The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-07
SHE WANTED TO TALK
AND TAKING GAS WAS THE SUBJECT
THAT STARTED HER.

She Was an Awful Coward and Was Afraid
She Would screech and Garry On-The
Various Adventures of Relatives who
Had Taken Gas or Other Things.
"Do you want to take gas?'' asked Dr.
Pullem of big, robust looking woman
WHO had ceme into his Office to have some
teeth extracted.
''Well, that's what I hardly know, doc
tor, and wanted to talk to you about it.
I'm just an awful coward, and I'm afraid
III screech awfuIly If I don't take any
thing, and then, again, mebbe it wouIdn t
be so bad, after all. My husbands sister
had Il teeth out at one sitting, and never
took a single thing nor give single
soreech. But then she amt bit nervous,
and am, and I don't think that could
have even one out without screaming aW-
fully and"-
Have you ever taken gasp"
'No, I've not, and I said I never would.
My cousin s wife's mother took gas, and
she says that she felt everything exactly
the same as if she hadn't taken it, and it
made her SO dreadfully sick she had to be
taken home in a carriage and she never
did get clear over it. OF course it was
cheap dentist, and Cousin Sarah thinks it
was poor gas, for he didn't charge but 10
cents for it. But it cost her 30 times that
in doctor bills afterward, to say nothing
of the misery she endured. DOM think
that 1T ever pays TO go in for cheapness
when it comes to doctors or dentists or
anything likely to affect the health. If I
should take gas, I'd want it to be Of the
best grade, and
II assure you, madam, that 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 1 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-
law S stepm other took gas in a nice place
where she paid 50 for it, and it made her
carry on 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 dreadfulIy to do any
thing of that sort. Then, again, I think,
What If I shouldn't come to? I've read of
several different persons dying in dentists
chairs. My heart ain t weak that know
of, and my doctor says I could take ether
or chlorofoFm if wanted to, but that 8
something 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 brothers wife's sisters
husband took ether and never came out of
it, and I've heard my mother tell about a
man who took chloroform to have some
teeth out, and he never come out of it, and
as for cocaine, I'm afraid of it, because
my brothers. son by his first MARRIAGE
''Do you want to take gasp
"Thats what want to talk to you
about. If 1 could be sure it wouldn't
leave any after effects or make me do any
thing silly or sicken me, or-an Odd friend
of mine named Lucy Jane Tandy-her
name is Hooper now. She married man
of that name the fall I married my hus-
band, and she lives out west now and has
i've lovely children. She sent all of their
photographs only last week. If d thought,
I 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, it wasn't gas he took,
and-well, my teeth don't pain me very
much and I'm 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, don't believe very much
in gas"
'fNo, should think you didn t, - mutt
tered the dentist between his set teeth as
she disaPPeared.-N0w York Sunday
World