On one side of you you behold quite
a display of open plumbing and on the other side a tasty exhibit
of small steel tools of assorted sizes. No matter which way your
gaze may stray you'll be seeing something attractive.
You also take notice of an electric motor about large enough, you
would say, to run a trolley car, which is purring nearby in a
sinister and forbidding way. They are constantly making these
little improvements in the dental profession. I have heard that
fifty years ago a dentist traveled about over the country from
place to place, sometimes pulling a tooth and sometimes breaking a
colt. He practiced his art with an outfit consisting of two pairs
of iron forceps--one pair being saber-toothed while the other pair
was merely saw-fretted--and he gave a man the same kind of
treatment he gave a horse, only he tied the horse's legs first.
But now electricity is in general use and no dentist's
establishment is complete without a dynamo attachment which makes
a crooning sound when in operation and provides instrumental
accompaniment to the song of the official canary.
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