The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-06-05
miscellaneous.
That Young Dentist.


| strings of his wife's best bonnet The cause
| of this unwonted quickening of pulse anC
lmbcring of tongue in the lethargic little vii
| lage, hidden to an everlasting repose by the
| railroads that tapped it for neighboring
| city, was a-man Only this and nothing
| more; !" but he was young and good looking
| and had evidently come TO stay, as a modest
sign, whereon was painted, CDR. Graham G
Stacey, Dentist" bore witness.
If further proof of his staying qualities had
been asked it could have been found in a
kindly statement (price ten cents per lire,
conspicuously printed in the Middletown
PlaindeaLer, to the effect that Dr. Graham
G. Stacey, fresh from Philadelphia with his
well earned laurels had furnished elegant den.
tai parlors at No. 20 Main street, over the
barber shop, and would be pleased to receive
the patronage of the public. Dr. Stacey the
editor protested to know and esteem, taking
seven lines of nonpareil for a statement, and
adding a postscript relative to new and i'm
proved instruments" teeth extracted with.
out PAIN" fittings warranted to last for
three years." ct cetera, st. f."
Middletown read, marked. learned and in
wardly digested the Plhindealer's encomiums,
sent out scouts to find where the young
stranger boarded, and finally gave him the
freedom of the city by inviting him, through
the agency of perpetually standing commit
tees to take a sitting in each of the churches,
to contribute to foreign and domestic mis-
sions, to attend "bazaar," to have men,
bership in the circulating library. How de-
voutly the young ladies wished there was
vacancy in the choir and how scornfully
they commented on the BASES and tenors OF
the wel.meaning old deacons and elders who
innocently praised the Lord from the organ
loft
No one knew until later that the shapely
throat of the blue-eyed stranger was not
built for singing. His talent for vocalization
resembled the first Napoleon's for dancing
he could not sing himself, but he set his assoc
cates to warbling generally in his praise.
Small cause was there for wonder that he
should be the theme of eulogistic discourse,
even in the communities where all the eligi-
BILE young men had not taken Horace Gree
ley's advice and gone to the land of the set
ting sun and rising value of stocks and real
estate. He was TALL he was slender, he was
elegant; his raiment did not bag at the
knees or "hunch up" in the back; his teeth
were white enough and even enough to serve
as an advertisement of his profession, his
dark brown hair gracefully outlined the
smoothest and fairest throws, his moustache
was love, his mouth was darling; to be
sure his nose-a fine straight one, by the
way-was rather longer than the Apollo
Belvidere's, but then as Tom Miss Aurelia
Wintergreen's impertinent young brother,
said you can't have too much of good
thing"
physical charms and grace are well
enough in their way" says some sensible and
didactic old literary smooth BORE "but after
all they are but the guards and trappipgs of
real man, and they conceal rather than re-
veal him to u.s."
True enough, old gentleman No one
could have told by looking al our genteel, ge-
NAL dentist of sweet smiles and deierential
address, that he was equal to the task of act
ing the role of guide, philosopher and friend,
with suspicion of sentiment thrown in, to
twenty maiders, more or less mature, with
out danger ofpistols for two or breach-of-
promise case
otis opportunity that makes the man." If
he had lived in the far west, where bellies are
scarce and beaux are drug on the market,
he might have gone to his grave without a
suspicion of his talent for finesse. For in
stance; if he had any rivals save three or
four downy-lipped boys and an ancient wild
over, that couldn't see what the blazes
made all the women run after that tooth.car
penter," could he have taken Miss Millicent
Winter to festival one evening, applied
balm to the feelings her six intimate friends
by taking them in couples to the ice cream
parlors three successive evenings thereafter
Could he have extracted all Mrs. Higgins
upper teeth, when her intentions had been to
part with only the two front ones, and then
lured her back to invest in the wisdom teeth
the manufacturer cuts for you at two dollars
q tooth, and plate given as a premium, if he
bal moi cp1o limo a,,Ii tpr
the twins, Dora Isabella and Maud Ethelinda
Higgins, executed their soul-stirring duets
on piano and guitar.
Would twenty beautiful and accomplished
young ladies of the best families at Middle
town have submitted to the trying ordeal of
having their lovely countenances almost
turned wrongside out while DR.. Graham G.
Stacey dug and scraped and scratched at
their pearly molars with his lilliputan pick
axes and files, pounded red hot gold over
shrinking nerves. or examined the pimples
on their tongue with his little magntying
glasses, the while he halfchoked them with
napkins, whitened his sleeves with the French
chalk intended as an ornament to their cheek
bones, rubbed their autocratic noses the
wrong way, unused" their front hair and
knocked their back ditto into chaos of tan
giles and hairpns9
lncTe IL no pCCaslOn lOr ecnO 10 answer
these questions; they answer themselves.
tits perfectly ridiculous" solloquized the
widow Blondine, "the way those silly chits
ofgirls take on over that man Anybody
can see that they are wasting their time.
When he marries if am not very much mis-
taken, it will be woman with some knowl-
edge of the world, some experience in affairs
of the heart, not crude schoolgirl like that
pert Sally Satterlee, nor yet an unsophisti-
ticated village spnster like that absurd old
Aurelia Wintergreen They do say he
knocked her wig off and she sent him d note