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BREATHE DEEPLY...

AVE you ever had

an anesthetic,

do

you remember what you thought about while you were unconscious?

Was your mind just dead? Or did you dream, and, if so, was it a pleasant dream or a night- mare?

I am prepared to be that if you have ever had gas at the dentist's you told the anaesthe- tist afterwards that you had never "realy gone off."

People nearly always say that after laughing gas.'

"And it is nearly always (though not in variably) untrue.

You think you have been laugh.

THAT'S

99

WHAT THEY SAY

TO YOU. THIS ARTICLE TELLS

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE-

Laughing Gas

mares: laughing gas makes you

By the way, when you, came awake the whole time, your con-

from the gas did you aciousness has been broken for round such a short time. Ilesult: You anxiously inquire "if you'd said believe you have never been anything I shouldn't be sur- prised if you did. So many peo- asleep, and nothing any one can say will convince you that you ple are afraid they have given

away their secrets.

But you needn't worry, Peo- ple don't talk-under gas.

have.

Even if you have had a dream The family of the late Mrs. Anna

Kotwall wish to thank all their under gas you probably link it on friends and relatives for condo-to what you were thinking about lences, wreaths and attendance before you went to sleep. at the funeral in their recent bereavement.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1937,

MINDING ONE'S

BUSINESS

How much more delightful, how much safer and secure the world and mankind would be if

neys.

thing how FUNNY

frightened some peu- IT is pretty obvious why ple are of losing consciousness- it is called "laughing they seem to dread it more than

an operation. gas," though no one knows why

Perhaps in the old days, when people so often laugh when they

chloroform was dangerous and first come round. But it is a

ether made you sick, taking an

I am going to tell them what Here is an oxample. A man goes on in their minds and bodies told me once that when having a while the dentist takes out the tooth out under gas he dreamed tooth-or the surgeon the ap- that he was going to be one of the most famous men who have pendix.

ever lived a sort of Hitler, Mussolini, and emperor of the

4.

WHATEVER anaesthe-

tic you have, it will world rolled into one.

In his dream ho was very plen. cut off all communication be- tween your mind and your volun- sed with himself, and told me tary muscles. You will be as that he wanted to make quite imp as a rag doll-and that is certain of the truth of this pro- just how the operator wants you phecy. So he asked for some proof, and was told that if he to bc.

The way you will behave un- heard any one speak before he der an anaesthetic has been so had counted ten, it would be a carefully worked out that any sure sign..

to do just body can be made what the doctors want him to.

Of course, there are various

He began to count, and before he reached nine he heard a voice

fact that quite a large percen- aesthetic was about the worst degrees of anaesthesia, and there say, "Take a sip of this and rinse tage of people find something part of the whole business. is a choice of a dozen or more

very funny in their dreams un-

unnesthetics.

The explanation probably is that it picks out some particular cells in your brain:

belladonna

unconscious. Some

are

Now about.

out your mouth."

Dreamers under gas nre very

our cares behind us

when we

HERE is another curious dream. This is an in- to talk, or swear, or say naughty stance of the way a dream ex-

words, because you are not.

combination of But things are very different drugs (or der nitrous-oxide, and nothing now that they give you a prick drugs); the anaesthetist decides often thoroughly pleased with whatever amusing under other in the arm-probably while what he will give you when he themselves. I believe the ex- you're still in bed-and you come has heard what operation you planation of this is that we leave to afterwards in your bed again. are going to have,

mind part with consciousness. your But people still drend "going off." Some are afraid of what when they have got you on the operating-table. Get rid of the Different drugs, produce dif- will be done to them while they, iden at once that you are going nations and men could learn the ferent kinds of dreams. Oplum are lesson of minding their own busi- always gives pleasant dreams; afraid of unconsciousness itself, gives you night- and some think that they are go- And yet, what a sorry

Neither are

you going to aggerates real life, much as a ing to die. pass if the lesson were read too.

