The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-05-30
TEETH OF ROYALTY.
THEY ARE BAD, AND THEREBY HANG
SOME INTERESTING TALES.

American Dentistry. Mixed with DIplo-
macy and Intri$ue-The Par: Played by
DIR. Evans-Eow Lord Cromer Got Hold
of the Khedive'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 plcbcian
origin, the grandfather of the present
king having been born as a peasant at
Pau, OH the French slope of tine Pyrenees,
suffer from barred teeth, neccssitating
much science and skill in treatment. It
is only natural therefore that they should
have frequent recourse to dentists, and
inasrnuch 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 @ith the vel
fare of royalty's jaws.
Perhaps the best known and most IA
NOUS of all these American court den
fists i'll 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 Eugenie. 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
Il
trust him with some communication
which could not we'll be conveyed
through diplomatic channels And, rs
everybody knows, when the empire WAS
overthrown, after the battle of Sedan. il
was DIR. Thomas Evans. who, first of
all, concealed the fugitive empress in his
P.uisian mansion. and afterward con-
veyed her at personal risk from the me
trupolis to the seaside, whence she cs-
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 70 the sudden
removal of the Scmidemented queen of
Roumania from Venice a few years ago.
After the Roumanian government had
exacted from the king, under threat of
depriving him Of his throne, a promise TO
put an end to the engagement which
the aueen had arranged between her
nephew, Crown Prince Ferdinand, and
her ambitious favorite and maid Of hon
or, Helen Nacarescu, her majesty had
withdrawn, prey to the most violent
excitement, to Venice, where her CON
duct became 50 extravagant rs to attract
much attention and TO necessitate the
journey post haste Of King Charles AL
the way from Bucharest to the city Of
the lagoon.
His first step on arriving was 70 dis
miss her entire encourage, the two most
prominent members OF which. next to
the maid Of honor, We're her AlSatian
secretary, VI. Schc.Ter, and her Amcri-
can dentist, both Of whom were credit
ed with exercising influence of "A hvp-
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 n 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 noblessM The king was finally
compelled TO chodSe between dislniSsing
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
tist of the late Khedive Tewfik nc Cairo,
who perhaps inadvertently, became the
means of communicating many n 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 loose tongue, and
on his visits to the dentist would com
municate to him bits of information ac-
quired through peruSal of these papers.
4 Although Lord Cromer, the English
/ envoy, had magnificent teeth, yet they
I seemed to be in almost daily need Of
I treatment, and as he is a man Of remark
Z able astuteness he had little difficulty in
worming ont of the dentist the secrets
impaired by the khedive's valet-Chi-
cago Record