Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-02-23
\ RICH DENTIST.
How the American Doctor Evans Gained His
Health and Honers.
PLUGGING THE HOLES IN THE JAWS
OFs ROYALTY.

OFs ROYALTY.
Dr.. Evans halls from Philadel-
phia. He is of Welsh extraction,
and belongs to family half-Quaker,
half Methodist, who were well-re-
spected folks in the city founded by
Penn.
DR.. Evans became a dentist, and
took wife, when he was a very
young man. He then came to Eu-
rope to assist his countryman.
Brewster, who had been asked to
lock after the teeth of the Prince,
President, and had more business
than he could attend to. Evans was
an extremely handsome and we'll
made little man. His features.
though large, were so neatly cut as
almost to give them a pretty char
acter. An English tailor dressed him
in the best style. He always in the
daytime looked the man of business,
although it was easy to see that no
was used to rub shoulders with the
foremost personages of the world.
\ tincture of American independ-
ence ran through his quiet manner.
In smiling, he showed, as if uninten-
tionally-and it may have been sans
intentiOn-a white and even set of
teeth. A small and nicely shaped
hand manipulated instruments of
torture with firm dexterousness.
There was genuine kindness in the
manner, and there was something in
the face which expressed an obliging
disposition. Soon after the coup
dtate, Brewster sold his business to
DIR. L. Evans. It included virtual
monopoly of court practice, which as
the new Emperor was omnipotent,
soon brought throng of patients to
the Office at the Rue de Ia Paix. It
had got out that Evans was in high
favor at the Tuileries. The Emperor,
who hated fuss. and dreaded being,
like Hortense and Josephine, his
mother and grandmother, prema-
turely toothless. liked his dentists
quiet and civil way of discharging
his morning duties.
The Doctor attended daily, when
in Paris, at A. NJ, at the Emperor's
toilet. and then proceeded to the
dressing room of the Empress. Eu-
genie spoke French with facility, but
never like well educated Parisienne.
She knew that she was often mentally
criticised by members of her entour-
age for her inelegant locutions. It
was, therefore, agreeable to her to
chat in English-a tongue of which
she was quite mistress-with Evans,
who retailed to her the news of the
town and the current gossip about
the court, with an amount of truth
fulness that was refreshing to ears
tired of flattery. He also treated her
teeth as if they were pearls of great
price, and kept them for seventeen
years in excellent condition.
Napoleon I'LL was on the throne,
unable to give up his Carbonari hab-
its. which were seen through. For
instance, when the Gar had q bad
tooth and sent for Evans, Bismarck,
King Leopold, the Queen of Holland,
Prince Metternich, and Nigra were
on the alert to find out what was
brewing at st. Petersburg. The for
tunate dentist accordingly was sum-
moned to attend, in many capitals, to
royal teeth. Unwittingly he made
revelations, the Importance of which
he did not see. He was given dia-
mond-studded snuff boxes, rings,
pins and valuable furs.
Condescension was in many an in
stance pushed so far as to send him
the likeness of royal or imperial
patient. executed expressly for him.
The Empress (then Queen) Augusta
did not 60 SO far as this; but she gave
the Doctor two superb Dresden vases
with pointed views on them of the
Potsdam Schloss and Stolzenfels.
The Doctor has every kind of decor
alton except the insignia of the Eng
lish and Prussian orders and the
Golden Fleece.
Under the empire, DIR. Evans re-
NAMED a citizen of the United
States. He is very American in feel
ing. During the civil war he went
in strongly for the North. Thurlow
Weed, to counteract the influence of
Slidell and his charming daughters,
took care to secure the cooperation
at the Tuileries of Evans. The
dentist had a Quakerly dislike to
slavery. He knew how and where to
take the Emperor, whose irresolution
lie increased when the court set, in
terested in the Jecker affair, wanted
the blockade of the Southern ports to
be broken.
Evans was the only familiar of the
imperial couple who acted in brave
and chivalrous manner on the 4th of
September. The Empress was de.
serted by all the grand members of
the household and the high function
aries. Even her cousin, NJ. de Les
seps, who had often proffered good
counsel, which was not needed, but
who owed the success of the Suez
Canal to her, did not remain at her
side. In her desolation she thought
when on quitting the Tuileries the
AeoAAoh @Aihio1CA put AcI duO 0xtuO.
Lebreton into cab, of driving to the
house of DR.. Evans. The idea was q
happy one. Her Majesty arrived in
her dressing gown. Mrs. Evans was
at the seaside; the Doctor was ont.
When he returned, he saw the
fugitive had not been recognized,
and treated her as if she had been
driven by an aching tooth to call
upon him at his private residence.
The locks of his wife's clothespresses
were forced to obtain a change of
raiment for the Empress. who, with,
her lady, was taken by the Doctor in
his own carriage to the Norman
coast. A good friend in adversely to
the imperial couple, Evans had when
they were triumphant, the courage to
give them wholesome but unpalatable
advice. Knowing thoroughly the
organization of the Prussian army he
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