The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-01-10
The Richest. Dentist in the World.

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longs to family half Quaker, half
Methodist, who were we'll respected
folks in the city founded by Penn.
! DR.. Evans became a dentist, and
took a wife when he was q very
young man. He then came to Eu
rope to assist his countryman,B Brew
ster, who had been asked to look at
ter the teeth of the Prince President
and had more business than he could
we'll attend to. Evans was an ex
tremely handsome and we'll made lit
tie man. His features, though large
were so neatly cut as almost to give
them perfect character. An Eng
lish tailor dressed him in the best
style. He always in the daytime
looked the man ofbusiness, although
it was easy to see that he was used
to rub shoulders with the foremost
personages Of the world.
A tincture Of American indepen
dence ran through his quiet manner.
In smiling, he showed, as il unin.
tentiona'ly-and it may have been
suns tntentiOu-a white and even set
of teeth. A small and nicely shaped
hand manipulated instruments of
torture with firm righteousness. -
There was genuine kindness in the
manner, and there was something
in the face which expressed an OBJ
liging disposition. Soon after the
coup fet.t, Brewster sold his bust
ness 10 Dr.. T. Evans. It included a
virtual monopoly Of court practice,
which, as the new Emperor was ON
nipotent, soon1 brought throng of
patients to the Office, at the Rue de
la Paix. 1t hat: 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 grand.
mother, prematurely toothless, liked
his dentists quiet and civil way
of discharging his morning duties.
The Doctor attended daily, when
in Paris, at 8 a. M, at the Emper
or's toilet, and then proceeded to the
dressing room of the Empress. Eu.
genie spoke French with facility, but
never liked we'll educated Paris-
ienne. She knew that she was often
mentally criticised b, members of
the encourage for her inelegant elocu.
tons. 1t 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 truthfulness that was re
freshing to ears that were tired of
flattcry. He also treated her teeth
as If they were pearls of great price,
and kept them for seventeen years
in excellent condition.
Napoleon III was, on the throne
unable TO give up his Carbonari hab-
it's, which we're seen through. For
instance, when the Czsr had bad
tooth and sent for Evans, Bismarck,
King Leopold, the Queen of Holland
Prince Mctternich, ant Nigra were
on the alert to find out what was
brewing at St. Petersburg. The for
tunate dentist accordingly was sum-
moncd to attend in many capitals to
royal teeth. Unwittingly he made
revelations the importance of which
he did not see. He was given dia
moud studded snuff boxes, rings,
pins and valuable furs.
Condesccnsion 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) Angus
ia did not go so far as this, bot she
gave the doctor two surerp Dresden
vases, with painted views on them
OF her Potsdam Schluss and Stalzen.
fels. The doctor has every kind Of
decoration except the insignia OF the
English and Prusslan orders and the !
Golden Fleece.
Under the Empire Dr.. Evans re
manned citizen of the United States.
He is very American in telling
During the civil war be went in
strongly for the North. Thurlow
Weed, TO counteract the influence Of
Slidell and his charming daughters,
took care to secure the co operation
at the Tuileries of Evans. The den.
list had Quakerly dislike to slav
cry. He knew how and whore to
take the Emperor, whose resolution
he increased when the court set, in
terested in the decker 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 clivalrous manner on the 4th oil
September. The Empress was de
serted nv all tho grand mpmhars nj