The Holbrook news., 1911-10-06

NO. sir. I want to go to a Zen tist."
 "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 just make out. He was also 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. mol Why. he almost pulled a girls head of once!"
 Then to Dentist Brown?"
 No. He's savage as a meat-ax. want to go to the new dentist have never seen him, but a girl friend told me he had dreamy blue eyes. and that she didn't believe he would hurt anybody. My brother Sam has dreamy blue eyes, and you couldn't get him to kill a fly. Oh, forgot to say that I am Miss Lottie Morton We live back there in the house on the hill"
 And my name is Paul Chatterton. I will drive you to the office of the new dentist. I have heard that he was very careful and sympathetic"
 "Oh, hope so. Just think-I have had toothache for two days and nightsl"
 Its awful"
 Its worse than awful-it's terrible. If he should pull my head around while I am in the chair know I should faint away.
 But he won't do that"
 'If you know him won't you speak to him? Tell him it's ached two days and nights. Tell him that when I tried to get to sleep I dreamed of dragons. Tell him that mamma doesn't seem to think it's anything great, and that brother Sam poked fun at me. He said the dentist would yank my head this way and that. You tell the new dentist all about it, won't you?"
 T will, and here we are at his of- flee. I'll go right up with you"
 Miss Lottie Morton was so taken up with her toothache that she thought nothing of his unlocking the office door and changing the signs. into 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. and I'm going to be very gentle and sympathetic"
 It's so funny"
 It was an ulcerated tooth There was a 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 swelling. She must come again in three days. As the dentist had no pressing work on hand, he would act as chauffeur to get her home safely. With his own hands he replaced the bandage, and by the time it had been accomplished he realized that his words to his mother might come true.
 It was queer about that tooth. It wasn't such a 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 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 moth CT happened to have a lady friend who knew all about him, and so/ one day when the young man entered the mothers presence and saw that she was about to begin on the same old subject, he forestalled her by saying:
 Mater mine, I promised to give I'D dentistry when I found something better. I have found it. That is. I have if she will say yes. She is my first, last and best customer, and I want to take you down there tomor- row to call on her"