St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-22
HORRORS OF ABsINTHE.
Take Good Advice and Keep Away
From The Seductive Green Fluid.

Take GOOD Advice ana Keep Away
From the Seductive Green Fluid.
Boobies, who recently came into such
an unexpected pile of money that he
has been seeking fantastic forms of dis
sipation ever since, was drinking his
sixth abointhe cocktail in succession at
the Platypus club Thursday night, when
Smiffkins, who has lived in Paris for
SO many years, you know, chided him
gently.
..My dear fellow" said he, ''if you go
on drinking that stuff in such reckless
way you'll be i'll your grave within two
years at the outside"
"You're a pretty sort of man to lee
ture on temperance replied Boobies.
"Why, Pll venture to say that you con-
sumo more whisky than any other men,
ber of the club"
"May be so, but whisky, bad as it is
Pm not defending it's very different
beverage from absinthe. You know
yourself that abSinthe attacks directly
the brain and nervous system gener-
ally, says the Washington Star. just
keep ahead consuming the amount
of it that you have taken this
evening every day for one year and you
will be interested to observe at the end
of that time what dilapidated specter
of your present self you are reduced to.
Your nerves will be so shattered that
you will shake as with the palsy; you
will be reduced to comparative skel-
eton; your face will be drawn into lines
and your complexion will have assumed
a greenish hue resembling that of abb
sinthe diluted with water. 1t is likely,
too, that your mind will be somewhat
impaired, though possibly that will not
signify"
Don't be too witty, Smiffkins. At
allevents l can say that l have never
drank enough absinthe yet to intoXicate
me. You don't observe, do you, that
nv utterance is not distinct at this mo-
ment, or that my ideas seem con-
fused?"
mot in the slightest. And the fact
illustrates the most remarkable Pc
culiaritY of aDsinthe. 1t doesn't intoX-
icate in the ordinary way at all. A man
may be in an advanced state Of eXiler-
alton from its effects and yet he will not
show the slightest symptoms OF drunk
enneSs. That is one thing that has
made this distillatiOn from WOrmWood SO
dangerously popular. You can drink
glass after glass of it, maintaining
yourself at high pitch of mental and
nervous excitement and eXaltatiOn for
hours and yet not feel nor exhibit the
slightest confusion of intellect or the
least locomotive difficulty. Under such
influence you will be able to go to din
ner party and shine conversatiOnally
with brilliancy unusual to you, OF you
may take part in public debate with
success you could not achieve without
the aid of this extraordinary brain stimu-
liant. The exhiliaration itprOduces, too, is
far more agreeable than that obtained
from any other intoxicant. Men never
learn to like whiskey; it is always alb
horrent to the palate, as you may see by
watching drinkers at bar gulp it down
so as not to taste it any more than they
can help. But absinthe has flavor
that is exquisite to It's habitual consum-
ers. Moreover. its pleasant stimulation
does not lapse into subsequent dullneSS
and drowsinesS, and it never occasions
nausea"
.sAll of which," said Boobies, 'leads
up, suppose, to something dreadful at
the end.''
"Well. I was going to say that if you
drink another of those absinthe cock
tails, all righ hit as ysu feel now.yOu will,
as like as not, fall over all at once on
the floor, like dead man, and remain
unconscious for many hours. at the end
of which you will experience all the
pains which are apt to follow pro-
fonged spree. That is the way absinthe
| acts: so take my advice and don't drink
any more of it tonight. have learned
great deal about it's effects in general
way during the yeas ! have spentu!