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...order that the unfortunate four out of every five may understand the snag of their dental downfall, the great American Tooth Brush King, from the quiet and seclusion of Atlantic City, yesterday divulged the following information. America must use 330,000,000 tooth brushes a year; at present barely 40,000,000 are plied and discarded...
Dissecting these figures by Business School methods of analysis, it is plain that in this degenerate age there is only one tooth brush for every 2.7 persons or, to put it more clearly, one person to .37 of a tooth brush. Now supposing that there are 10,000,000 people totally toothless out of a population of 110,000,000, including babies to four months, prize fighters, victims of lock jaw, and octogenarians; and further supposing 10,000,000 souls who, for one reason or other, do not believe in this modern luxury such as Holy Rollers and vegetarians, there...
...family tooth brush is still, therefore, as much a reality as ever. Father and mother make two, leaving a difficult .5 to be accounted for in the use of this valuable instrument. This, however, fits in perfectly with modern statistics as to the number of children per family, which is some fraction of a child. The Brush King may rest assured, then, that all members of the American Household are satisfactorily accounted for, and that no toothed mouths go unbrushed...
...Montauk, Childe Hassam, famed artist, paints pictures of the countryside. Last week, he exhibited a group of them in Manhattan. It is always afternoon in Montauk; there whisper trees more shadowy than any that ever stooped their boughs in Eden; gods live there and fairies, so says the brush of Mr. Hassam. Diana as Spring bursts arrowy-footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads dance upon a blowy hill against a far horizon. It is not strange, then, that...
...instrument which so unites the rhythms of music with the accents of color, properly perfected, is beyond doubt as permanent an addition to the engines of Art as a violin or a paint brush. Great advances have been made in the Clavilux since its first demonstration in Manhattan three years ago; great advances must be made before it will be pliant to the uses of genius...