The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-15
TEETH OF ROYALTY.
THEY ARE BAD, AND THEREBY HANG
SOME INTERESTING TALES.

American Dentistry, Mixed With Diplo-
macy and Intrigue-Tho Part Played by
Dr. Evnns-How Lord Cromer Got Hold
OF tho Khctive's Secrets.
European royalty is cursed with exc
crablo teeth. tho result Of consanguineous
marriages throughout countless genera
tions, and even the princes of tho reign
Ing house Of Sweden, who arc of plebeian
origin. tho grandfather Of the present
king having been born rs peasant ut
Pau, on tho French slope Of tho Pyrenees,
suffer from barred teeth, neoessitating
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
q greater degree Of science and pro-
ficiency in the United States than in Eu-
rope, it is American doctors, as n rule,
who have been intrusted with the vel
fare Of royalty's jaws
Perhaps the best known and most fI-
nous of all these American court den
fists in Europe has been DR.. Thomas
Evans in Paris, who has had tho honor
of introducing his foroeps into almost
SNClC AOJu1 UfOul1 Ill NIrlStIIDQOIQ-
But perhaps the crowned heads with
whom he was most intimate during his
professional career wcre Napoleon III
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 tho emperor would
frequently avail himself Of tho 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 tho 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 ut personal risk from the me-
tropolis to tho seaside, whence sho cs-
capped to England on tho yacht Of Sir
John Burgoyne.
There was IN American dentist who
WIS implicated in the somewhat sensa-
tional incidents that led to tho sudden
removal of the semidemented queen of
ROumania from Venice few years ago.
After tho Rounanian government had
exacted from the king, under threat of
depriving him of his throne, a promise to
put an end to tho 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withdrawn.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 40 eXtravagant as to attract
oil rs EnA -.
journey post haste of King Charles all
tho way from Bucharest to tho city of
tho 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, NJ. Schcffcr, and her Ameri-
can dentist, both of whom were credit
cd with exercising influence of hyp-
motto nature upon tho 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 tho deposition of tho
late king of Wrrttemberg, over whom he
had acquired so great Il power of pcrsua-
sion that tho king cut himself adrift
from almost all the associations of his
younger days, holding aloof from rela-
tives and mobiles. Tho king was finally
compelled to choose between dismissing
his American favorite or abdicatinp.
Naturally he accepted the former, but
he gilded up tho pill for his friend by
overwhelming him with honors and
gifts
Finally there was tho American den
fist of the late Khcdive Tewfilz at Cairo,
who, perhaps inadvertently, became the
means OF communicating many useful
piece of information to the English gov
ernment The llhedive had the habit Of
leaving all confidential documents III his
pockets, where they would be found by
his European servant mt nighttime. This
man was afflicted not only with bad
teeth, but also with q loose tongue, and
on his visits to tho dentist would COM
municato 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 khedivo's valet Chi
cago Record
Remarkable Rhyning Epitaphs.