The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-14
LIVE TIMES IN
l THE DENTISTS CHAIR
And Five Times OCT Of IA
Nsrvous Mans Attempt to Have
His Teeth Fixed.

Why, they're the men VINO ARRANGE 70 nav.
their teeth nxed. get into the chair. become
panicstricken at the flrst sight OF the den
lists tools, jump up, grab their hats and
then incontinently m everlastingly run
for Il.
This bolter made his fifth unaway chi.
afternoon. And I thought I had him TODAY
sure. His face wore q look Of the grtmmest
determination when he came in.
IF 1 get stampeded to-day and start to
run I want you to shoot me like a dog, sir
he said to me, sternly and without a symp-
tom OF a smile. Nor are you to accept any
ex cuse whatever. Remember that. want
this job started and I'm going to have il
started
Then he got into the chair, hanging on 10
himself hard, evevy muscle stretched and
tense with determination.
THE first part OF the job was to be sons
drilling. I adjusted a drill and switched on
the current to start the drill going. NV
bolter was regarding me through the sHtS
Of his eyes, and then I saw the cold. tallowy
drops beginning to bead on his forehead.
Just as I got the drill TO burzzins nv
telephone bell rang, My man in the chair
sat UP suddenly.
BY ginger!' he exclaimed, that bell
reminds me. / promised to see that fellow
at 8 O'Clock, and here it's ten minutes past
Q nowl and he bounded out OF the chair
and grabbed his hat OF the rack.
Here, wait a minute 1 called after him
as he leaped for the door. You told me,
you know, not TO accept n excuse---'
Can't help what l said, young man.
he said hoarsely, with his hand on the knob,
III call you up and make another appoint
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the door and dow the hall at a canter.
That, as / say, was the fifth time this
bolter jumped me.
He came in and made arrangements
for the overhauling OF his teeth more than
a non & o
Want to start at once-to-morrow
afternoon, IL thatTl be handy for you,' he
said. Want to get the blamed thing on
my mind. What time tomorrow after
noon can you begin TO butcher meY'
H turned up on the following afternoon.
pallid and sad, at 3 o'clock. He's an elderly.
military looking man with white hair and
snowy mustache. He served all through
the civil war, I'm told, and was under fire
SCORES OF times.
when he got into the chair l began 10
fiddle around and sort out my tools, acci-
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Of some Of the worst looking Of them. 70
as to try out his nerve. He looked the
tools over out Of the tail OF his eve and [
saw his hest begin to heave.
BY smoker he suddenly gasped. and
l hadn't put a hand on him yet, understand,
that rheumatism in my arm is positively
brutal this afternoon. I'm in no shape
this afternoon to have You start OF with
Vnry 4Aath . and ha -raa a-k - A. ab.!- -
reaching for his hat. I'll ring you up in
a day or so, when his internal arm stops
jumping, and have you make mother APP
p~ointment with me- and away he went
like q mar hustIing for a train on a fifteen
second margin.
"A week later, after calling me I'D on
the phone, he came again.
Feeling good to-day?' 1 asked him.
"'Finel' he replied, heartily. Immense.
Tip-top. Want to get this COMPOUNDED
thing going, too. while 1 am feeling SO
good
then he climbed into the chair. and I
began feeling around with the pick among
some Of III teeth that needed filing.
While 1 was doing that there was A
hight rap on the door leading into the re-
ception room. 1 opened the door and a
woman whose teeth l was attending 10
stood there.
Doctor she said to me. If YOU can't
begin on me within the next ten minutes
l shall not be able to have a sitting to-day,
for l must meet some friends at the train
in an hour, and
My bolter was out OF the chair and al
M side in two strides.
Doctor he said, with a courtly bow
for the lady, i willingly surrender my
time to this lady. ! couldn't think Of in
terfering with the plans Of a lady, and
before she could murmur a word Of re-
fusal Of his generous offer or / could stick
in any kind Of suggestion he was gone.
L next time l got him i cOntrived
TO get a rubber impression Of his teeth,
but when that part Of il was over he was
pretty nervous and fidgety.
Before you do anything else he said
to me. 1 hin I'll run out and get a drink
to sort OF quiet my nerves. and he got
out OF the chair n took his hat from the
rack; b right back in a minute
But l said to him, I've got some
fine old bourbon here and carbonic water
TO 60 with it. and
Bourbon = he shifted, disdainfullv.
Much obliged. doctor, but l never touched
a drop OF bourbon in my lfe-can't abide
even the smell Of it. Rye for mine. BE
right back and out he went.
y course he didn't ret1rn. and it was
more than a week before / was called up
again by MN to make another appoint
ment.
He came at half past . the next day.
and l was clawing away at a bad crown
on one Of his lower teeth that had 70 he
removed when he grabbed my wrist and
pulled my working hand away from his
face. and then he sat up with a start.
BY JONAH he calculated, I clean for
got to draw a cent out Of the bank. and
here 1t ~ close on to 8 4 o'clock and / haven't
even got carfare with me, and ! forgot 70
get those theatre seats for my wife. TOO.
and II / don't hustle for the hank I'll have
TO walk home. by crickets, and - and
he was galloping down the corridor like
somebody running after a street car.
AND then he turns up to-day and the sound
OF the buzzing drill stampedes him once
more. and he seizes upon the tinkling ~
the telephone bell to rig up that whopper
about the man he had to meet because Is
meant money for him.
Sooner or later, Of course. he'll stick.
His wife will keep right on bullying him
about his teeth. I don't know how dentists
make a living il il weren't for the
omen.
Women, Of course, nave about four
the nerve Of men when II comes 20
enduring pain. Every surgeon, ana cer-
tainly every dentist, is familiar with this