The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-13
LAUGHING GAS DREAMS.
Sufferers Who Don't Know When
 Their Molars Are Pulled.

Tnelr MolarS Are Fulle0. Washington Star.
 I've got to have this internal tooth extracted" said a gentleman to a num- Der of friends who were passing the even ing together at the fine quarters of one of the party, quite recently. Tt has been tormenting me now for a long time," he said to his friends, "and I'm a regular coward when it comes to having tooth pulled. I think I'll take laughing gas" he said. Did any of you ever have molar yanked out of your jaws under the influence of laughing gas?'
 "Oh, yes,'' said one of his friends. . Take laughing gas by all means" he old acher is out.'
 Pressed to know what his experience was, the real estate man said: Well, was afraid 1 might have unpleasant dreams, some kind of nightmare, or something of that sort, when I went to take laughing gas, but the dentist ad- vised me to rest moment or two and think of some happy occurrence in my life. We'll l did. I thought of my court ing days and how on one particular 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 that sort of thing, and thus fortified I took my seat in the chair.
 Well. at first dreamed of those youth- ful days, but soon a change came over the spirit of my dream. and I found myself in long, dark tunnel, filled with niches In the walls. and in every niche there was giant, every one of whom hit me whack as passed by him. and just as was about getting away from them, nYa pfanf hiUCar all Lno ed me senseless, and Lord, how the blow he gave me did hurt. When I came to my senses again, however, the dentist stood smilingly by and had my tooth out but didn't know when he pulled it,
 My experience in having a tooth pulled under laughing gas," said an- other of the party. was something sim liar. I dreamed that I was in a lumber mill and buzz saw about fifty feet in diameter began to chase me all over the place. I couldn't escape. and it caught me on the jaw and nearly decapitated me. Just as I began to see things, and dis covered that I was not in lumber mill, but a dentists shop. and my tooth had been extracted. didn't know that 1t had been. though, until the doctor showed 1t to me, and expressed his willingness, if necessary, to make affidavit to the fact that it was the same old rascal that had prevented me rom getting wink or sleep for three nights"
 Then spoke up clerk in one of the bureaus of the War Department, deter mined to get in his innings in the mar ration of laughing gas dreams. while the man with the aching tooth was consider ing whether or not he would inhale this potentN dreammaker. '1," said the clerk, took laughing gas to have a tooth pulled less than a week ago. and when the gas began to take effect I found myself on the avenue surrounded by about a thousand red devils-automoblles of every size and description, and every one was after me. I never had such work in my life as I had in lodging these vehicles, until at last one as big as house struck me and knocked my head clean off my shoulders. Heavens! but 1t hurt; but as caught my head and was replacing 1t where 1t formerly was I looked around, and the doctor was grinning at me. He had my tooth, but l 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 decided 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.