The first group must have con- You are going to have à dreamed that he was at Buckingham struggle, or even be restless, caricature does. A man dream- literally. Where should civilisn-side is the true "revolution."

Infidence in their doctors. Then

Palace, having a talk to. King tion have arrived had it not been any event the original revolution they will have nothing to fear probably more than one-but, Edward VII. and King George V. for meddlesome people like the minority.

erred in its dealings with

curiously enough, it is almost and both were kings. the on that score. The third group prophets and founders of new Royal Family retired from the risk of death under an anaesthe

King and Queen and can take it from me that the certain that it will be a pleasant

dream,

His mind, you see, was deter- mined that he should make no religions who dared to question scene to avoid bloodshed. That tie is rather less than the risk the old beliefs? Where should is admitted by both sides.

mistake as to the high society in But every one takes when crossing IF the anaesthetic is which he found himself. we have arrived without the bloodshed came, with blame on an arterial road.

short one, you may. But we are never surprised in philosophers and scientists, such both sides, and it might have

But the people in the second have a dream which tries to ex- dreams, so he took it all for men who doubted that the world avoided... The reformers group are often the most difficult plain the sensations you have granted; not even when both were too radical; they were not to convince that there is nothing as you come round, and in this kings at once asked his advice on was flat? Yes, even the bloody progressive. They failed; how to worry about when they are case the dream will only have an important matter of state did Cromwells, the Dantons, the utterly, how tragically their

going to have an anaesthetic. occupied a fraction of a second. he feel the least bit astonished. Washingtons, in their different bloodsoaked, pitiful country now spheres, with their different bears witness. views, accomplished what their Spain's revolution was its own No matter progeny call progress. That is affair, however.

what had been the outcome, the the test of true reform, then-intervention by other nations, Progress. And progress is im-officially or unofficially, cannot provement,

domestic affairs.

be condoned. The moment such|

A PUZZLED SASSENACH

bad

I rise from "my" bed" ("bed"

day.) After that I dress, my first

The reason why you never feel surprised in your dreams is because all your critical powers reside in your conscious mind. And your dreams are made up of experiences which the deeper layers of your mind have stored.. There is a detonator which, so- to speak, fires off the dream, and it is usually something which has. happened to you recently.

The best-known

not very

Very often reformers are ill-tampering occurs the equanim. "I WANT out! I want out!" (ter), like the little folk still de in My small four-years-old the north of England, we would get advised, unbalanced people, andity of the world is disturbed daughter, not a drop of Scottish the thrill of our lives.

There are laws, written and unblood in her veins (but none the But we are getting reconciled, or for that reason fail. Very often written, which must be observed better for that, let me hasten to nearly so! their plans and revolts are abor-if mankind would avoid chaos, add), repeated the phrase over and Listen to part of a typical day in tive, and must be for their very ruin and retrogradation. One over again,

the home of a Sassensch, exlled in Something had Kone wrong. Scotland:---- nature. They are preordained of the most important is that

Of course, some of the pictures you see when. to failure because, basically, of minding one's own business, Misdemeanours are common in her

her young life, but this time would be sufficient in England, or you are unconscious are deter- they are not progressive, guar-none the less essential because it must have been serious, for her even the cruder "get up.") Then mined by what is going on in antee no improvement. Revolu-t is not written anywhere but mother

spoken. Four-years- tion may be excusable; but never in some well-thumbed documents old was confined to barracks, and take my bath (I heard somebody your body. the wholesale destruction of the still cherished by a disillusioned all the pleadings and banging of describe it as a "donk" the other example is the uncomfortable nightmare, good with the evil of a system, League of Nations. It is the tiny clenched fists on the other elde garment, of course, being a semmit dream known as a of a party, of a creed. Inter. nature of man that he will re-jof the bedroom door were of no vention by one nation in the sist intervention in a neighbour's avail. So she opened wide the (est.) I see there are no conls which happens because your

(eonly in the pall (bucket), only digestion is itself affairs of another, in the inter- family quarrels if he is fair-pipes and, fortissimo, yelled again, dross (slack.) There is no wood to happy at the time.

