Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-23
LAUGHING GAS DREAMS.
Sufferers Who Didn't Know When
Their Molars Were Extracted.

1--WE got to have this Internal tooth ex-
tracted." said a gentleman to a number Of
friends who were passing the evening to-
gether at the fine quarters Of one of the
party, quite recently. 1T has been tor
| rnenting me now for long time" he said
to his friends, land I'm a regular coward
when 1t comes to having a tooth pulled. 1
! think I'll take laughing gas" he said. Did
any Of you ever have a molar yanked out
OF your jaw under the influence Of laughing
gas?'
"Oh, yes" said one Of his friends, a we'll
known F street real estate agent. Take
| laughing gas by all means" he said. land
you won't know when your old acher is
out"
Pressed to know what his experience
was. the real estate man said: well, l
was afraid might have unpleasant dreams.
some kind of nightmare, or something of
that sort, when I went to take laughing
gas, but the dentist advised me to rest a
moment or two and think of some happy
occurrences in my life. Well did thought
or my counting days and how on one par
ticular night when the whole sky was
spangled with stars and planets, and was
strolling in the country with the girl who
| Is now my loving spouse. and all of that
seat In the chair. Well, at first 1 dreamed
| over those youthful days. but soon a change
came over the spirit of my dream and 1
found myself in long, dark tunnel filed
| with inches in the walls. and in every niche
there was giant every one Of whom hit
me whack on the head as 1 passed by
him. and just as l was about getting away
from them, one giant bigger than all the rest
Knocked me senseless, and Lord, how the
blow he gave did hurt. When 1 came to
my senses again. however, the dentist stood
smilingly by and had my tooth out but l
didn't know when he pulled It,"
My experience in having a tooth pulled
under laughing gas. said another Of the
party. was somewhat similar. 1 dreamed
that l was in a lumber mill and a buzz
saw about fifty feet in diameter began to
chase me all over the place. 1 couldn't es-
cape. and it caught me on the jaw and
nearly decapitated me. Just here I began
to things and discovered that 1 was
not in a lumber mill at all, but a dentists
shop, and my tooth had been extracted.
didn't know that it had been, though. I'M
til the doctor showed 1t to me, and ex-
pressed his willingness. if necessary, to
make affidavit to the fact that 1t was the
same old rascal that had prevented me
from getting a wink of sleep for three
nights"
Then spoke up clerk in one of the bu-
| reaus of the War Department, determined
to get in his innings in the narration of
laughing gas dreams, while the man with
the aching tooth was considering whether
or not he would inhale this potent
dream maker. IT, said the clerk, took
laughing gas to have a tooth pulled less
than a week ago, and when the gas began
to take effect 1 found myself on the
nue. surrounded by about thousand red
devils-automobiles of every size and de-
scription, and every was after me. 1
never had such work in my life as had in
lodging these vehicles, until at last one as
big a house struck me and knocked my
head clean off my shoulders. Heavens but
it hurt; but as l caught my head and was
replacing it where it formerly was, looked
around and the doctor was grinnng at me-
He had my tooth, but 1 didn't know how
or when he got it,
They all advised the sufferer, however
that their experiences were uncommon
The majority of people, they assured him.
had other sorts of dreams and did not know
when their teeth had been pulled. Thus
comforted, the victim of many aches decid-
ed that he would run the risk, but he
couldn't help wondering why the compound
to prevent one from knowing that his tooth
had been pulled should be called laughing
gas.