The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-11-07
TEETH OF ROYALTY.
THEY ARE BAD, AND THEREBY HANG
SOME INTERESTING TALES.

American Dentistry. Mixed With DiplO-
macy and Intrigue-The Part Played by
DIR. Eyans-HOw Lord Cromer Got Hold
of the Khcdive's Secrets.
European royalty is cursed with exc
cradle teeth, the result of consanguincous
marriages throughout countless genera
tions, and even the princes Of the reign
ing house of Sweden. who are of plcLeian
origin, the grandfather of the present
king having been born as a peasant ut
Pau, on the French slope of the Pyrcnces,
suffer from barred teeth, ncccssitating
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
fciency in the United States than i'll Eu-
rope, it is American doctors, as rule,
who have been intrusted With the wei
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 hCaCr
of introducing his forccps into almost
every royal mouth i'll Christeii;lom-
But perhaps the crowned heads with
whom he was most intimate drag his
professional career We're Napoleon III
and Empress Eugenie Many time he
was consulted by both on matters of i'm
portance which certainly had nothing 10
do with teeth, while the emperor would
frequently avail himself Of the doctor
professional trips To foreign courts 70 in
trust him with some communication
which could not well he conveyed
through diplomatic channels. And, us
everybody knows, when the empire was
overthruwn. after the battle of Sedan, il
was DR.. Thomas Evans. who, first of
all, concealed the fugitive empress in his
Partisan mansion. and aftcrNard con
veyed her at personal risk from the me
tropolis to the seaside, whence She cs
capped to England on the yacht of Sir
John Burgoyne.
There was an American dentist who
was implicated III the somewhat sciIsa-
tional incidents that led to the sudden
removal of the senidemcnted 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. Il promise to
put an end 10 the engagement which
the queen had arranged between her
nephew, Crown Prince Ferdinand, and
her ambitions fav0rite and m;.:d Of hon
or, Helen Vacarescu, her majesty h&d
withdrawn, 4 prey 10 the Inast violent
excitement, to Venice, Where hc- con
duct became SO eXtrdvagant as to attract
much attention and 20 ncceSSitatc 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, We're her Alsatian
secretary, NJ. Sch, fer, and her Ameri-
can dentist both of whom We're credit
ed with exercising influence II a 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 Wurttembcrg, over whom he
had acquired so great Il 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 ilonors and
gifts
Finally there was the American den
tiSt of the late Khedive Tewfik at Cairo,
who. perhaps inadvertently, became the
means of communicating many a useful
piece of information to the English gov
ernment The khedive had the habit OF
leaving all confidential documents i'll his
pockets, where they would be found 10y
his European servant ut 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 ac-
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 a 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