The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-07
HORRORS OF ABSINTHE,
Results Of Indulgence in the Nice Lookin
and Tasting Distillation.

Results of Indulgence in the Nice Lookin,
and Tasting Distillation.
Boobies, who recently came into such an
unexpected pile of money that he has beer
seeking fantastic forms of dissipation eve,
since, was drinking his sixth absinthe cock.
tail in succession at the Platypus club
Thursday night, says the Washington Star,
when Smiffkins, who has lived in Paris TO,
SO many years, you know, chided him gently,
my dear fellow" said he, elf you 90 on
drinking that stuff in such reckless way,
you'll be in your grave within two years at
the outside
YOU'RE pretty sort of man to lecture on
Temperance" replied Boobies. "Why, I'll
venture to say that you consume more
Thisky than any other member of the
"Maybe so, but whisky, bad as it is-I'm
pot defending lisa very different bever-
hge from absinthe. You know yourself that
Rbsinthe attacks directly the brain and
nervous system generally. just keep on
consuming the amount of it that you have
md you will be Interested to observe at the
nd OF that time what a dilapidated specter
+ your present self you are reduced to.
Jour nerves will be so shattered that Won
Fill shake as with the palsy; you will be re-
need to comparative skeleton; your face
Elll be drawn into lines and burrows, like
hat OF sick old man, and your complexion
Eill have assumed greenish hue, resem-
ing that OF absinthe diluted with water.
is likely too that your mind will be some
nat impaired, though possibly that will
ot signify
:Don't be too witty, Smifkins. AT all
rents can say that I have never drunk
"a vok - vnk< "
on't observe, do you, that my utteranoe is
pit distinct at this moment, or that my
leas seem confusedY'
Not in the slightest, and the fact illus
ates the most remarkable popularity of
Psnthe. 1t doesn't intoxicate in the or
Enoed state of exhilaration from its effects
pd yet he will not show the slightest |
mptOms of drunkenness. That is one |
ling that has made this Installation from |
Prmwood SO dangerously popular. You
N drink glass after glass of it, maintain |
3 yourself at high rate of mental and |
|rvous excitement and exaltation for |
Purs, and yet not feel or exhibit the slight
confusion of intellect or the least loco
ptive difficulty. Under such influ-
co you will be able to 20 to
dinner party and shine con-
nationally with brilliancy unusual to
p, or you NAV take part in public de-
te with success you could not achieve
shout the aid of this extraordinary brain
mulant. The exhilaration it produces
ls far more agreeable than that OBJ
med from any other intoxicant. Men
yer learn to Ike whisky; it is always abb
trent to the palate, % You may see by
itching drinkers at q bar gulp it down SO
not to taste it any more than they can
p: But absinthe has flavor that is ex-
slte to its habitual consumers. More
~ NS peasant stimulation does not lapse
subsequent dullness and drowsiness,
1t never occasions nausea"
ALI OF which," said Boobies, s.leads M
oppose, to something dreadful at the
Well, was going to say that if Won drink
pther of those absinthe cocktails. ali rioht
Tou feel now, you will, as like as not, fall
on the floor, like dead man. and re-
in unconscious for many hours. at the
OF which You will experience ali the
ns that are apt to follow a PROLONGED
DO. That is the way absinthe acts: ~
my advice and don't drink anv more of
o-night. I have learned a great deal
at its effects in general wav during the
- l have spent in France, where the
nthe vice has grown to such point
hin the last generation as to seriouslv
horalixe the race. To it ia attributed Nv
authorities IN large part the decrease
he French population. Over there II ia
nix usually in this way; AL
b absinthe as would fill two .onv
hdy glasses Is put into an ordinary tall
tumbler and some sugar syrup is put
water being then poured in from
|ht very slowly. Instead Of SUGAR.