin covering of pro-

tective enamel,

found reason

ing and going are risky, and it has always to be remembered that inex- perienced birds are liable to lose their heads and to miscalculate the speed of a monster approaching at to ten million. 50 feet a second.

casualties are caused by cars travel- allowing one toothbrush per

lng nt Jigh speeds. Particularly large numbers of Insect-eating birds nrs killed by cars. This is probably because such birds are attracted by the insects previously killed or dis- abled by traffic. These general be- ing much more benencial than the general run of finches, their loss is: more regrettable.

year for the ten million.

It is not surprising, therefore, that the British enjoy the re- putation for having the worst

Now what do the two import- ant ifa amount to: how aro

teeth in the world: that two out ours which lives largely on foods mean?

of five women over 32 have false affording no stimulus to the The first way to preserve teeth, and that over 60 per cent. saliva, no exercise for the teeth, teeth is to see that the prospec- of the people get them sooner and (worst of all) having a tive mother attends the dentist The most deplorable of all bird

primary predisposition to form and eats the calcium-forming IN modern times an en- or later. victims of motor traffic are the

It is not surprising that homes for bacilii in the crevices, food, not only for her own sake, search lies behind the formulas ormous amount of re- white or barn owls. These noble, beautiful, and very useful birds are gnatric and other troubles should be able to do without but for the baby's. Teeth start trawn to the roads because the ex- directly caused by bad teeth scientific dental care. We can forming eix months

of most well-known tooth pastes panse of uncovered ground affords

and powders, So that emelent birth. push aky high the sales of not. good opportunity of acizing rats, mice, and voles as they efoss, and digestive

A second reason for Britain's These foods-which include cleansing and polishing may be

combined with non-abrasive also because fair number of such the expenditure on necessities bad teeth is said to be that this milk, fresh fruits, leafy vege- creatures are killed or crippled by

motor traffic.

Mistakes of Vision

SCTCCOB.

"remedios"; while

before

for elementary mouth hyglene country is much behind tables, eggs, crusty wholemeal ness.

Yet

Mistakes that Have Made Fortunes may be insufficient to keep food

alike.

The saloon bars and tables In

various chemicals. He and big business houses are fur-

for the preservation of identical preparation nished throughout with plastic wood,' good teeth is to visit the dentist which is found to be an excellent regularly as a preventive mea- substitute for ordinary wood.

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even regular (and thorough) brushing twice day with toothpaste Though the vision of birds is ex- cellent in some respects,. It is de

particles from attacking between ficient in others, and many wind- screen casualties undoubtedly result TT is not usual to associate pros, material were superior to those of ed that formaldehyde was only one the teeth, from the victims' supposing in on

of substances which perity with carelessness, yet there the standard towelling, and mention of a family

Toothpicks, if properly steril- emergeney that there is oughfare" that way. As birds do have amassed huge fortunes from the The firm quickly realised the value stone.

a "thor- are many people in the world who ed his observations to the foreman. would form resins similar to milk-ised and used once only are a They call the family the valuable aid to mouth hygiene. not see stereoscopically, they

aldehydes. orc mistakes committed by themselves or of this chance discovery.

Failing toothpicks, dental presumably the mare liable to such by others.

Hundreds of people involved in To-day synthetic plastics of one errors and they are also the more And while the majority of the road accidents owe their eyesight, if kind and another are everywhere, floss should be passed between liable to misjudge the distances of benefits we enjoy to-day may be the not their lives to safety-glass, the Plastic clocks, plastic radio cabinets, close set teeth at least once a recognizable obstacles. Pheasants, result of careful experiments by use of which is compulsory in all telephone Instruments,

geArg and day. partridges and grouse seem to be scientists and chemists, a great num- road vehicles to-day. The discovery wheels for modern motor cars, bil-

WDB. entirely liard

As for scraping the tongue, particularly prone to make mistakes ber of them are due to negligence of this vital product

balls, electrical switches, about telephone wires and wind- rather than intensive deliberation. accidental.

holders, letter boxes, egg cups, bath-the reason for doing this daily A French scientist took an empty room taps the list is endless, Take, for example, ribbed hosiery.

is that soft civilised food lodges Do you imagine the idea originated bottle of a shelf in his laboratory. Plastics made from glycerine are between the hills and valleys" Incidentally, it may be recalled

grasp used 15 rubber preservatives. that a pheasant which broke a wind in the brain of some clever designer? The bottle slipped from his screen and caused a crash was the Actually, it was the carelessness of and fell to the stone floor. It re- Others, crystal clear, can be made at the back of the tongue, Intact. The only visible from ethylene, one of the constitu- forming a mucous which Boon cause of an important legal action

a machinist who omitted to notice mained n broken needle in her machine be- damago was a criss-cross pattern ents of coal gas. Scientists are now stagnates, and breeds bacilli last year.

A more amusing, though fore several pairs of socks had been made by hundreds of minute cradle experimenting with plastic glass for which attack the teeth. less pertinent, happening was report- made each furrowed with a single which later were found to be held lenses, watch-glasses, goggles, and ed two or three years since. A big groove which gave a factory in intact by a tough transparent film articles of a like nature. open lorry chanced to drive past sector the idea of producing a con- Inside the bottle.

* when a shoot was in progress: a high sintent ribbed pattern by dropping The scientist remembered that many up-to-date public-houses are pheasant, cleanly killed, dropped into overal more needles.

some years previously the bottle made from plasties. Some cinemas THE third important rule the back of the lorry, whose driver know nothing of his good fortune the new "ne" was enthusiastically made up an

His idea was put into practice, and contained until he came to his journey's end received by hostery trade and public and produced the first sheet of safety and found his Sunday diger be-

glass. hind.

