The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-14
7HE DENTIST AT lSPAHAN.
-.orH BILL THREATENS BROTH
m OF THE SHAH or PERSIA.
-, Michael Wagschal. Who Fitted Masud
With Four Sets OF Cleaning worries.
employs . Lawyer. Who VIII Try 10
..Sh.Ie Down. the Eastern POtentate.

mr. Michael Wabsch~' WIN 'N'e" "ss""
with Four Sets OF Cleaning worries.
Employs . Lawyer. Who VIII Try TO
.Sh,ke Down" the Eastern P0tentate.
III. ROYAL Highness Masud Nles-Sultan.
hro,her OF Muzafier-ed Din, Shah OF Persia.
!. soon to receive to~>a bill from the
IAN John Tyler, American Committeeman
=, Teberan and, unless his Highness
rromptly orders the keeper Of the royal
rold dust to pony up, his Highness is to be
solsd before Cadi and there shaken down.
A, least. this is what Lawyer Winstock says
Is going to happen.
fawyer Winstock's client Ia DR.. Michael
Warschal, sometime practising dentist in
Austria, America, Russia, Siberia, Persia,
,rdia. China, Japan, now in New York and
en- to start for Egypt. This dental bird
,assape picked up his royal claim during
, soiourn in Persia about eight years ago.
,re WAS practising in Teheran, with large
cl,.ntape In the European colony, when
.omething went wrong with the dental
naraphernalla Of his Highness Masud
Tiles Sultan, who was the governor OF
province with 1spahan as its capital.
Masud, who had heard thing or two
n, the outside world, wanted to 60 to Paris
,or treatment. But his father, Nasr-ed-Din,
who WAS then Shah, and knew thing or
two, remarked:
NAV, nav, my boy. Treatment in Paris
i. ant to last too long. You must be looked
after here
so DR.. Wagschnl was sent for.
Nr'S la
a, Ispahan he found AIasud in an ugly
temper. Many Of his teeth were gone. and
tho rest were going, and they all ached.
nched, ached all day and all night. The
doctor also found that Masud had forty
wives in his harem.
DR.. wagschal Immediately saw that all
lie remaining teeth would have to go, but
when he told his Highness what he in
tended TO do, there were strenuous obJec-
llons.
4 sent for you to fix my teeth. not to take
away from me the few have left
Then the doctor explained that when
he got all the old teeth cut he would make
beautiful, shiny new ones that would not
ache.
The forceps vera attached to the first
molar and out it CAME also howl. Then
Dr. Wagschal started for. the next tooth;
but his Highness waved him off for several
DAYS. But at last after seven weary months
Of coaxing, the doctor had the royal gums
toothless. Then, when the period Of heal
ing was over, the doctor inserted beautiful
sci made OF the whitest and shiniest enamel,
and led his Highness before a mirror.
Instantly he broke out into peals Of
laughter Turning to the doctor. he slapped
him on the back and cried Bravo, bravo,
you are indeed an artist" Then he ran
r. H. l. Il, 49, ,,,tx hot hn ~
rejuvenated. The next day he ordered
the doctor to make him three more sets.
When these were completed, he was 30
ticked with his ability to change his teeth
as often "a he did his clothes that he called
his grand vizier and ordered him to draw
up royal decree which, translated, reads:
To Waoschal. nv dentist
accord you the privilege to travel wher-
ever you Ike to practise your profession.
We agree. whenever / want, you must come
to attend on me, salary Of 200 toman
per yeST t 10 9m send ns or s4 yo WON
must attend to me. TILES, sultan.
This was presented to DR.. Wagschal,
and he was also decorated with the royal
fez Then Masud's father, the Shah, was
assassinated, and the doctor was obliged
10 fly by night ON camel back. He reached
Bushir, on the Persian Gulf, and from there
sailed for Bombay.
a toman is about 81, Masud now owes the
doctor $500. Since then the doctor has
not returned to Persia, but regularly every
wear he has written to Masud, notifying him
Of his whereabouts and asking that his an
nual pension OF 200 toman be forwarded.
His Highness, however. serene In the pos
session Of four fine sets Of teeth that can
not ache, has not paid the slightest attention
70 the Doctors repeated requests to please
forward
So DR.. wagschal has employed Lawyer
Winstock, who Is going to see what he can
,o about it. He admits. though. that this
business OF collecting from royalty. and
r,s.ern rovaItyat that ia a difficult problem