Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-02-09
SHE WANTED TO TALK
AND TAKING GAS WAS THE SUBJECT
THAT STARTED HER.

She Was an Awful Toward and Wa Afraid
She Would Screech and Garry On-The
Various Adventures of Relatives Who
Had Taken Gas OF Other Things.
'Do you want to take gass" asked DIR.
Pullem of a big, robust looking woman
who had come into his office to have some
teeth extracted.
"Well, that's what I hardly know, doc
tor, and l wanted to talk to you about 1t.
I'm just an awful coward, and I'm afraid
I'll screech awfully if 1 don't take any
thing, and then, again, mebbe 1t wouldn't
be 80 bad, after all. My husbands sister
had IA teeth out at one sitting, and never
took a single thing nor give a single
screeoh. But then she amt a bit nervous,
and l am, and l don't think that I could
have oven one out without screaming aw-
fully and''-
"Have you ever taken gasP"
ono, I've not, and l said l never would.
My Cousins wife's mother took gas, and
she says that she felt everything exactly
the same as if she hadn't taken 1t, and 1t
made her so dreadfully sick she had to be
taken home in a carriage, and she never
did get clear over it. OF course 1t was a
cheap dentist, and Cousin Sarah thinks 1t
was poor gas, for he didn't charge but 10
cents for it. But 1t cost her 30 times that
in doctor bills afterward, to say nothing
of the misery she endured. / don't think
that it ever pays to go in for cheapness
when it comes to doctors or dentists or
anything likely to affect the health. II I
should take gas, I'd want 1t to be of the
best grade, and
II assure you, madam, that I never adj
minister any other kind"
"Oh, no. I'm sure you don't. My hus-
bands sisters aunt gets her work done
here, and she said I could depend on the
best work and the most gentlemanly treat
ment here, and that If I did take gas it
would be Of the best. But my sister-in-
laws stepmother took gas in a nice place
where she paid 81 for it, and 1t made her
carry IN awfully. She laughed and hug
ged the dentist and talked silly and
squirmed out Of the chair and carried on
awfully, and I'd hate d~readfully to do any
thing Of that sort. Then, again, / think,
What If l shouldn't come to? I've read Of
several different persons dying in dentists
chairs. My heart amt weak that l know
of, and my doctor says I could take ether
Or chloroform If I wanted to, but that's
something l simply would not take. I've
a perfect horror of anything of that kind,
and I'd be sure I'd never come out Of it.
My husbands half brother wife's sisters
husband took ether and never came out of
1t, and I've heard my mother tell about a
man who took chloroform to have some
teeth out, and he never come out OF 1t, and
as for cocaine, I'm afraid of 1t, because
my brothers. son by his first marriage
"Do you want to take gasF"
"That's what / want to talk to you
about. If l could be sure 1T wouldn't
leave any after effects or make me do any
thing silly or sicken me, or-an old friend
Of mine named Lucy Jane Tandy-her
name is Hooper now. She married a man
of that name the fall l married my hus-
band, and she lives out west now and has
Ave lovely children. She sent all Of their
photographs only last week. If I'D thought,
/ might have brought them with me.
Anyhow her husband took something to
have his teeth out, and Lucy Jane thinks
it salivated him, and he did think of suing
the dentist, and no one could blame him
either. But, then, 1t wasn't gas he took,
and-well, my teeth don't pain me very
much and Tn in no hurry about having
them out, SO I'll come in again and talk
to you about it. But, to tell the honest
truth, doctor, l don't believe very much
in gas"
mo, I should think you didn't" NUT
tered the dentist between his set teeth al
she disappeared.-New York Sunday
World,