ROYALTY IN SWEDEN. A Dynasty That Owes Much to an American Dentist.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 160, 10 July 1886, Page 4

ROYALTY IN SWEDEN. A Dynasty That Owes Much to an American Dentist.

A lady writes to me from the Court of Stockholm that Mr Axel Gustafeen's teetotaliBm, of which I said pomething early in this year, has certainly found advocates in Kiag Oscar and his Queen. But; sh© denies that pure philanthropy is the r< aeon why they are so much on the side of the Good Templars, the Blue RibbonitieB of their realm. The Bernadotte family hava been long enough on the throne and" intermarried sufficiently with German royalties and serene transparencies to suffer more from the ills to which flesh is heir than ordinary human beings. A quantity of alcoholic drink, therefoie, which would not have any effect on an ordinary Swede, would be. destruction and death to any of their Majasties' four eons. These princes grew up with pain and grief. They overtaxed their strength. Study weakened their eyes to a degree that made glasses an absolute necessity. When they had measles, scarlatina, or other zymotic plagues of childhood, tuoo6 iiioiadioo left "dregs "in their con* stitutions which wurenot oasy to. eliminate. Their teeth have been from infancy until now perpetual torments. The Court lady, writing from Stockholm, tells me that the second eon— Prince Oecar, aged seven and twenty — has been martyrised by the eccentric growth ot hid wisdom teeth. Instead of growing right up or straight down, they ehoot out sideways and force their points into the fle9h of the cheeks. Owing to the Wittelsbach and tne Naeeaa blood which runs in the Prince's veins, this deflection from the order of Nature has had consequences which the Stockholm lady Bays were extremely painful in more ways than one, and cast His Uoyal Highness into the deepest depths of gloomy apprehension. This is why : It caused terrible glandular disturbances, swellings, inflammations and their consequences, and Bueh intense cerebral suffering that a brain diseat c was feared. Throat and ears were badly affected.and the Eustachi&n tubes were choked up. Physicians and Burgeons " lost their Latin " when called in to attend the poor Prince. They gays fine Greek names to horribly ugly symptoms, and prescribed a treatment that worked no cure. As Prince Oscar is of aa age to marry, and has for the last year or so wanted badly to go a- wooing, *' ses miseres physiologiques " were a source to him of worse than the distreoa arising merely from physical pain. However, all's well that ends well, or apcupres. To a great extent (at least so the Court lady informs me who keeps me acquainted with much that goes forward at the Royal Slott in which her function forces her to live) the root of the evil has been extracted by Dr. Thomas! Evans, and the Prince will, it is hoped, soon be able to wop a bride at some foreign court, and win her, too. The name of the much-desired Princess the lady does not mention She, in fact, tells me that no matrimonial engagement has yet been entered into on behalf of the Prince whoso wisdom teeth have been giving him so much trouble. Her idea is that, in the interest of posterity and to keep an far as possible from Nassau or Wittelabach blood, he ought to follow the example of she forgets what ancestor on the paternal side who caw * pretty country girl washing clothes in a brook, made up to her, became her sweetheart and finally her spouse. The genial operation was so happily per. formed that, according to my fair informant, the celebrated American who carried it out was the darling of the court for several days, and, natunlly, the object of much professional hatred in the medical world of Stockholm. The King having, on previous occasions given him every Swedish deco> ration that he can dispose of made him Commander of the Norwegian Order of the Polar Star,