The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-05-15
TEETH OF ROYALTY.
THEY ARE BAD, AND THEREBY HANG
SOME INTERESTING TALES.

american OenJlStrys mixed Win Oiplo-
macy and Intrigue-The Part Played by
DIR. Evans-How Lord Cromer Got Hold
of tho Khedive's Secrets.
European royalty is cursed with exc
,rable teeth, the result of consanguineous
marriages throughout countless genera
lions, 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 a 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
lnasmuch as dental surgery has attained
greater degree of science and pro-
Rciency in the United States than in Eu-
rope, it is American doctors, as 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 dem
lists 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 were Napoleon III
and Empress Eugenie. Many time he
was consulted by both on matters of inn
portance which certainly had nothing to
10 with teeth, while the emperor would
frequently avail himself of the Doctors
professional trips to foreign courts TO in
rust him with some communication
which could not we'll be conveyed
through diplomatic channels. And, as
everybody knows, when the empire was
overthrown, after tho battle of Sedan, it
was DR.. Thomas Evans, who, first Of
all, concealed the fugitive empress in his
Partisan mansion, and afterward con-
ceyed 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-
tional incidents that led to the sudden
removal of the semidemented queen of
Roumania from Venice a few years ago.
After the Roumanian government had
sxacted from the king, under threat of
iepriving 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withdrawn.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
sxoitement, to Venice, where her con-
iuct became so extravaganza as to attract
much attention and to neoessitate 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 u. Smbers of VIII iro..saext to
the maid of honor, were her AIsatfan
secretary, M. Scheffer, and her Ameri-
San dentist, both Of whom were credit
I'd with exercising influence of hyp-
notic 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 Wied.
1t was another American dentist, too,
who almost led to the deposition of the
late king of Wurttemberg, over whom he
had acquired 80 great n power of persua-
sion that tho king cut himself adrift
from almost all the associations of his
younger days, holding aloof from rela-
lives and mobiles. The king was finally
compelled to choose between Diminishing
his American favorite or abdicating
Naturally he accepted tho former, but
he gilded up the pill for his friend by
overwhelming him with honors and
gifts
Finally there was the American dem
list of the late Khedive Tewfk at Cairo,
who, perhaps inadvertently, became the
means Of communicating many a useful
piece of information to the English gov
srnment 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-
1uired 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
.ble astuteness he had little difficulty in
worming out Of the dentist the secrets
impaired by tho khedive's valet. Chi
,ago Record.