The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-01-17
TEETH OF ROYALTY.
THEY ARE BAD, AND THEREBY HANG
SOME INTERESTING TALES.

American Dentistry, Mixed with DIplO-
macy and Intrigue-The Part Played by
DIR. Evans-HOw Lord CrOmer Got Hold
of the khedIve's Secrets.
European royalty is cursed with exc
cradle teeth, the result of consanguineouS
marriages throughout countless genera.
tions, 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
Pan, 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
inasmuch 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 with the well
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 forceps into almost
every royal mouth in Christendom.
But perhaps the crowned heads with
whom he was most intimate az1Fiag his
professional career were NapS4eCn III
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
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
tropois 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 scnsa-
tional incidents that led to the sudden
removal of the semidemented queen of
ROumania from Venice q 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 Vacarescu, her majesty had
withdrawn, a prey to the most violent
excitement, to Venice, where her CON
duct became so extravagant as to attract
much attention and to necessitate 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, We're her Alsatian
secretary, NJ Scheffer, and her Ameri-
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 Wicd.
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 mobiles The king was finally /
to choose between dismissing /
his American favorite or abdicating. I
Naturally he accepted the former, but
he gilded up the pill for his friend bv
him with honors and |
gifts.
Finally there was the American den
list of the late Khedive Tewfik at Cairo,
who, perhaps inadvertently, became the
means of communicating many a useful
piece of information to the English gov
The khedive had the habit Of
eavlng all confidential documents in his
'ockets, where they would be found by
us European servant at nighttime This
nan was afflicted not only with bad
eeth, but also with loose tongue. and
N his visits to the dentist would com
to him bits of information nc
uired through peruSal Of these papers
Although Lord Cromer, the English
nvoy, had magnificent teeth, vet they
eemed to be in almost daily need Of
reatment, and as he is man of remark
BILE astuteness he had little difficulty in
FORMING out of the dentist the secrets
nparted by the khedive's valet. Chi
ago Record