Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — Keep Your Month Shut. [ARTICLE]

Keep Your Month Shut.

Many disease germs enter through an open mouth. . The mouth was not made for breathing, but for eating and speaking. The nose was made for breathing, and the air, passing through the long and moist nasal passages, is purified, and leaves behind dust, disease germs, and various impurities, while the air js warmed and tempered for the lungs. But when the mouth is left open, dust, dirt, and disease rush down into the lungs, and, fastening there, develop and destroy the whole system.—The Christian.