Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-15


already thing OF the past, around
whose knee clus er dear olive branches,
and in whose curls the silver threads are
fast outnumbering the brown ones-I
have lately fallen desperately iu love
name Of the late object Of my idoIatry
is--Ether
For more than n year | have said to
myself almost every day. 81 m5'st have
out my upper teeth and get Il new set. "
Time and again have l appointed my
painful visit to the dentist, and as often
has something intervened to prevent
Yet, rs week after week my old teeth
broke, and crumblcd, and fell away, /
felt the mwisdsm Of procostination.
And still, as mortals will, l procrasti-
mated. Saith the country parsons, "by
the make OF the universe, every duty
delayed grows in bulk, and weight, and
painful pressure" He might have
added (but he didn't "tlis is pre-omi-
nently true Of teeth that ought to be
pulled.
l took sudden resolve, the other
evening, to 90 the next day and have
the thing done slept on it over night,
and rose in the morning more bravely
determined than ever. After eating a
hearty breakfast, with the innate con-
sciousness that. if ] carried ont my
plans, it was the last meal 7 should
really enjoy for many days, l arranged
my room as for a hospital, shat up the
organ and sewing machine with pre-
monition that neither musicn nor sewing
would have any charms for me on my
return, and, with "gudelSm as es-
cort, set my face as flint toward the
dentists. We are assembled at length
in solemn conclave at the dentist Office.
There is the family physician, whose
i"oe - 'l'"' VI " "''i iI''li,' II io''. ~ as
socIa'lon with pam renewed ana SICKNESS
mlnlstered unto, ana no less dear oe-
cause We sadly remember those whom
his best efforts failed to save there is
the little, resolute dentist and his sensi-
bic, lovely wife there is the "gude-
man, and there is poor nervous me,
my courage fast oo2ing out at my finger
tips in this room so foreibIy reminding
one OF torture-chamher OF the mqulsl-
ton, with Its wcked-looklng lnstru-
ments and glass Jars OF teeth. 1hev all
see and feel that my teeth are a very
bad set to pull, and ii they don't say 1t,
| see It IN their looks, and know they
only refrain to encourage me. For out
of all the sixteen moIars, grinders, Gus,
pids, blcuspids and what not that once
adorned my upper Jaw, only two things
remain that can be called teeth, though
none have ever been drawn. The rest
are stump9 and must be dug ont,
Either or chloroiorm?' is the Ques-
ton,
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10 rigbt
How that ether tircles to the worry
tins.of NV tipgers orJ foes Tlare 10 q
cbokinn sensation too Mt frst vorv nm.
nleosont and can saom 70 hoor NV
heart beating in GREAT loud thnmps
But the doctors FINGER is on NV misc
and he will know if ANYTHING is amiss
7 do not seem in GROW ot all sIeenv-
never was wider awake in nv life
tbopob keen nv cves rars;stentlr
closed and trv 70 dron off knowing
tbev MI stand WAITING II occrI.s to me
that tbev will have 70 woit lorcor tbon
tbov dream of
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i'o"'" wien '''' 'en 'o" S"!' 'ne
uo''o'' s.',ng iuo NvN S"Pp,' u
e'',,' 'nil"'o "s','"' poN''ii' i'i7 io"
sn"'l I n'o" eno"5N ~ " open ny HA'0'"'
wig" ! "iH "i''''' 'n'ei'io'o'
But there are no signs OF that yet /
am shll VIDE awake and Know all that
is sald ana DONE Inc doctor says the
room IS getting warm, and some one
opens door Thenthe hre makes such
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