"I want out!"

start the fire, so out I go into the You see, your mind must have nal, private business of another minded, and if there is some

And that set me thinking. If, garden and chop some kindlingsan explanation of the sensation people, can no more be condoned chance of his neighbour settling than would the intervention of the affair reasonably well and two years ago, I hadn't been on the (chips.) My the time there is which arises in the body. That

"ahort leet" for my present job in cheery blaze in the grate, the an individual in his neighbour's being the belter for the com- Edinburgh, she would have been kettle starts boiling, and it is time is why the man who fell asleep.

promise. But the moment some shouting "I want to 60 out!" for me to infuse (brew) the ten. With a tight collar round his: third party burnts in upon the And that reminds me again. Why wife lays (sets) the table, first neck dreamed that he was being In the uprising of General scene-particularly if his mo-"hort loot?" We called it short of all bringing a clean cloth out of banged. Franco's Insurgents in Spain tives are questionable the fair-list in England. Why the differ the press (cupboard,)

The deeper the degree of un- the world has an instance of a minded, law-abiding man

is enco?

consciousness, the less will sen- But there's no much difference. party with strong, convictions moved to counter-intervention. endeavouring, by force, to retain And so it goes.

The wee robe! has started to show. During breakfast the procession sations reach that part of the begins. The first brain which registers them and institutions which an apparent There are still nations which us the way. While her cousins. In of tradesmon

shop for just knock means the flesher (butcher), then explaing them by a dream. majority had sought to destroy, have not loarned the lesson of England go into a

"toffees," Bho demands and I hear my better half say It is just as well this is so, none too gently, but in the way minding their own affairs. plain

We stared yesterday "Call it hough if you want. I'm otherwise every operation would of revolutionaries. It may be Japan's action in China has had "sweaties." argued that both Loyalist and immediate and predictable re-and gave it up as a bad Job when going to stick to the name I've albo accompanied by a nightmare.. Insurgent parties can be classi-suite. The Brussels Conference she strode in with the announce was known-shin beef." Five and we know that this doesn't

ment "Quick, quick There's a minutes later I hear her asking the fied as revolutionaries. For the was one. Russia's now obvious bonnic wee cow in the sorca win-greengrocer the price of oranges. official Government of Spain is concern over the Far Eastern dow, with a wee, wee bell round its Apennies each," comes the reply. unquestionably made up of such situation is another. The in-neck." a type, its leaders having causedtimation. that Russia would

A Day's Round the overthrow of the monarchy, withdraw support from Spain is and having attempted to reform significant to any but those who I saw the effigy Inter the entire system of Govern-are blinded by arrogance and vertisement for somebody's tinned This time, plumber, complete with dream is completely wiped out

gained. ment, to say nothing of the ambition. There are sufficient milk, and certainly it was a nice mate. Ile has come, so he says, to the moment consciousness in re- Church. The strange paradox incidents of precedent to allow looking cow, and it had a little, sort (mend) the leaking tap.

little bell round ita neck. Explain.! So it goes on. By this time I am of a revolutionary party calling the warning, if not the prognos too, why she comes in after a long on the way to the ofice, but I the counter-revolutionary party tication, that Russia is contem-eetle scamper In the garden, visualise the baker selling my wife rebels is understandable, but it plating counter-intervention in realising that lunch time is far dis a half loaf (why "half" I don't is an academic, if somewhat the affairs of her ill-used noigh- tant, asks for "a plece." If she de-

know.) But certainly the first Cursa | useless point of argument which

manded " butty" (bread and but-

First Nation's blaring drama- tization of W. R. Burnett's ft.

mous Book.of.

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Of course, we don't know that. unconsciousness is always ac- companied by dreams. It is (31⁄2 lbs) of potatoes, you said, thought that it usually is;.but

I presume he means that they are two a penny. Then, "A forpit

An ad-Mistress (Mrs.)" Another knock. we do know that very often the

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Anthony Weymouth