Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-09-21
FASHIONS IN TEETH.
THE LATEST INNOVATION IN PRO
 GRESsIVE DENTISTRY.

s1sking the Tint Suit the CorapIexion-A
 Aching Bi-cuspid d-Teoth for Elderly
 People.
 On steel ling about twI-e as big as key ring, which hangs on the wall in Twenty-thifd street dentsst'S office, are about lS0 human teeth mounted on thin steel swivels about two inches long. A nlan who sat in the dentists office the other day, holding with both hands tooth that he thought was likely to jump out of his head, it ached so bad, stared at the ring and wondered if it held trophies of the doctors art, and if the jumping tooth would soon be added to the cOliec- ton. The dentist ill tife meantime was holding an animated discussion with a fair woman patient who sat in the big chair of torture. Pretty soon he took the ring of teeth from the wall. and the man with the jumping bi-cuspid saw him go through Inaneuver that he thought ex- ceedingly strange. He stood in front of his patient and, selecting q tooth from the ring, he would hold it by the side of her face, and then look at her as though ha were in some impossible way contemplate ing the effect. Then he would take aD- other and go through the same operation. Finally he made an entry of some kind in q little book, told his patient to come Tuesday, and hung the ring up on the wall again.
 When the man with the bi-crspid had climbed out of the chair wit, the fierce edge of his toothache dulled l;t,i. " big wad of savory creosote, he ass.,.i the dentist what his curious operat-va with the castanet of teeth might mean.
 ''It was a very simple natter" said the artist of the forceps and the nerve ex- tractor. Il was trying to find Q tooth that would suit her corYleXiOn. No, you needn't laugh. It isn't joke. It's tho latest fad in dentistry, and when you sOme to understand it, you will wonder somebody hasn't thought of it before. Haven't you occasionally noticed that somebody whom you have met has a set cf false teeth, and you know it perfectly well, though you can't tell why? There Is something about the appearance of the teeth, you don't know what it is, that tells you, and in q vaguely unpleasant sort of way, that they are false. You see some otherwise good looking woman laugh, for instance, and the first glimpse you get of her teeth strikes you as disa- greeable, although they may be white, | pcdTly anu even. you ever guess what was the matter?
 ''rhe trouble was that the woman's false teeth, though excellent in every oCiier way, no doubt, and costing a sum that probably made her husband vince, were not of a tint to suit her complexion know of scores of women, and no doubt there are thousands and thousands of them in New York, who have uncon- sciously made perfect spectacles of them selves that way. Now just think how . woman with black hair and an olive con- plexiOn would look with perfectly white teeth. The effect is the ghastliest thing you ever saw, when you come to think of 1t. Yet I'll bet there are 10000 black haired women in New York who are wearing false teeth as white as . sepul- chre. Then what would you think of 6 londe with blue eyes and light hair and yellow teeth like theSee That would look nice, wouldn't it9 We'll, just notice how many blonde women you see dis6gured in just that way. Think of the spectacle red headed woman makes when she opens her mouth to laugh and shows the teeth some blacksmith of dentist made as yell low as a South Brooklyn ague victiml It Is dreadful to all persons of cultivated sensibil;tics. Dark cOmplexioned persons should have teeth of about this shade" showing a yellOwish tinted tooth on the ring. Light complexioned persons should have lighter tinted teeth. Red headed persons look best with sort of gleaming white that is not just a dead white, but Is not at all yellow.
 ''It's the same way about the ages of people An old man with wrinkled skin and gray hair looks hideOus with white teeth. It's unnatural, and think that even the East river oysters must know that such a man has false teeth, and i'll made false teeth at that. The way we do now is to notice the complex lon carefully, and then strike tint that agrees with it. These teeth that you see on the ring are made of porcelain They are of every shade and variety of tint A.lown to the profession. Each one is numbered. As soon as we find out the shade that is wanted for customer we send the number to the factory, and the whole set is made of that tint.
 ''That's considerable advance in the dentists art, but it is small compared with some other things that have been accomplished since the days when false teeth, plate and all, were all carved out of solid piece of ivory"
 ''When was that?'
 "About a century ago. There is such a set, or, rather, two such sets, one for the upper and one for the lower jaw, that were made for George Washington, in the possession of New York dentist. They were carved with almost infinite labor out of snlid ivory. On each side at the back were little gold springs that kept pressing the two sets apart. That prevented their slipping out, but made them terribly tire some to the unfortunate man who wore them, and if he ever went to sleep with them in his mouth they pried his mouth open and made him snore. They were very clumsy teeth, we would think, and only to be used on state occasions. "-New York Commercial Advertiser.