Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — The Bad Breath of Royalty. [ARTICLE]

The Bad Breath of Royalty.

European royalty is cursed with execrable teeth, the result of consanguineous marriages throughout countless generations, and even the princes of the reigning bouse of Sweden, who are of plebeian origin, the grandfather of the present King having been born as a peasant at Pau, on the French slope of the Pyrennes, suffer from bad teeth, necessitating much science and skill In treatment It is only natural, therefore, that they should have frequent resource to dentists, and, Inasmuch as dentil surgery has attained a greater degree of science and proflclenoy in the United States than in Europe, It is American doctors as a rule who have been intrusted with the welfare of royalty’s Jaws. Reared among republican surroundings and imbibed with that essentially American conviction that all men are made of the same clay, no matter whether king or peasant, their Independence of manner always presented an agreeable and refreshing contrast to the obsequiousness and flattery of native courtiers, and iti Is to this in particular that must be attributed the remarkable Influence acquired at several of the European courts by these American dentists. They were trusted not only with royal teeth, but also with many a royal secret, and they, In several cases, have acquired an Immense amount of influence.—Chicago Record.