The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-09-13
TEETH OF ROYALTY.
they ARE BAD. AID THEREBY II ANG
SOME INTERESTING TALES.

American Dentistry. Mixed with DipIO-
macy aud Intrigue-The Part Played By
Dr. Evans How Lord Cromer Got Hold
Of the khedive's Secrets
European royalty is cursed with exc
cr.,blc teeth, the result of consauguineOus
marriages throughout countless genera
tions, and even the princes If the reign
ing house OF Sweden, who are Of plcbcian
origin, the grandfather Of the present
king having been born as peasant at
Pau. on the French slope OF the Pyrcnces,
suffer from barred teeth. ncccSsitating
much science and skill in treatment 1t
is only natural therefore tha; they should
have frequent IeIDGrs- 10 dentists. and
inasnGch 49, GcH:..l s,.:,,,ly has attained
IA greater doE E,e Of scicnce ami pro
lic.cncy IN the United :ia;eS than in Eu-
rope, il is American d,ctorS. a. rule.
who have lyca intrustcd 'sitli the wei
fuc of rnya!ty's jaws.
P,rEal@' ,hc LIST l-ipvn and most Ia
moaS Of all these American court den
fists III Europe haS hccn DR. Thomas
Evans ia P..ris. who has had the honor
of introducing Lis forCcls int almost
every royal mouth in ChriStendum
But perhaps the c;oy,ncd heads with
whom lac w..s most intimate during his
professional career We're Napoleon III
and Empress Eugene. Many time he
was consulted by both on matters Of inn
pOrtauce 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 well be conveyed
through diplomatic channels. And, as
everybody knows, when the empire was
Overthrown, after the battle of sedan. il
was DR.. Thomas Evans, who. first Of
all, concealed the fugitive emp ) in his
Partisan mansion. and afterw;Td con-
veyed her nj personal risk from the me
tropolis to the seaside, whence she as.
capped to England on the yacht Of Sir
John Burgoyne
There was an American dentist who
was implicated in the somewhat scnsa-
tiOnal incidents that led to the sudden
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, Il promise TO
put an end to the engagement which
the queen had arranged between her
nephew, Crown Prince Ferdinand, and
her ambitious favoritc and maid Of hon
or, Helen Vacarescu, her majesty had
withdrawn, a prey to the most violent
excitement, to Venice, where her con
duct became 50 extravagant as to attract
much attention and TO ncceSSitate 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 Als.tian
secretary, NJ. Scheifer, and her Ameri-
can dentist, both of whom We're credit
ed with exercising influence IF hyp-
motto nature upon the hnlf 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 Wied.
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 dem
tist of the late Khedive Tewtik 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 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 u loose tongue, and
OH 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 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