Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1898 — The Bad Breath of Royalty. [ARTICLE]

The Bad Breath of Royalty.

Buropeaa royalty is cursed with «» •crable teeth, the result of conzanguln•ous marriages throughout countless generations, and Sven the princes at the reigning house 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, necessltailng much science and •ktU in treatment m to only natural, therefore, that they should have fr»quent resource to dentists, and, inasmuch as dental surgery has .attained a greater degree of science and proficiency in the United States than in Europe, it is American doctors os a rule who have been Intrusted with the wek fare of royalty’s Jaws. < Reared among republican surroundtags and imbibed with that essentially American conviction that all men are made of the same day, 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 it 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 eases, have acquired an Immenw amount of influence.—Chicago Record.