The evening world., 1894-03-22
AGED FOLKS WHO CUT TEETH.
They Seemed to Have Been Numer-
Gus in Ye OIden Time.

1t is told OF an Irish woman that she
cut an incisor tooth when seventy-tive
years old 1t being confirmed hallucina-
ton of hers that she had been dead.
and was reborn, and must pass through
the common infantile career. teething,
collie, &c. Another old woman. Mrs.
Fursell, of Acton, says the Philadel-
phta Press, cut an entirely new set OF
teeth at the ripe age Of eighty. after
having been many years toothless. Dur
ing the last century a Scotch woman
named Margaret White cut eight teeth
In the eishty-seventh year OF Der age.
Southwark, after being toothless from
seventy to ninety. cut several new teeth.
So much for rejuvenated teethtng peri
ods of women, and the men to whom hfs-
tory gives prominence for senile teething
were less fortunate. since the Rev. sam
uel CroXall, translator of Aesop's Fa-
castoned by the pain Of cutting new
set OF teeth at the age OF ninety-three.
And Edward Prosers, aged ninety-six.
died in l7l3 ,'of the anguish OF cutting
teeth, he having cut four new teeth, and
had several ready to cut, which so in
famed his gums that he died thereof"
There. is a story which may be taken
for what it is worth of a Robert Lyon.
OF Glasgow, cutting a new set of teeth
at lO9. and of James Hoax. of Bel
fast, who, during the reign OF Queen
L lLdDtlu, anu DIT lNe axe OL LIZ, kOl d
new set of teeth which have drove out
all the old stumps."
When Peter Kahn. a Swede, visited
America, about the middle OF the last
century. he observed a frequent loss OF
teeth among the European settlers, and
especially among the women. After dis
cussng and rejecting various theories
70 account for this, he attributed the
fact to the use OF hot beverages and
came to the general conclusion that
hot feeders lose their teeth more read
a -,
opinion OF Carliu, who wrote on the sub
Ject, the teeth of Indians are better than
those of whites. He explains this upon
,he theory that the teeth require moist
from decay, and the red race keep
their mouths shut, while whites are in.
cltned to keep them open. Mr.. Catltr
takes the entire human race to task for
being less sensible in this respect than
the brutes, evidently quite forgetting
the open mouth OF the painting dog
enough to gnaw all the, bones it can get
There are numerous charms. signs and
omens relating to teeth. -,
In some parts OF England 1t is tradt
tional that one who puts on his righ
shoe, stocking or trouser leg before tbs
left will escape toothache,, and tha
the cuttings in paper and wear then
drawn from skull, to drink from q
skull taken from graveyard, or to Gu
off the paw OF a mole which must pre-
viously have been caught in trap, will
all prevent possible toothache. In Nor
folk a toothache-ot all unromantic ills
is called a "love-pain' and the sufferer
Is uncommiserated.
When teeth have little spaces between
them, good luck and travel are In stor,
for the possessor. False teeth probably
date back as far as the Roman Empire
and dentistry has been practised in Eng
land for at least 300 years. Ben johnson
makes character say: "A most viii
face. And yet she spends me $40 a yea,
in mercury and hogs bones. All he
Before the making OF artificial teeth be
came well understood art graves wer,
frequently opened for the express pur
pose of stealing the teeth OF their occu
IlntS