The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-10
a SOCIETY BRIDES ANGUISH.
She Swallowed Her False Teeth, Which
Her Husband Thought Were Real.
From the New York Herald.


From the New York Herald
She should have told him about them
before he became her husband, but she
was weak and proud, too, and-well, she
simply couldn't.
She heard him swear again and again
that she was perfection, that there was
nothing false about her, and, though she
shuddered at loves unwilling perjury and
thought involuntarily of those upper teeth
Of hers-pearls pendant from a roof Of
gold, but store teeth all the same-she
was silent.
They were married only few weeks
ago, but still she deferred confession, in
tending-oh, fatal hesitancy ito tell him
some day when they knew each other bet
ter, when the honeymoon had become a
memory.
These were no ordinary pearls. They
were the swagger article and had cost
$3.50. But they played her false, and be-
cause they, like their owner "moved" in
an exclusive set" the grief of it is all
the greater.
They were a dentists masterpiece, but
and here's the moral-she did not re-
move them when she slept, and at the
dawning they were gone and she was
choking because Of them and hysterical
at the horror of what she knew must
follow.
A skilled surgeon fshed them out and
held them triumphantly before the eyes
of her husband. but the unhappy man
gave no glad cry of recognition. In his
had hidden hers. The skilled surgeon
looked from one to the other, read at a
glance what had been written here at the
beginning, put up his fishing apparatus,
stole away and left them alone in that
silence with the treacherous teeth be-
tween them.
shoULD PROVE A WANING.
This dreadful thing happened yester-
day morning, and although DIR. F. A.
ternberg, of No l 1863 Lexington avenue,
who saved her life at the sacrifice of her
pride, will not reveal her name, he
deemed it wise yesterday to tell the story
and may lessen the number of those who
court death nightly by sleeping with their
store teeth in their mouths.
The victim of yesterdays horror-the
chief victims Mrs. M. DIR. Stern
berg would not tell more than that about
her, except that she lives in upper Madi-
son avenue, is of aristOcratic family, was
married but few weeks ago, and has fig
ured extensively at many "swagger" so
cial functions, notably the charity ball.
DR.. Sternberg was summoned yesterday
morning. He found Mrs. M speech
less and hysterical About her were her
husband and dozen frenzied friends and
relatives The surgeon knew at glance
that she had swallowed something and
that it was lodged in the esophagus. He
warned Mrs. M not TO attempt to
swallow at the risk Of her life. She nod
ded assent.
Then he asked il any one could guess
the nature of the obstruction. No one
could. That was the fatal moment. Had
any one taken the surgeon aside and
whispered in his ear the fearful huso band
might have been lured away and-but it
was not TO be-
Action, instant action was imperative
| The patient was growing worse. DR..
Sternberg inserted a finger in the pa
TENTS mouth. The intruding digit en-
countered lower teeth only. The upper
set had vanished.
Then DIR. Sternberg knew that the case
was serious. Without a word of teeth ne
told the husband that esophagotamy
might be necessary and that the opera
ton was one attended by considerable
| danger That added horror TO the situa-
ton and the surgeon consented TO exhaust
all other means first.
DRAGGED THE TEETH OUT.
He produced a hollow rod Of rubber
with a cercle Of stin hair near the lower
end. The hair increased the circumfer-
ence Of the instrument very slightly, but
when the surgeon touched a spring at the
other end Of the rod the brlsties stood out