The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-01-20
Perfectly Good
Grievance


Before he could do more than look
up she had drawn out the chair OPP
posite and was looking forward ear
nestly. 81 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 ONCE before more innocent, un-
suspecting people get taken In just
because he has a smile like Cheshire
cat and looks as though he passed the
plate every Sunday, though l don't
believe he ever saw the inside of a
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
I've no doubt, being in the same line
Of business, you hate each other like
poison and are only too glad to get
customer away"
Z" began the man at the desk
with his pen still held at a surprised
angle of forty-five degrees.
lust 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 If two Of
'em hadn't died from scarlet fever
no. 1t was diphtheria-my memory's
not q bit Of good since I had all this
trouble with DR.. Pribble-they'd have
eight, and what on earth they'd feed
'em on when things cost so much
breakfast food, too, which Is f1lling-I
don't know, 80 that it's lucky they
lost two. I'd 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 1 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 1 amt a dentist
they're my own teeth, and l guess 1
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 I?'
why, if"
Il knew you'd agree with mel" in
terTupted 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, II I had to pay for crowns I
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! / suppose you do 1t
the same way, but I must say of all
the fling and saving and pounding
to get two perfectly good teeth-ex-
cept for the ache and the small filling
needed-out Of the way I never saw
the like! It was like having a powder
mine explode In my mouth, and him
| a-purrin' and murmurin', Just a min
ute, now, just q minute! / thought
he'd murder me before he 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 'emi If"
VIII you please" broke in the
man at the desk with q worried
frown.
And the sewing society met the
next day" proceeded the woman with
the sharp chin, emphatically, land
! 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
/ u QlCCG Vi uuI-buCll, anu i IAubL A6VO
wrenched my gold crowns, because
| they both came OF, and there l sat
| with 'em in my mouth, afraid I'd
cough and swallow 'em or strangle to
death. -
IF was q man I'd go knock1 THAT
purry smile OF DR.. Pribble's face for
keeps, but what's a poor woman to
do when her refined instincts won't
let her lower herself"
Madam" cried the man at the
| desk, Z"
Il never want to lay eyes ON him
| again." said the woman with the
sharp chin, feeling for her handker-
| chief, land / says to myself, I'll go
into the first dentists Office / see
| down the street, for no matter how
Door a one he is he can't be as bad az
DR.. Pribble. and your sign was the
frst saw and now, DR.. Stubs, when
can you attend to me?"
"Pm not DR.. Stubbs!" shouted the
man at the desk as she stopped. "Dr.
Stubs is out and was writing a let
ter while I waited for him to come
back. I'm Just a personal friend of
his and I don't know q tooth from .
doorknob. I'm In the automobile bus.
mess"
well. all I've got to say" declared
the client with injured dignity, get.
ting to her feet, is that II you were
q gentleman you'd have told me that
Tong ago."
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