The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-11-23
OUR TEETH, FALSE AND REAL.

to the present writer, In years gone oy
by lady who bad suffered many thing!
mental and physical, and, amongst thu
latter, the pangs of tootbache.
The observation, it is almost needles!
to say, was but the conclusion of sen
:ence-the summing up-the pith anc
marrow of a conversation bearing upon
teeth, and the horrors attendant both
upon having and losing them.
In those days the individual who
pens these lines was younger than al
present, and holder, too, for both OF
which reasons we affirmed, 'We should
not dream Of enduring the pain for an
hour. We would have the tooth out on
the ins,antu' which was all very well
then-but now, ah, heaven! does a
middle-aged siren smile approvingly
wnen the doctor says, "All this hair
must come OFF," and does a more than
middle-aged bachelor look forward with
equanimity to the loss that front row,
which lent such lustre to his smile in
the days when he was slim about the
waist, and had N painfully perceptible
abdomen-when young ladies admired
the hollow in his back, and the perfec-
ton Of his ssdear" moustache, under
meath which his ''lovely" teeth cleaned
ftfully?
By sad experience-by the loss of
teeth, which were as very Benjamins
unto us-we are qualified to speak on
the subject of Our Teeth-,hatis to say,
if suffering, the memory of which time
has not dimned, can be charmed ground
of technically and trespassing upon
it-saying, in fact, what he has to say
on subject, disregarding vested inter
ests without fear or favor.
That toothache is a disease TO which
not one.half sufficient attention has
been directed by parents, and guar
dams, and doctors, and those who have
special care of the young, we are per-
suaded that the spectacle of toothless
old lady, painfully contending with a
tough steak, or an elderly gentleman
trying to chew crusts with his gums, is
u disgrace to our civilization, will not,
We think, be disputed.
That teeth should be neglected, de-
stroyed, and extracted in youth, and
that people should have so little regard
for the feelings of society as to make
signs of themselves in age, seems to US
in the extreme. A man
without an arm or leg does not offend
ones artistic sense one-half az much as
The sight of an individual who lacks |
front teeth, or has lost, through reck- |
lessness, imprOvidence, Impotence, or
every molar he owned in
the world! Yet consider how 10th a
man is to lose limb, while be is often
times even eager to get rid of teeth
Alb, my friend, be not over hasty in this
matter, for the day will come when you
would cheerfully give, ten times over,
he price of false set to have your
OWN familiar friends back in your jaws.
Deal gently with them, and have pa
fence, and see whether remedy may
lot be found, even when they give you
winges not easy to endure. Are they
lot bone of your bone, and flesh of
If your flesh? Were they not in your
avs when you came into the world,
oft, fabby, Uniformed like yourself,
tut still like you, also capable of being
made or marred? If they have caused
7ou pain, they have given you likewise
pleasure. Plaques, as people say of
ervants, they may be, and yet it is only
when you lose them, and are thrown
Jack upon your own resources, that you
earn the amount of work they have
discharged faithfully, and with but
-ery small amount of complaint.
But teeth are treated shamefully.
rom the days when children amused
themselves by cracking hard nuts, and
hamping brittle sugar-candy, to that
more mature period of life, when Pqter-
amilias grudges the expense of having
molar properly stopped, or of repair
ng the gaps time and pain have made
n his front row-teeth have griev-
nee with mankind. We use and we
buse them-we grumble at every
emmy they cost, and it is only when
be jaw is changed to that appearance
o admirably represented in the adver
isement of popular dentist, that the
lightest repentance is experienced.
Woe is me-" cries out the man
hose gums are bare as those of new
orn infant. "Woe is me, for the
-iends of my youth, for though false
eeth MAJ serve to deck my mouth and
id mastication, still the skill a dentist
an bring to bear on the subject is but
poor substitute for the admirable
,ecbanism of nature"
Toothache is one of those allurements
t which we find too little mention in
ne literature Of ours or any country,
erhaps, because, as people often kindly
smark, "though the pain may be very
ad, it is. after all, only toothache.''
My toothache. Indeed! Hear what
ne who suffered found to write about