The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-11-06
TEETH OF ROYALTY.
THEY ARE BAD, AND THEREBY HANG
SOME INTERESTING TALES.

American Dentistry. Mixed with DplO-
macy and Intrigue-The Part Played by
Dr. Evans How Lord Cromer Got Bold
CT the Khedive's Secrets.
European royalty is cursed with exc
cradle teeth, the result of consanguineuus
marriages throughout countless genera
tions, and even the princes IF 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 skin in treatment. 1t
is only natural therefore that they should
have frequent recourse to dentists, and
inasnuch as dental surgery has attained
a greater degree of science and pro
ficiency in the United States than III Eu-
rope, it is American doctors, as a rule,
who have been intrusted with the vel
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 honor
of introducing his foTceps into almost
every royal mouth in ChristendOm.
But perhaps the crowned hsHAS with
whom he was most intimate &VaMg his
professional career We're Napoleon III
ard Empress Eugene. 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
professional trips to foreign courts 10 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, it
was DR.. Thomas Evans who, first Of
all, concealed the fugitive empress in his
Parisian mansion, and afterward 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 scnsa-
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
exacted from the king, under threat of
depriving him of his throne, a 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 NacureScu, her majesty had
withdrawn, prey TO the most violent
excitement, to Venice, where her CON
duct became soe1;rayagant as to attract
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Journey post haste of King Charles all
the way from Bucharest to tho city of
the lagoon
His first step on arriving was to dis
miss her entire encourage, the two most
prominent members of which, neAU to
the maid Of honor. Were her Alsatian
secretary, NJ Sclle11er, and her Ameri-
cam dentist, both OF whom We're credit
ed with exercising influence IF hvp-
notic nature upon the h0i crazy queen
She was subsequently removed to Ger
many ana 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 WWttemberg, 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 Gbdicating
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 Khcdive Tewfik at Cairo,
who, perhaps inadvertently, became the
means of communicating many 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.
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
Remarkable RhyminG Epitaphs.
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