Church review . TONGUE. It is astonishing how long this breed-ing ground for all manner of germs offermentation and disease, which is of-ten produced by nasal catarrh, has re-mained unnoticed in this age of anti-septic phiosophy. The cleaning of thetongue should be recommended andpracticed as a hygienic procedure. Nodoubt there is a constant stream ofgerms of all sorts carried into thestomach from this foul coating of thetongue, infecting the alimentary canalas well as the blood. .. .The most com-mon cause of bad breath is the de-composition of this coating on thetongue. By thoroughly scraping
Church review . TONGUE. It is astonishing how long this breed-ing ground for all manner of germs offermentation and disease, which is of-ten produced by nasal catarrh, has re-mained unnoticed in this age of anti-septic phiosophy. The cleaning of thetongue should be recommended andpracticed as a hygienic procedure. Nodoubt there is a constant stream ofgerms of all sorts carried into thestomach from this foul coating of thetongue, infecting the alimentary canalas well as the blood. .. .The most com-mon cause of bad breath is the de-composition of this coating on thetongue. By thoroughly scraping off allloose matter and disinfecting the sur-face, the odor will be removed, providedthe teeth have also been cleaned. The city government of St. Peters-burg has been so alarmed at the rav-ages of drunkenness, that sa-loons in that city have been closed, andonly under the control of thestate, have been substituted for them,and certain limits have been placed up-on the amount of liquor sold in WOMANJ^iRK WOMANS CHRISTIAN TEMPER-ANCE UNION. Although some of the members hadnot returned from their vacations, thefirst meeting of the W. C. T. U. waswell attended Sept. 5th. All seemedenthusiastic to begin a new yearswork. The State Convention and thelocal Annual meeting come this yearupon the same date, therefore it wasvoted to hold the annual meeting onSept. 19th. Reports of work by theUnion and by Superintendents of De-partments will then be given and offi-cers for the coming year will be elect-ed. The twenty-fourth annual conventionof the Connecticut Womans Chris-tian Temperance Union will be held inthe Congregational Church, Valley St.,Willimantic. Oct. 3, 4. 5. 1899. Theconvention opens at 1:30 p. m., Tues-day, closing at the same hour onThursday. Miss Jessie A. Ackerman, the mostdistinguished traveller among womenand one of the White Ribbon Round-the-World Missionaries, will give anaddress on Wednesday evening and bepresent to assist during the entire con-ve
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