Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1900-12-20
Filling Teeth for Royalty.

John o. Spring recently received two
letters from his son. DR.. William A, Spring
OF Dresden, Germany, which tell OF avery
Undressing experience. The experience
was SO interesting in fact that We give lib
eral extracts b.low. A letter dated No
vember 80 says:
Dear Father 81 am guest of his I'm
psrial and Royal Highness the Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne OF
Austria. This is his paper upon which l
| write and the letters under the crown are
his initials. am here to fill his teeth.
i have treated him and his w.fs fer
some time but this 10 the first time
n have been called to his castle. Count
Clary, the Au trian ambassador to SaxoDy
and some other parts Of Germany, called
upon me and asked me il would come
and gladly sssented, and he wrote out
a paper telling who I was and whom l was
going to treat 90 that should not be dis
turbed at the frontier. As you may easily
believe, the paper worked like:magic. l
am surrounded with every luxury, with so
many servants to wait on me that l cannot
have wish that is not anticipated. One
special man servant in dress suit hiss for
his duty to attend directly to my personal
wants.
A letter dated November 80 says: 1t
is o'clock, the close of delightful
and eventful day. 1 got up at o'clock
and as soon as was dressed my breakfast,
consisting of coffee, bread and butter and
eggs, was served; it is customary in this
country tor people to eat their breakfast in
their own rooms. After breakfast | had
Just time to write one letter when the
gentleman in waiting to the archduke
came to ask if / was ready for my i'm
p rial patient. I assured him that every
lirg was waiting for him so he sppt AIRED
in five minutes. He gave me a hesrty
hand shake. / asked him how he had slept
and he asked me the same. Of course
informed him that had never slept better.
One of my three rooms is 7-sidsd
tower room with four windows and front
OF one of these windows stands my S. S
White portable dental chair, my Doriot
engine and table full Of instruments.
put in, in two hours, two as handsome god
filings as ever put in and was then asked
| it I would like to see the castle. Ee said
he would put me in care of the "Sehloss
Warter,"i e., the person who lives here
the whole year, has the keys, and ha, full
charge when the archduke is away It
was truly wonderful experience. l never
before saw things in such perfect taste.
The room devoted to armor was es-
pecially interesting. Some of the pieces
for men and horses vera inlaid with gold,
and Of course every piece was genuine.
Powder horns and guns and pistols
and swords and daggers, collected from
centuries back, were to be seen. Thous-
ands Of things collected during the arch
dukes trip around the world were also
shown me.
He was in America and has related to
me many things he saw there. He trav-
eled incognlto, but has promised to look
it up in his diary and tell me the name he
used at that time. As you know, it is
quite customary for royalty to travel incog-
ni'o to avoid the ostentation, which would
otherwise be necessary. In order to avoid
discovery he takes different, name each
time. We dined at - 80 sharp. 1 sat
beside his wife, the princess, and three
other gentlemen were present. Four wait
ers in gorgeous attire served. The prin-
cess was always served first, then the arch
duke and then the rest. l never ate
choicer dinner and could not help wonder
ing if such dinners were served to them
every day.
The princess occasionally addressed me
in English which she spoke perfectly but
most of the conversation was in German.
As soon a, dinner was over we arose from
the table and followed our hest and hostess
into the adjoining room where coffee was
served. We were asked to sit down and
were shown beautiful collection of illus
trated postal cards Of the castle and
grounds. There are 80 in all and the
princess has given me o complete ret. OF
course shall not send them in the mail.
| He has six bears enclosed in high, strong
walls. can see them from my windows
and they do look happy. There are
things arranged for them to climb on.
After we had chatted q half hour I was
asked if IIwould like to see the deer park,
to which quickly assented. This seemed
to break up the party for each gentleman
in turn took leave Of host and hostess.
When shaking hands with the hostess they
each bowed low and kissed her hand.
/ did the same. In this country that Gus