A COMEDY OF TEETH

Evening Star, Issue 20864, 6 August 1931, Page 12

A COMEDY OF TEETH

)\'w weeks ago .Mr Hoover went, to the Walter Hood' Military Hospital in Washington tor dental treatment (says the * Manchester Guardian’), and it was found necessary to extract three or tour of his teeth. An orderly who was in attendance had the bright idea that there were people who would be willing to pay good money for a President’s teeth.* so he gathered them up as soon as Mr Hoover had left. lie not only possessed himself of the Hoover teeth ; lie also collected all the teeth that had been extracted that day from the jaws of many sufferers by the hospital dentists. Tito exact number of his collection is not stated, hut it was considerable, and he had no difficulty in disposing of thorn till as genuine Hoover teeth at 50 rents each. This price he afterwards found was absurdly low, for within a day or Iwo he'di.scoveml that they were being sold in 4lie city at several dollars each. Then somebody discovered that there were more teeth on oiler than the Hoover household could have supplied oven if e\ery member bad visited fbo dentist, ami had every tooth extracted. Quotations in the Presidential old teeth market iimnediaely dropped to zero.