St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-19

A Dynasty That Owes Much to nm
American Dentist.

- AHAohASeAh DCAthbts
Paris Letter to London Truth.
A lady writes Inc from the court of
Stockholm that Mr.. Axel Gustafsen's tee
totalism, of which l said something early
in this year, has certainly found advocates
in King Oscar and his queen. But she
denies that pure philanthrophy is
the reason why they are so much
on the side of the Good Templars
the Blue Ribbonites of their realm. The
Bernadotte family have been LONG enough
on the throne and intermarried sufficiently
with German royalties and serene trans
,parencieS to suffer more from the ills to
which flesh is heir than ordinary human
beings. A quantity of alcoholic drink,
Therefore, which would not have any effect
on an ordinary Swede would be destruc-
ton and death to any one of their majes-
ties four sons. These princes grew up
with pain and grief. They overtaXed their
strength. Study weakened their eyes to
degree that made glasses an absolute ne
ceSsity. When they had measles, scarle-
tina or other Zymotic plaques of childhood,
these maladies left ''dregs" in their consti-
tntionS which were not easy to eliminate.
Their teeth have been from infancy until
now perpetual tormentS. The court lady,
writing from Stockholm, tells me that
the second son-Prince Oscar, aged seven
and twenty-haS been martyriZed by the
eccentric growth of his wisdom-teeth.
Instead of growing right up or straight
down, they shoot out sideways and force
their points into the flesh of the cheeks
Owing to the Wittelsbach and Nassau blood
which runs in the princes veins, this deflec-
ton from the order of nature has had con-
sequences which the Stockholm lady says
were extremely painful in more ways than
one and cast his royal highness sometimes
into the deepest depths of gloomy appre-
tensions. This is why. 1t caused ter
rible glandular disturbances, swell
ings, infammatiOns and their conse-
quences, and such intense cerebral suffering
that a brain disease was feared. Throat
and ears were badly affected and the Eus-
tachlan tubes were choked up. Physicians
and surgeons lost their Latin" when called
in to attend the poor prince. They gave the
fine Greek names to horribly ugly symp-
toms and prescribed treatment that
worked no cure. AS Prince Oscar is of an
age to marry and has for the last year or
so wanted badly to go a-wooing, ''ses
misereS physiologiques" were source to
him of worse than the distress arising
merely from physical pain. However, aIl's
well that ends well, OF peu pres. To a
great extent lat least so the court lady in
forms me who keeps me acquainted with
much that goes forward at the Royal Slott
in which her function forces her to live) the
root of the evil has been extracted by Dr.
Thomas Evans land the prince will, it is
hoped, soon be able to WOO bride at some
foreign court. and win her. too. The
name of the much-desred princess
the lady does not mention. She, in
fact, tells me that no matrimonial
engagement has not yet been entered into
on behalf of the prince. whose wisdom
teeth have been giving him so much trouble
Her idea is that, in the interest of posterity
and to keep as far as possible from Nassau
or Wittelsbach blood, he ought to follow
the example of she forgets what ancestor
on the paternal side, who saw a pretty
country girl washing clothes in brook,
made up to her, became her sweetheart and
finally her spouse.
The dental operation was so happily per-
formed that. according to my fair inform
ant, the celebrated American vino carried
it out was the darling of the court for sew
eral days, and the object. naturally, of pro-
fessional hatred in the medical world at
Stockholm. The king having Oh previous oc-
caSionS given him every Swedish decoration
that he can dispose of, made him a COM
mander of the Norwegian Order of the
Polar Star.