The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-07
CliDsing to an Old Tooth


Kate Thorn in New York 8eeklyl
There is no subject on which we all dis
play so much imbecIlity as NE do on the
toothache.
Everybody knows what the toothache is,
and that there is no anguish which begins to
compare with il when il gets well settled. In
the roots OF an old jaw tooth, and stirs up to
active sympathy all its ne1ghbors on that
side of tbs street.
If a man can have the toothache night
aud day for week, and not say some
thing Cross TO his wife, and not snub the
children, and be respectful in his de-
meanos toward the cats ssil, and the hall
door. and the hassocks aad ottomaDs which
lie in his pathway, he Is . Christian, no mat
ter whether his name ison the Church books
or net.
Toothache makes yen feel out of sorts all
over. You want TO bs- BET alone. You don't
waai people to tell ysu how they had 1t, be-
cause you know that they never began to
have Il as you have got il. You don't want
to see anybody with subscription papers.
Aoa have no welcome for chrome peddlers.
Ii the lightning rod man should call, he
would wish he had gone by. If your mother
in-law should corle 10 stop "A couple of
months, on her way to SISTER Sally's" she
would have more eause than ever 40 lament
that Nellie married such brute as she al
ways knew you we're.
But in spite os the fact that toothache is
awful, who is ready To exchange its fortunes
for ease bought by the application of the
dentists forceps2
You will suEer, and lie awake nights. and
keep everybody in the hoase awake, and
poultice, and foment, and hold hot things in
your mouth, and endure the stencil of ether
creosote, ana tell pour friends that you hope
to save that tooth and have it filed When
you know, and everybody knows, that it is
only because you dread getting into that
high-backed, stitf-kneed chair of DIR. Molar S,
and seeing the smiling Doctor mount the
stool behind you are fiourishing the glitter
ing steel of deliYerance before your eyes
You know that the final wrench will oc-
cupy but second of time; you dread that
second with an insane dread, and men who
can walk boldly into battle will grow weak
in the knees when they mount the Hateful
stairs which lead to a dentists office.
Sometimes We are led &c wonder what
teeth are put into our heads for Physi.
ology says teeth are the instruments with
which we masticate our fcod," but we don't
masticate many years without getting new
| set" which nature never had anything tC
do with. And the person who has got a
well fitting ''Set," and got used to running
ii, is to be congratulated. The fashion in
teeth has changed so much since the times
of our grandmOthers that it is not quite the
thing to be thirty-tve and keep your own
| teeth in your own head. 1t is a little be-
hind the times.
We remember once to have heard of 8
man who broke his engagement with 9
young lady because she had false teeth
Now, if that man had ever had an experience
with wife subject to the toothache, anG
trouble with neuralgia and had TO get up
cold nights and trot down stairs after the
camphor, and the Jamaica ginger, and a hot
tiat-iron, and then lie awake to see whether
they did good and then trot down again tC
make catnip poultice, and go to the next
neighbours to borrow vinegar, he would have
blessed his stars for wife who could take
all her teeth out at once, and put them ia 6
| bowl to soak over night.