But for the mistake of an em-

In this country, at least, old- An interesting example of a do-

ployee at a paper mill we might still The Helpful Cat mestic bird's octular limitations was be drying our letters with powder

About a quarter of a century ago Stainless cutlery, perhaps one of fashioned dental practitioners mentioned in a Scottish ifture talk,

Instead of blotting paper.

the greatest boons of the housewife, are partly to blame for the broadcast by Mr. Alwin Gising last

Wrong blending in a vat of paper a similar accident was caused by a

In this instance the bottle was was discovered as a result of a blun- number of false teeth about. cat. contents from year. A cockerel caught sight of his pulp prevented the

full of formaldehyde, which dripped der during the Great War.

A metallurgist was investigating They share the old-fashioned car. He crouched immediately ble for the mixture was sacked for

below. and raised his hackles, ready to fight, negligence. The pulp was thrown The following morning the chem- ing the perfect metal for this pur- later It will have to go: why not His opponent did likewise. Then he into a corner. Later it was found to sta found the saucer contained re- pose. Coe alloy submitted to him take it out now?" glanced along the length of the bum- have exceptional absorbent qualities, sinous matter. They invesUgated

ated for test contained a heavy propor- per and saw a whole row of cock-

and was dried out, rolled, and cut the properties of this

This, according to modern found ton of chromium. Found unsult- now creis; all ready to fight him. Undis into sheets of blotting paper,

substance, and discovered it was able, it was rejected and thrown on ideas, is heretical. If a tooth 12 Vessel once a prison (4). mayed, he prepared to engage the Better Towela

plastic at high temperatures, whole army of opponents!

and the scrap-head with other samples with a hole in it is scientifically 13 This catches many a fish (4). could be moulded or pressed Into which failed to pass the test. Robins will similarly fight

filled before decay approaches 14 A masculine not a feminine their

A mechanical fault In a weaving any shape or form. When it was Some days later it was noticed the nerve (before, in fact, there own reflections; pigeons will some-

machine and the sharp observation dyed the colours remained fast, that the chrome steel had not ruited times display before their own of the machinist gave us "fluffy" The cat had paved the way to the like the remaster of the rejects, is a chance of feeling the 15 No this seld has no connection images; and a duck' has been known absorbent bath towels. During new scientiae era of plastics

knife binda was made from it and slightest twingo of toothacho), 17 There is sure to be a scene if

with Hades (8). to quack itself to death in front of manufacture, threads of the cotton

Until the discovery of this "milk subjected to all types of weather, the decay can in most cases be a mirror.

material passing through one of the stone," as it was called, celluloid had At the end of a month it showed no permanently

this gathering is broken up (6). became An entertaining instance of birds machines

and been considered a

arrested.

pleasant More 10 Relatives valuable com- aim of rusting. Stainless steel had

(of making use of cors

over, modern white porcelain credited to ruffled, so that part of the work had modliy, but the new substance soon made its debut.

colour?) (?).

of a some of the London sparrows, which to be rejected, and was used by the took its place, for it possessed one

invaluable property which celluloid insignifiesnt happening can produce front teeth, absolutely undotec- Anatural form of binder (8).

Indeed, it is evident that the most fillings, make stoppings even in 20 An explosive, not one in certain places are said to acareli employees for drying their hands.

Canaanite tribe (7). headlamps and bonnets for insects One of the men noticed that the did not; it was non-inflammable. revolutionary changes.

table. which have been killed and caught drying qualities of the discarded

28 No tenderfoot he (8). up on the way. They are alleged to

It is not always possible for 28 A ittle cribbage score now past ignore metropolllan cars and to con-f

the layman to detect decay in ·(3). centrate upon those which have been driven up from "dormitories"|_ It would be interesting to know white- ther spurrows or any other birds have elsewhere been seen to search parked cars for food.

J. D. U. W.

reflection In the polished bumper of setting, and the. employee responsi- into a saucer of milk on the bench the problem of gun rifling and seek=|Individual's idea-"Sooner

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ACROSS

1 In a drought nothing can save young garden plants but this

teruil (11). 2 Bee 22 down (4). 9."Which spills the foremost-'s life, that party conquers in the atrite" (Scott) (8).

name in the O.T. (3).

Л

its incipient stages, because It 20 Sec 19 down (4), may have attained the inside of 31 Scottish shire (4), the tooth through a mere pin as Could be swallowed by an apa

Part of India (0), prick in the enamel: hence the

32

to soothe (4),

10s might be a dwt or a cwt even (two words-5, 6).

DOWN

2 Thirsting for blood (4).

absoluto importance of visiting 34 The amount of the customer's the dentist every six months, from the age of two till death.

Yet how many people never go to a dentist till they have toothache? The first twinge should tell them that it is al ready too lato: the dentist has not been given his chance to save the tooth.

One tooth in the mouth Is worth two in the plate.

3 Feminine form of threes (0), 4 Early life in imagination (7).. 5 This British island protécis

many a sailor (8).

8 This foreign servant works for

small chargos

7 The inventor of Alice through the Looking Glass (two words

Telephone 28021.

CROSSWORDS

6 Old foreign coin now English

(0).

10 When we may see the sun in

the south (4),

11 Suitable, mascot for a Tor-

Fitor ritorial At Force Company (two words 4, 3).

16 It is proverbially light (3),

19 Cause risk of '28 across but dl-

vided to appease '(8).............

21.This age auggests senility (3), 22 A cominon poetic division or 8

across (6),

23 Parliament is responsible but should not necessarily be blamed for theme Acts (7). "

25 Kind of horse that

many a fah (6).

[27. Whence

southern

catches

European

slates of old got good advice -(6).

30 This alzo catches fish (4).:

31 English watering, place, (4).

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