The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-14
TEETH OF ROYALTY.
THEY ARE BAD, AND THEREBY HANG
SOME INTERESTING TALES.

American Dentistry, Mixed With DipIo-
macy and Intrigue-The Part Played by
DIR. Evans-How Lord Cromer Got Hold
of the Khedive's Secrets.
European royalty is cursed with exc
cradle teeth, the result of consanguineous
marriages throughout countless genera
tions, and even the princes of the reign
ing house of Sweden, who are of plebeian
origin, the grandfather of the present
king having been born as peasant at
Pau, ON the French slope Of the Pyrenees,
suffer from barred teeth, necessitating
much science and skill in treatment. 1t
is only natural therefore that they should
have frequent recourse to dentists, and
inasmuch as dental surgery has attained
a greater degree Of science and pro-
ficiency in the United States than in Eu-
rope, it is American doctors, as a rule,
who have been intrusted with the well
fare of royalty's jaws.
Perhaps the best known and most IA
NOUS of all these American court den
fists in Europe has been DR.. Thomas
Evans in Paris, who has had the honor
of introducing his forceps into almost
every royal mouth in Christendom.
But perhaps the crowned heads with
whom he was most intimate during his
professional career We're Napoleon Ill
and Empress Eugene. Many time he
was consulted by both on matters of i'm
portance which certainly had nothing to
do with teeth, while the emperor would
frequently avail himself of the doctors
professional trips to foreign courts to in
trust him with some communication
which could not we'll be conveyed
through diplomatic channels. And, as
everybody knows, when the empire was
overthrown, after the battle of Sedan, it
was DR.. Thomas Evans, who, first Of
all, concealed the fugitive empress in his
Partisan mansion, and afterward con-
veyed her at personal risk from the me-
tropolis to the seaside, whence she es-
capped to England on the yacht Of Sir
John Burgoyne.
There was an American dentist who
was implicated in the somewhat sensa-
UlOudl 1uClSltAto tlltiU 4C1 W ULO
removal of the semidemented queen of
Roumania from Venice few years ago.
After the .Roumanian government had
exacted from the king, under threat of
depriving him of his throne, promise to
put an end to the engagement which
the queen had arranged between her
nephew, Crown Prince Ferdinand, and
her ambitious favorite and maid of hon
or, Helen Vacarescu, her majesty had
withdrawn, prey to the most violent
excitement, to Venice, where her con-
duct became so extravaganza as to attract
much attention and to necessitate the
journey post haste Of King Charles all
the way from Bucharest to the city of
the lagoon.
His first step on arriving was to dis
miss her entire encourage, the two most
prominent members of which, next to
the maid of honor, were her Alsatian
secretary, M. Scheffer, and her Ameri-
can dentist, both of whom were credit
ed with exercising influence of hyp-
motto nature upon the half crazy queen.
She was subsequently removed to Ger
many and kept for three years under
close restraint in one of the Rhine cas-
ties of her brother, the Prince Of WED.
1t was another American dentist, too,
who almost led to the deposition of the
late king of Wurttemberg, over whom he
had acquired so great power of persua-
sion that the king cut himself adrift
from almost all the associations of his
younger days, holding aloof from rela-
tives and mobiles. The king was finally
compelled to choose between dismissing
his American favorite or abdicating.
Naturally he accepted the former, but
he gilded up the pill for his friend by
overwhelming him with honors and
gifts.
Finally there was the American den
fist of the late Khedive Tewfik at Cairo,
who, perhaps inadvertently, became the
means of communicating many useful
piece of information to the English gov
eminent. The khedive had the habit of
leaving all confidential documents in his
pockets, where they would be found by
his European servant at nighttime. This
man was afflicted not only with bad
teeth, but also with loose tongue, and
ON his visits to the dentist would COM
municate to him bits of information &C
quired through perusal of these papers.
Although Lord Cromer, the English
envoy, had magnificent teeth, yet they
seemed to be in almost daily need of
treatment, and as he is man Of remark
able astuteness he had little difficulty in
worming out of the dentist the secrets
impaired by the khedive's valet. Chi
cago Record.