The Montgomery tribune., 1910-11-25
Perfectly Good
Grievance

her hat TN one side, addressing the
man who sat at the desk writing.
Before he could do more than look
up she had drawn out the chair op-
posite and was looking forward ear.
nestly. II want to say" she BACON,
that DR.. Pribble, two blocks down
the street, may be a particular friend
of yours for all | know, but he ought
to have his diploma taken away from
him and the police ought to shut up
his Office before more innocent, un-
because he has a smile like Cheshire
cat and looks as though he passed the
plate every Sunday, though I don't
believe he ever saw the inside of
church, let alone being trusted with
any of the money. Though, to be
sure, you don't look as though you'd
be taken in by that sort of thing and
of business, you hate each other like
poison and are only too glad to get
customer away"
L" began the man at the desk
with his pen still held at a surprised
angle of forty-five degrees
"Just let me tell you what he did to
mel" interrupted the woman with the
sharp chin, hitching her chair nearer
while her eyes snapped.
I've always gone to DR.. Temmeck
about my teeth" she rushed on, him
being married to a second cousin of
mine and needing the money, because
they have six children, and II two of
'em hadn't died from scarlet fever
no, it was diphtheria-niy memory's
rot bit of good since / had all this
trouble with DR.. PTibble-they'd have
eight, and what on earth they'd feed
'em on when things cost so much
breakfast food, too, which is filling-T
don't know, so that it's lucky they
lost two. I'd a gone to DR.. Temmeck
this time, only Susie, the next to the
Oldest girl, got lung trouble and they
all had to move out west, and land
knows what I'd have done If Mrs.
Levitt in the fiat below hadn't told
me to go to DR.. Pribble, she's nice
woman and all that, but"
L" got in the man at the desk
again, but she swept on
Every last thing I had the matter
with my teeth" Indignantly declared
the client. was an ache in a wisdom
tooth and a small filling needed in the
next one. for If amt a dentist
they're my own teeth, and l guess l
ought to know better how they feel
than any one else, If he has got franz
ed diplomas so thick on the wall you
can't see it. hadn't II"
why, if"
81 knew you'd agree with mel" in
terrupted the woman with the sharp
chin. HE just thought I was easy
and he told me they'd both have to be
crowned, and me expecting to order
my winter suit the next week and, of
course, If l had to pay for crowns l
couldn't. But nobody wants to have
her cheeks fall in and there he was
with his smile and thought he knew
it all, SO he crowned 'em and l paid
him on the spot l suppose you do it
the same way, but l must say of all
the filing and saving and pounding
to get two perfectly good teeth-ex-
needed-out of the way / never saw
the like! 1t was like having powder
mine explode in my mouth. and him
a-purrin' and murmurin, Just min
ute, now, just min-ute!' l thought
he'd murder me before Ire got through,
and | couldn't bite down on 'em nat
ural at all, and him saying it'd be all
right when ! got used to EN-! If"
will you please" broke in tho
man at the desk with worried
frown.
"And the sewing society met the
next day." proceeded the woman with
the sharp chin, emphatically. "and
while, of course, it's for charity, we
do have the incest refreshments. You
never saw such nut sandwiches as
Mollie Hess makes, though pity who
ever marries her, because she can't
cook another living blessed thing, and
goodness knows no man wants to live
on nut sandwiches all his life! Well,
with everyone looking at me | bit
down hard on my sandwich and bit
a piece of nutshell, and must have
wrenched my gold crowns, because
they both came off, and there sat
with 'em In my mouth. afraid I'd
cough and swallow 'em or strangle to
death.
IF was man I'd go knock that
purry smile off DR.. Pribble's face for
keeps, but what's poor woman to
do when her refined instincts won't
let her lower herself"
Madam" cried the man at the
desk. Il
Il nevers want to lay eyes on him
again!" said the woman with the
sharp chin, feeling for her handker-
chief, "and | says to myself. I'll go
into the first dentists Office ! see
down the street. for no matter how
poor a one he Is he can't be as bad as