The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-11


well, it's a long story.
"a bad tooth started it ALL and, like
everything else, it has a woman at the
bottom Of i'll mean the story, Of
course. I've been spending my time at
the 125th street branch of the Suoerba
Painless Dental Parlors, with the ex-
ception of a single visit to their down
town emporium near Battery Place
It all happened this way:
''One day three months ago I woke
up with one of those toothaches that
make you wonder how one small tooth
can hold it all. I started for the den
fist.
"On my way through 125th street to
the elevator my attention was sudden
ly drawn to a majestically uniformed
race problem delivering a monologue in
even, sonorous tones to no one in par
ticular.
De Superba Painless Dental Par
lors,' he droned forth. Suspension
bridge an triple crown wohk a
spechulty. Absolutely no pain. Ebery
film strictly guaranteed. Vas, sub.
De Superba-
Hold on a second I said, inter
rupting him. IS this game on the
level?'
1.-THE race problem did not change ex-
preston.
mo, sub. One fight up. De su-
perba Painless Dental
"An extra throb of my tooth Just
then decided me. rushed up the mar
row stairs and burst through the door.
"'You wish to see the dentist. sir?'
"Say you talk about your uncrowned
queens, dazzling visions of loneliness
and all that sort Of Honest, old
man, I never dreamt there were such
creatures on this earth. Eyes that
would dim the morning star; hair that
would tarnish virgin gold snow white
teeth by dentists buzzer undefiled-
But how can mere words describe her?
"'You wish to see the dentist, STRIP
she repeated in tones that had music
beaten to a pulp for soothing savage
breasts. My toothache had fed before
her charms.
'why-er, did, stammered, but
Err
Then won't you be seated, please.
He'll be at liberty in Just a moment
$50 obediently followed her gesture
toward a leather bench, and took a seat
between a baldheaded man who emit
ted groans and a Chinaman with a
swollen cheek.
"At the end of an hour I became
fidgety, and decided not to wait. But
just as I started to rise the cashier
my divinity, I had found, was cashier
smiled me back on the settee with Just
a moment longer, sir
"a moment? I'd have stayed through
all eternity after that smile. How
ever, I didn't have to wait that long.
AT the end of another hour I was ush-
cred into the end booth. The cashier
followed
Now, you know she said sweet
ly, it's a rule of the company, just as
matter of precaution in exceptional
cases. you know. that a patient must
make a small deposit. Now, would,
say, S. be satisfactory? With, say, 81
each sitting after that until the ball
ance is aaid?'
81 protested that I didn't think I'd
really require more than one sitting,
dentist soon convinced me of my error.
1t seems that the tooth that ached
would have to have new tooth built
around the cavity before the cavity
could be filed. After this the dentist
thought that coronation would be
strongly advisable.
Another tooth would need extrac-
ton. In addition to all this, he dis
covered that all the gold filings al
ready in my mouth were loose. Just
to show me, he yanked them out and
placed them on his tray
This fact, reinforced by a smile from
the cashier, convinced me that I was
in for a long siege of it, So I paid
my V and signed a contract in which
I was the party of one part and the
Superba Painless Dental Parlors. per
my divinity, the cashier, the party of
the other part.
1.-THE dentist suggested that. as I had
so mitch to be done, it might be we'll
to4 leave it till my next sitting. when
We would have more time. A smile
from Charlotte hated that dentist
for presuming to use her first name
made this seem plausible.
so minus SIS and six gold filings, I
concluded my first sitting at the Su
perba Painless Dentist Parlors.
'At my next sitting the dentist pull
ed my tooth. 1t wasn't exactly pain
less operation, but it might have been
worse If it hadn't been for Charlotte's
smile and dash of cocaine, L suppose.
1T happened they were exceptionally
busy that day, too, so we decided to
wait until next time before we measur-
ed the tooth that was to be crowned.
Two dollars and one tooth were all it
cost me that trip.
Next time we measured. Two dol
lars more. The time after that we
found we'd lost the measure. Also two
dollars. Fifth sitting: Remeasured,
two dollars. And so it went on.
But what did I care? I'd been call
ing Charlotte by her first name ever
since the eighth sitting, and her smile
grew sweeter every time. I'd have let
'em fit spectacles to my eye-teeth soon
er than miss Charlotte's smile.
Finally. there came the saddest blow
in all my sad young life. One day
when I went to the Superba ParlOrS for