Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1910 — Dentists Believe They Have a Kick [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Dentists Believe They Have a Kick

Chicago.— "Weil, i don't know what under the shining forceps I am going to do, anyway,” and a dentist In the Masonic temple sighed a perfect mammoth of a sigh. / v\. ‘The matter? Hair, Just plain hair. No —not plain, either. Now, for instance. A lady came up to my office the other day and wanted her teeth fixed, and finally I took hold of the top of her head with one hand, while I worked with the other. Then I turned away to get an Instrument, and ray sleeve button caught in her hair and the whole back of it, about fifteen fat, shiny curls, came along with me. She Simply froze me up. and she didn’t come back to pay her

bill, either. Say, this new fangled hair style is'putting me to the bad. "The worst feature of the whol thing is that the heads, or rather th» hair, won’t fit into the headrests. 5 have tried all manner of schemes, and even had a-new headrest built along lines -that I was sure would fit, but the heads simply won’t fit into anything. “If we do succeed in getting the mass laid out and tucked away care-, fully where it wjon't bother us, we get something like this: “‘Oh, mercy, doctor, you are mussing my hair all up. And I am going to a party this afternoon, too.' "But the moat usual thing is; ‘Oh* doctor, there Is a hairpin sticking in my head. Walt a minute. O, dear It’s coming down. Doctor, do stop a minute while I fasten up my braid.* “I do tell you what, the denOst* ought to get together and boycott, the present style of hairdress. or else insist that all extra hlair be taken off before any dental wbrfe will be dona, That would settle it, all right.’*