Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — MADE HER OWN FALSE TEETH. [ARTICLE]

MADE HER OWN FALSE TEETH.

How a Woman Made Herself Presentabli for Her Con's Wedding. I can’t tell whether this is going to strike you as humorously horrible or as Horribly humorous, foi I've had times of seeing it both ways myself; but at any rate, as an illustration of ingenuity in time of aeed, I don’t believe I have ever heard anything that quite comes up to this gtory of a woman who made herself a set of false teeth. The necessity arose because ■alter her own lower teeth had been extracted the dentist failed to keep his word promptly, and tbe making of the porcelain and gold set that was to replace them was delayed for a long time. In the meantime the woman’s son decided to get married. For my part, I think it would be an inhuman sort of a son who would insist upon having his wedding take place at a time when his mother had no teeth with to go to the festivities; but that is neither here nor there. The invitations were sent out and the preparations went on apace. At home, isolated from her kind, sat the woman of the empty lower jaw. If it had been possible she would have gnashed her teeth with rage at the dentist, but circumstances prevented, and so she sat-and thought until out of her thought came an inspiration. She would make her own teeth. Lower teeth don’t count for much as appearances go, anyway, ah* argued, and if a woman who could use a jackknife in her youth could not wield one in her old age it was a pity. How she did it you’re not to ask me, for all I know about it is that that woman did go to her son’s wedding and she wore a set of false teeth—gleaming white regular molars and bicuspids newly carved out of a round marrow bone taken from the breakfast beefsteak.—Milwaukee Sentinel.