Ohio College of Dental Surgery - Alethian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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In the Good Qld Winter Time. There's a time in each year. that costs us full dear, 'Tis the good old winter timeg When college commences, and living expenses Use up our last hard-earned dime g When with rank dissipation, of forced celebration, We strive toward the object sublime 5 Of practical knowledge, at Dental College, In the good old winter time. CHORUS In the good old winter time, in the good old Winter time, Climbing up the college steps thro' the spit and slime, And if you chance to slip, why that's a very good sign You've been down to Chris', in the good old winter time. On Saturday night, it is our special delight, In the good old winter time 5 With company cheerful, facetious and beerful, To wander about o'er the Rhine 3 In pleasing elation, of mild stimulation, When every Gazabo feels fine g With no one to Work us, while life is a circus, In the good old Winter time. CHORUS In the good old winter time, in the good old winter time, The only kind of medicines are Whisky, beer and wine 3 But if you stop to sass the cop, why that's a very good sign You'll spend the night in the cooler in the good old Winter time. ' D. D. GRIFFITH 104

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noon. In the evening when Paw asked him to milk he let out an awful beller. Next morningphe made a hor- rible beef because he couldn't get loaf sugar for his coffee. Shortly after breakfast his paw lured him into the barn and set on him, He got a good holt on the Adam's apple and choked the offspring until his tongue stuck out like a pistol. You dash-burned little pin head o' misery you, exclaimed the old man 3 goll bing me if I think you're wuth the powder to blow you up. You peel them duds an' git to work or else mosey right off o' this farm. The son's feelings were so outraged by this brutal treatment that he left the farm that day and accepted a position as assistant in a large and prosperous dental company. He especially liked this organization be- cause they were painless dentists--Jethro always had tender feelings--and then he had the privilege of wear- I i 4 ing brass buttons on his coat while he opened and shut the door for ladies who came and went, and handed picture cards to the passers by, He felt that he was particularly adapted for a professional career, and any- how, he didn't propose to go out on no man's farm and sweat down his collar. After ten years of unremitting application and studious frugality the professional man had acquired in real estate, personal property, stocks, bonds, negotiable papers and other collateral, the sum of nineteen dollars, but he owed a good deal more than that. Brother Lyford had continued to be a rude and unlettered country jake. He had 240 acres of crackin' corn land Call tiledj, a big red barn, four span of good horses, sixteen head of cattle, a likely bunch of shoats and a covered buggy. MoRAL-Drink deep or cut out the Pierian spring altogether. GRACE W. CA1.L-iHiiN, IO x 1 I

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n...4.l-hL..AL..4ll'4-. ,L l ,- The Doctor and the Teeth - AY, Doc, have ye seen the fine kit o' tools the new dentist brought to town with him?l' inquired the village patriarch, as the old man turned down his coat collar and disclosed his wrinkled, pippin-like countenance. No, I haven't, and I don't want to,', he snapped, and an angry light gleamed in his watery blue eyes. Kit of tools !'l he added, contemptuonsly. Don't talk to me about kits of tools. Haven't I held for the last lifty years that only one tool was needed to pull teeth with? Haven't I actually pulled teeth with one tool for fifty years, and did you ever hear of me hooking that instrument onto a jaw that something didnlt break loose? I guess not! he concluded with decision, as his questioner, apparently cowed, shook his head in the negative. That's right, Docf' returned the patriarch meekly. Something always breaks loose, sure enough, whenever you hitch onto a man's jaw with that ol' turnkey o' Q IW ai m - Kfjtj D. yournf' I have always maintained continued the old doc- tor, in a more sprightly manner, as his brow cleared, that the old-fashioned turnkey can't be beat. All you have to do is to be sure of your holt and then give the I I I I I 1 I I I IO proper yank. I'll allow it takes experience to keep from breaking the side of the jaw, but practice makes perfect. It's wonderful, though, how afraid some people are of that old instrument of mine. Seems like a man never forgets it after he has had it used on him once. I remember a few little incidents about pulling teeth that amuses me every time I think of them, con- tinued the old doctor, visibly brightening as he struggled with his memory. When Bill Brown was a young fellow he was doing some Work for me one day when a stranger drove up and said he had the toothache. I had just hitched up to drive out in the country, and was in a hurry, so I just called Bill in and said: Excuse me, but I'm in a hurry, This is my assistant, Dr. Brown. just sit down on the halfkbushel measure there and he'll 'tend to you. Doctor, this gentleman has a toothache, just get the turnkey and yank the tooth out. Bill looked kind of helpless, but he started for the house, and just as I got up to the corner, more than two hundred yards away, I heard a most unearthly screech. I knew that Bill was wrastling with that tooth, so I just whipped up and drove along. Bill got the tooth all right, but he took half the stranger's jaw out with it, I found out when I