University of the Pacific School of Dentistry - Chips Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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been burned. But we were not able to rest yet, for we were placed between large rolers and squeezed and rolled very thin and cut into small squares and placed between other squares of a sort of skin and laid on a block of granite. It seemed that our sufferings were not yet over, for now a large, heavy hammer was made to hit us for a long time and at each blow we could feel ourselves becoming thinner and spreading out more. NYC were now taken and cut into strips and rolled very loosely and then cut into little balls and placed in a bottle, which was placed on a shelf in a big iron box. At last we were taken to a dentist's office, and the dentist took us out of the bottle- and placed us in a pan over a fire and then picked us up one by one and hammered us so hard into a hole in this tooth and then rubbed some rough paper over us many time until we became bright. My comrades and I became fast friends and had many talks together, until one day the pretty girl tried to crack a nut with her teeth and my comrades were knocked out of the tooth and were lost. Some time after this I was placed on a window casing and as I was ve1'ylonesome,l decided to go back to my home in the earth and so rolled out of the window into a hole in the ground, and am now alone and am unable to talk with my comrades any more, but have hopes of being able to join them some day soon. SUGGESTIONS TO GRADUATES AND OTHERS. By Albert E. Skyes, D. D. S., Prof. Dental Porcelain Art, C. P. Si Every professional man who has succeeded can attribute his success to standards placed, rules and methods followed in his early career. He formulated these rules and methods to guide him in attaining his high standard of success. It is well to re- member that we cannot place our standards too highg besides as we approach them we will End that we are capable of placing others beyond, and in this manner we keep progressing. When a person places his standard, reaching it with appar- ent ease, remaining satisfied with his attainment, he ceases to progress, and before long he takes his place in the ranks of the Has Beensf' VVe hear at times of men who are still practicing with their college education. These men stopped study and investigation when they got their diplomas. Moral and physical cleanliness, honesty of purpose, business integrity, kindness, gentleness and a sincere love of our fellow- man are things to be well considered upon entering the profes- 38

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them lay a woman poorly clad, who, I suppose, was the mother of Lou and Effie. Over in a corner was an old, broken-down stove. It had no fire in it. Near. it was a stand with a cup and saucer upon it. The cup had a large niche in it, as though one of the children had at 'one time been ravishly hungry. The things mentioned and an old box was all that occupied the room. Suddenly the door opened and was closed with a bang. The person disclosed was a large, heavily-built man with a black mus- tache and sneaky eyes. I was quickly banished from sight in Lou's hair. Hey there: what you got there, hand it over Lou, hand it over. I'm suffering fer a drink, a voice said gruffly, as the man strode over to Lou. Oh, papa, please don't make me give it to you. I only got just one of 'em. Here there, hand it over, Lou, you can't get out of itg hand it over, I tell you, hand it over, he said again. I began to shiver with fright, what was going to happen to me. Lou began to tremble, too. I could hold on to her hair no longer, and I dropped to the floor. Ah, ah, so that's what you kids has, is it? Where did you get it, anyhow? Without waiting for an answer, he put me in his pocket, and with a gruff word to his wife, he strode out of the room. I-le took me to at pawn shop and sold me. Again I was put in a large window for men, women and children to stare at and comment about. , One day I was taken out of the window and sold to a pretty young girl, who gave the man a beautiful dress in exchange. The young girl placed me on one of her fingers and then she went to see a dentist, for she had a toothache. XfVhen we arrived at the dentist's, I began to feel nervous, for it seemed as though some of my comrades were nearer to me than they had been since we left our home in the ground. The dentist worked very hard on the offending tooth and pretty soon he took a little bottle from a drawer and opened it, and put a lot of small yellow balls on a little pan over a fire and soon I heard voices call out, as if in pain, and I recognized them as the voices of my comrades. Then the dentist took them one by one and put them in the hole in the pretty girl's tooth, and when he finished his task and my comrades were polished and shone very brightly, the girl went to her home. That night I asked my comrades what had become of them since we left our home in the earth, and this is what they told me: We were shaken up in a pan with a lot of dirty rocks and water, then we were picked out and taken to a cellar, where we were put in a fire and the pain we had to suffer made us all try to comfort one another. We were now poured into a box of charcoal and we grew very cool once more and when 'ave were taken out we found that we were brighter than before we had 37

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sional Held. Having done your best in anything, see that you can improve upon it, see that you do so when the oppor- tunity presents itself. Honesty is often spoken of as a virtue, but this is not so, for honesty is one of the most natural characteristics of man. However, grand, sharp practice and deals have to a great extent curbed the nobler characteristics of man, and she has become de- luded by false conceptions. Some people think it is smart to be dishonest, but any fool can be so. It is smart to be honest in the face of so much dishonesty. Don't try to be honest, but study honesty. If you try to be honest, you'll have somebody in mind as a standard, and you'll not know how really honest the standard is. The same reasoning applies to dentistry. Don't try to be a dentist, but study dentistry and cleanliness I never knew a morally, physically clean dentist, who had been in practice for sometime, looking for business or dodging his creditors. Clean teeth, finger nails, linen, officeand instruments, and absence of spots on wearing apparel are the best of adver- tisements. If you indulge in smoking, drinking or highly flav- ored goods, omit them until after office hours, and then be tem- perate. Many a refined lady has left the office because the den- tist's Hngers smell of Bull Durham or burnt mummy cloth. Wlieii poor, unfortunate people, whose station in life is lowly, present themselves for treatment, be as kind and gentle with them as you would with those who are more fortunate. Kind words and gentle treatment will always bear good fruit. Many a pro- fessional man can attribute a great deal of his early success to people of very moderate circumstances recommending him to their employers. It's seldom that the party who brags of what he is going to do for you makes good. Usually he is the fellow that forgets to pay his bill- so beware! Graduates in dentistry often make a great mistake when launching in the field of practice by thinking that because a few friends have made appointments that they have a well-estab- lished practice, and thus deluded they let go the purse strings. There's a big lull right the other side of these few friends, and it is from this lull that you begin to build your practice. So be- ware-or be wise ! The ladder of opportunity and success is always in position, and there is plenty of room at the top. So go to it and try yourself out. 39