The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-07-05

III Is a tact, and l nave been to a
great deal of trouble to look up this
matter, as I know that even the most
careless reader would like to know all
about it. Many of these shades are
remembered by number by the trained
statesmen, but to remember the whole
six thousand would be out of the ques-
ton.
1t may be of interest also to know
that these large tooth works at Phila
delphia make a perfectly black tooth
for use in those countries where the
teeth r blackened by the people who
regard themselves as the 4 qua non
OF society. American people lead the
world in the manufacture of teeth and
supply every quarter of the globe with
good dentistry. The success of our
American dentists is in the mouths of
the nobility of all nations. In Paris
our American minister is brought into
constant social conflict with an Amer
lean dentist from Michigan, and me
minister resigned because this dentist
played against one of his receptions in
Paris with a musicale of his own.
In London, an American dentist was
the only American guest at the mar
riage of the Duke of Fife and the grand
daughter of the Queen. His name was
DR.. Evans, and he showed me the card
Of invitation one Sunday upon the
Thames and afterward gave me a bite
of the wedding cake. When I tell you
that minister Lincoln and [ stood out
side making a willow whistle in the
churchyard and waiting for DR.. Evans
to come and give us points on the we'd
ding, and when I tell you that Mr.. Lin
coin, Consul New and l, three men
whose names r. household words,
stood at the gateway with our dinners
in a large tin pail and saw DIR. Evans,
our American dentist, coming out and
leaning on the arm of the Queen, even
going so far as to unhitch her team
from the fence and drive it around to
the front door and help Victoria in,
you will agree with me that the dentist
of our own fair land is no SLOUGH.
For certain Asiatic countries this big
dental house make a pure white tooth.
This is really as odd looking as the
black, for no human tooth is a pure
white. 1t is Is CHASTITY as a perfectly
white skin. The factory makes one
grade of blue white, and pearl white,
in this country for Use among the peo-
pie who die their hair a dead black or
YEA fawnskin wigs. Elderly orphans
wear these teeth, and smite them to-
gether while smiling on those they
love. 1t is sad to see these frosted
cake teeth nesting away among tile
deep dyed whiskers of a decayed old
bachelor or a new-made widower. These
teeth are also used for gnashing pur-
poses.
Teeth made recently are filled with
gold in order to make them look more
lifelike, and 80 artificial teeth can be
made to fool the closest scrutiniZer. A
dentist does not listen very closely to
what you say, but as you talk he
watches very carefully to see what sort
of teeth you wear, just az the boot
black keeps his eye all the time on the
feet of the people who go by him.
Mr.. Foster was very polite to me
while l was in Atlanta and rendered
me the hospitality of his house. He has
a horse that has outlived eleven
grooms. He came very near outliv-
ing me
The hen is a hiped, Indigenous to all
temperature countries and often 1empts
people who wish to make a livelihood
without heavy work to go into the egg
business; also into the growth of broil-
ers for the New York market. Do not
try to raise eggs and broilers in a fiat,
for the other tenants might not like it.
Hens need room. If you crowd your
hens they will off by the score.
This is my third effort in the direc-
ton ofsupplying the metropolitan mar
ket with eggs and broilers. Generally
the metropolitan markets. kind enough
to supply me.
1 used to have a very handsome hen
merry and a small book regarding hen
culture, and on a still day after read
ing extensively from the old Greek
poets, 1 might have been seen temper
izing with a sorrel hen and trying to
get her to try sedentary pursuits. In
the fall I had Matched, by means of my
new incubator and the aid of friends,
among them the teacher who boarded
at our house, ei~ghty-seven dear little
downy chicks, at an expense Of 1913,
had just figured up the cost and as
sets when one of my incubators in the