The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-01-26 00:00:00

MOgylp) IANI4q,

" It ia the lu..ight of fashion just now" wrote the
!bedtime cl'Orl.ane in the time of Le f trend Mons,.
qui., "for the Parisisn ladies to become intesicated
met like the Men. ' Mal lb. !edits, time written of in
14111 were to be outdone by their descendant* id
nearly, AM year. later. These hare succeeded in
Myriam,/ a mode of intoxication of their own, and
ime which le even more fatal in Ow, if twrhape Ineln
degrading, than that produeel by the tisi I. Jett IWO
of Musicality' liquors. The sulpaiitaneint. injection
msrphie, first used by the medical men for the
alleviation of iffiyeicial milerings, lies now hearing a
mania among the women of Peri., who fly to it In
momenta oil ennui as in hour. of grief. Not long ego
was recorded the di alio, after horrible sulfaringe, if
'iii.of the victims of this flee vice a 111111111111 tehli had
leien beautiful, happy, and She alisorlsed
morphia three or 1.141 r thee/ an hour into her aeotem,
In the maid of a meal else would rise from table and
retire to her Peen PI manipulate the fatal little
oyringr. The eMletil of the., aloorptiima resemble,
lii some degree, thieve of opium•eating. A delicious
Janitor imirvaile. the mind, while the ipely Is wrapped
in a pleneent mom of well below. 141111111111 ling Vlsl./11/1
pen* before the oonsciutitheoi. Vague. ton...tinted
drielll• brighten the thought.. A dreamy happinree
' the time coals. the spirit, which feels that it hue
beim, ite true home, V. a all think that hatpin... ii
ours by night but the elfeet souls ibtoo•
dreamer awake. to find the reelit lea of life eold,
gray. The iiin inapiflo. small iiiiiioyeuret inte
unendurable troubles. The related emirates tire baud
isiceptel to *Mill the timeliest leiertion. The merit
droops common,' wholly by the rom rot of what nom
oorromido it, as Oillthiltell with the perwliwi into
whieli it lie. etrayed. The deily dreiniht of Light
becomes by ile4rees an hourly one. The morphia
hold MI herself, She is ticironglilv lust
io her alidilieu, her husband, her blonde her hien.,
ic though elw hail been a drunkard for years Ti.
way has been shorter and a little lees revolting.
'rhe coil in the MM. When Frank Maslen(' warn
ishiiit to have an operation performs, upon loin
the mimeo,' told him it lie a istinful ime,
met .eggestsd the amp of ehloridorm. " was the
decided -reply, " I wish to he pro.ent at tl e opera.
11011," Italese, without Iwing lilt to the actual proof
Si "iir great natigaliat wa., uttered a monewhat 'louder
reinark " %Vero I going to have a log cut id."
Is. said, "1 woold not be chloroforimq! I would
never abdicate my ego," But the inorpliiii maniac
resign, her rig., and can scarcely lei saiil to beiir wen
lieu-if so the. guest drama of her wretched life unroll.
Nlore lifeamy, more unreal, mom cloudy
o lewmi • the mind a. the fatal dose.. are mire
frequently taken. The action of the (frog on the
brain thistle produces the usual mioirablu reeialts, ouch
as we pee them etilly developed in the habitual
drunkard. The truthful INVOlllell is liar. Thii neat
grows phivealy. The once tender mother In use
betide...lit end candies ; irritable allicot tio ineanity
iii ti.,, interval. between the periiel• of belidoes
ottosicatien. Her outbreakn of irritability are
I'll veil by • dull sense of remorse. Iller periwig'
af her own degradation mums her a vague pain. Both
driven again to have recourse to the .ylinge with its
fatally fascinating contents The grief and
reproaches of friends, the loos if her own iself•re.w.et,
li.,' misery of her lucid twit:lent.. all WOW to drive
her Isiek to. the drug that me Stun.. her liappinesa awl
her ruin. The victim of morphia all parer of
will, and when that inmate *be drifts like a rudderless
ehip to the inetitable end. Aeldinit han a ~,,,, Phi.,
111.411i1SC 11P.111 reclaimed. Dr. Icsvenstron, I lermin,
uric. Ilse publiehed his obeervations upon thi•
able vice, declares that no one who ha. pa.siol ii,. first
,taire bee ever been rescued (pea Ow final lion dile
death. Th e come, in the form of ill agar:irate,'
attack of delirium tremens. Frightful hallucinations
take tim place of the may dream. the poison priduceil
in its initial ',hisses. Heinous imaginings and a
horrible xenon of indefinable dread, id intangible
terror, till the mind. The thought* grope in a fright.
fill chaioof dark bewilderment and gloom. In &pollee,
both mental and physical, the wretched life dickers
~it. The number of victime to this repillsive Viet/
are yearly increesing, and it u among the rieli and
the great ones if the earth that they are to le found.
It is to be feared that its ravage. Cr.' not wholly con•
lined to i,uur excitable and onpulaire neighbour..
llnglish doctors are beginning to be a Were of
it, and hare little difficulty in mem/sliming
the symptoms; the wanilering elan..., the aiment
manner, the took of (lased imbe.ility, the surely..
and the heavy indolence of the movement..
Ousweiunally, in the very firm stage. of the ilire..., if
oo it 'nay lie called, the sufferer feels that it is
stronger than Om la, and I.IIIPI fir some placu ot
repentance where she might loo• kept forcibly from the
small hottle.imit that claint. her I Isome retreat whore.
wider careful she may regain her
abilioattel self commend. In America such placm
are to be found for this ilipeomenieo, and it will
appear frum she reports of such institutions that they
are productive of real and permenent good. In the
limn,. It ha.shesyn bows found impossible to prevent
tho victim id drink or of drug% from obtaining what
she craves The solidity that mark. this terrible
felling °Yoram.* every difficulty, There iii always
some one who may be Milled to Nintl what owi
ardently desired, put in mirage where patients of
thlo sort ere received a certain *mount ot liberty in
lierfeetly oompetible with wifely froni teniptetimt.
The knowledge that it ia I,npoeeihile tui olnain
tants of any kind flonn bring. with lilt. item natural
iseipitinea iirrealgstmon n eirmunMenem, The OM.
19)1 diminishoo. The mind main* its Inst lonlano«.
The will Issin. 11l reassert iteelf. Mill realms olowly
return', The mental risien becomes Oyer, Ind OW
poilleuheinemin ii Sghltnt at the sight of lip. shy.. Irian
which the thllvrar lute bath turned beak him In time.
MON Newe