New-York tribune., 1922-02-26

* PEAhINt of advances ~ dentistry, ! sat
down in dentists chair TIE other day
~ for tie first time in SIX years Well, #
YOU count that time in France, of
course. il hasn't been SIX Years Personally
don't count that time lie only mad an Old
wooden bench Sc, up ia the rear of BLACK
smiths shop Besides. he wasn't regular
dentist. Tie vent o.o. a. an enqineor After
pending six months cutting barbed wire en-
angiemcrts for tic I'D Division he tucked
pair Of plicss in his hack pocke. and joined
mp with The dental corps. I'm thirty minutes
tT The clock he raafed cut two Of my tecch
whole and shot enough torture into another
Goth So that [ wasn't I'm any Kind Of shave
10 enioy the arnsuce when it came Novom-
bcr II.
Perhaps KS because Of that ex x-doughboy
th The deatal Insignia on his Goa. collar that
I've been shy Of dentists ever since got back
n civilian clothes. Anyway. So fsr as have
been concerned in the last three years. d. D. S.
might have stood for Doctor Of Dislocated
shir5ones. Whcnever rad .oothache
either filed UP on red hci>er and thought
Was General pershinq of bought copy Of
THE She.k' and foeao; an about having any
teeth ia MY face
hen here thc other day. nhen ore of my
front moars cracked square in two and an
other pgominen' nenher of the upper Jaw
hung periousiy 10y s',oe string, .ocked my
self eye to ezs IN tHe gla and SAID:
See hete. FoJug man. This is all non
sense. If yoG czpeet 10 n.autaiu your ave.
age a. "a Beag Besonme through your decin-
. years Eoq haa better START something. #
lon wish TO have two teeth left in your head
TO crack beet .ea. with after Yea pass fit,
You'd petter eit ont and '.ad {; dentist"
lis ca1.ous thong abgu. advice Here Tor
months all Of lny intimate friends and rela-
tivcs had hoen preaching to me the wisdom
Of visiting dentist regularly every six
months. They SAID i. was q crime to neglect
ono Of TIC r0dmentary principles Of health
They predicted that I'd be wearing set Of
false teeth before ! reached thirty-tiYe And /
never heard word they said
Then suddenly take d notion and start
banding myself out advice and inside of two
hours I'm booked for a full set of appoint
mcuts with the only dentist In the metropoli-
tan district recommended 10 be as gentle with
tAe male of Tie species a with The vamps Who
demand an injection OF novocane before they
set foot in the office
lust the same I'll admit walked in with a
trembling upper lip and a pair of knees that
knocked together with a whack every time [
let them get an inch apart But before had
PASSED through the vestibule I began to realize
tha; styles in dentistry had changed since [
was last a party to the buzzing grinder
y young lady all in white met me at the
door. She may not have been a graduate
nurse. but she had all of the scenery. even to
the pointed cap and the sympathetic eyes. She
ussered me ON into the waiting room. There
wasn't anybody waiting there but forloll
ooNing hat tree with one hat and coat
DANGLING from an upper limb
"Sit down. please" said the baby in white.
he doctor viii be ready for you in min
ute Then She made neat exit through the
green curtains
looked around cautiously in case Of an
emergency I wanted to be prepared to walk
'not rum to the nearest exit In The center
of the room was magazine stand with the
customary array. Only it wasn't customary.
Sitting right up on top were an advance COPY
of Life and the next mouths issue of the
1s.s:sns.Jgc,;tan."
What ho.7 I said to myself. "If this is a
dentists Office I'm Marshal Foch."
Just then a low rumbling sound, rcnius-
cont of other such affairs, came waiting in
from the other room, followed by couple Of
@ure'es and loud splash. A large, fat man,
With very red face came boltng out. grabbed
his hat and coat and shot out of the door. The
nurse was Standing by the green curtains,
hcchoulng with lily white forctinger.
This way, please she crooned softly