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 before the child is born has just as definite effects. If the expectant mother’s diet is lacking in minerals, vitamins, and other materials which are needed in building teeth, the first teeth of the infant show the bad results.

But knowing the importance of right food selection and the functions of food in the body does no good unless this knowledge is used in the selection of each meal. Malnutrition is not found exclusively in children from poor homes. Examinations of thousands of school children have shown that many poorly nourished children come from well-to-do families.

The woman who sees in her profession of feeding the family only a drab routine has never seen the “spires of Wellville shining in the sun.” She has strayed from the pleasant road that leads to this capital of Health. To build the body right, to make it receptive and expressive, vital, responsive, joyous—surely this is no mean or petty piece of routine work.

The selection of the fundamentally right foods, the preparing and serving of them so as to make scientific living a pleasure—these things are vital. There is no efficiency without health. It is as necessary to the success of work as to the joy of living.

Thousands are marching down the Road to Wellville. Come, join the happy throng!