The Huttig news., 1910-12-03
That Hollow
 Tooth
By CLYDE ARNOLD

come college graduate was only natural, but that he should take the course in dentistry and plan to set up in the profession was an enigma to his friends and source of vexation to bis widowed mother. "I wouldn't say anything about law or surgery she would argue. "I wouldn't mind even if you were a nat uralist and went poking about after snakes and bugs. If you had gradu- ated as philosopher l think I could have stood 1t. but dentistry, Paul dentistry!"
 My dear mother, where would you have got the half dozen false teeth in your mouth, but for dentistry?" he would reply.
 But. society, Paul!"
 T know that there are very few dentists in society. Society doesn't invite him to it's dinners and recep- tions because he alone knows how many false teeth 1t has,"
 The most the young man would promise was that his sign should sim ply bear the word Dentist" He could have furnished parlors in the city, but to the joy of the mother he went 20 miles afield and hung out his sign in suburban village. Three months passed and MT Paul Chatter ton had not had a patient
 However, all things come to him who waits. whether he is a states man or dentist. A patient came to MT. Paul Chatterton. He was out with fishing rod one day. mile or from town, and on his way back to change that sign to: Come Right h., when he heard an auto coming up be- hind him and then womans screams. AS he wheeled about. the machine ran across the road and into bank. The dentist ran back to find girl with her jaw tied up. He couldn't be sure whether she was an old maid or fair young girl, but she was in distress, and that was enough
 As for the chauffeur, there was no doubt about him. He was a young man. He was even too much intox icated to talk. He was taken by the back of the neck and lifted down and deposited on the grass, and then the dentist took his seat, backed the ma chine into the road and asked:
 Am right in thinking you were bound for the village?"
 Yes, sir," answered a girls voice.
 Then I will see you safely there Your chauffeur Is not exactly we'll. Will 1t be to the depot?"
 No, sir. I want to go to a dentist"
 "Oh. Case of toothache?"
 "The worst kind. I've had 1t two days and nights. My jaw is all swol- len up Mother was coming with me, but some company came at the last moment
 The dentist tried to get a better look at the girl beside him. He liked the voice, and he liked the half of the face he could make out. He was all so pleased with the jaunty hat and the brown hair under it.
 Will you go to Dentist Roberts" ?" he asked as they proceeded at a slow pace.
 Mercy, no! Why, he almost pulled a girls head off once!"
 Then to Dentist Brown?"
 No. He's savage as a meat-ax. I want to go to the new dentist. I have never seen him, but girl friend told me he had dreamy blue eyes. and that she didn't believe he would hurt any, body. My brother Sam has dreamy blue eyes, and you couldn't get him to kill fly. Oh, forgot to say that 1 am Miss Lottie Morton. We live back there In the house on the hill"
 Miss Lottie Morton was so taken up with her toothache that she thought nothing of his unlocking the office door and changing the signs It was only when she had climbed in to the chair and he had removed the bandage from her jaw that she sat up and said:
 Why. the new dentist-where is her"
 I'm he, I'm going to be very gen tie and sympathetic
 Its so funny"
 II was an ulcerated tooth. There was hollow for the air to strike down on live nerve. The jaw was gently bathed for a time, and when the tooth was examined the patient was told that nothing could be done until a poultice had reduced the swell ling. She must come again in three days. As the dentist had no pressing work on hand, he would act as chauf- feur to get her home safely. With his own hands he replaced the band age, and by the time 1t had been ac- complished he realized tbat his words to his mother might come true.
 It was queer about that tooth. It wasn't such big tooth, and you couldn't have put a hickory nut in the hollow. but Miss Lottie had to return again and again Each time she found the dentist more gentle and sympathetic. As she related it at home. not one single "yank" had he ever given her brown head. And the den tist got in the habit of calling at the house on the hill to see if the tooth was all right, and the widowed mother