The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-04-29
TEETH OF ROYALTY.
THEY ARE BAD, AND THEREBY HANG
SOME INTERESTING TALES.

American Dentistry. Mixed with DIpIo-
macy and Intrigue-The Part Played by
Dr. Evans-How Lord Cromer Got Hold
of the khedsye's Secrets.
European royalty is cursed with exc
cradle teeth, the result OF consanguincous
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
Pau, on the French slope Of the Pyrenees,
suffer from barred teeth, necessitating
much science and skill in treatment. Ii
is ONLY natural therefore that they should
have frequent recourse to dentists, and
inasmuch as dental surgery has attained
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 vel
fare of royalty's jaws.
Perhaps the best known and most IA
nous of all these American court deu-
fists in Europe has been DR.. Thomas
Evans in Paris, who has had the honor
VI lulTOOuCAHE IlAn AolNtHAS AuAb iAAAncN
every royal mouth III Christendom.
But perhaps the crowned hs~S1 with
whom he was most intimate 6Er.ng his
professional career We're Napoleon III
and Empress Eugene. Many a time he
was consulted by both on matters Of i'm
portance which certainly had nothing 10
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 well be conveyed
through diplomatic channels And, as
everybody knows, when the empire was
overthrown, after the battle of Sedan, 1t
was DR.. Thomas Evans. who, first of
all, concealed the fugitive empress III his
Parisian mansion, and afterward con-
veved her ut personal risk from the me
tropolis to the seaside, whence she 6.
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 10 the sudden
removal Of the semidemented queen Of
ROumania from Venice 4 few years ago.
exacted from the king, under threat Of
depriving him of his throne, promise to
put an end TO the engagement which
the queen had arranged bctwecn her
nephew. Crown Prince Ferdinand, and
her ambitious favoritc and maid of hon
or, Helen Vacarescu, her majesty haI
withdrawn, u prey 70 the NEST violent
excitement, TO Venice. where her con
duct became so oextrayIgaHt rs To attract
much attention and 70 ncceSSltaJe ,he
journey post haste Of King Charles all
the way from Bucharest 10 the city uf
| the lagoon.
His first step on arriving WAS To dis
miss her entire entoura-,c. t.i' two most
prominent members Of s-hich. neat t1
the maid of honor. were her Aisatian
secretary. NJ Schcfyor. and her Amcri-
can dentist, both of whom were credit
/ ed vsi,h exercising influence If hvp-
notic nature upon TIE half crazy queen
| Size was subsequently removed to Ger,
many and kept for three years under
close restraint in one IF the Rhine cas-
I 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 Wurttenberg, over whom he
/ had acquired so great power of pcrSua-
/ sion that the king cut himself adrift
! from almost all the associations of his
younger days, holding aloof from rrla-
/ tives and mobiles. The king was finally
I compelled to choose between dismiSSing
I his American favorite or abdicating
I Notur.,I I1x- no occapfad tho former buf
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 Tewtik ut Cairo,
who, perhaps inadvertently, became the
means of communicating many a 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
Oh his visits to the dentist would com
4 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 he in almost daily need Of
| treatment, and as he is a man of remark
able astuteness he had little difficulty in
4 worming out of the dentist the secrets
impaired by the khedive's valet.-Chi-
cagO Record
Remarkable RhyminE EpitaPhs.