The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-12

Z general par'or IS "a delightful place for
/ relaxation 10 those very hard worked, en-
/ Enthusiastically scientific women, whose
T every day work Ia hitherto masculine
] spheres seems TO make them all the more
] feminine IN their leisure.
The only fault can find with the
I woman doctor is that she affects arm
chairs and q somewhat professional atu-
/ tude when she gets topic. And she
| most always does get a topic to eXpound
/ after the clatter Of the teacUps and the
I chatter OF small talk has subsidized. The
| latest of these talks was started by one
/ Of her learned junior colleagues in the
| resident staff mentioning some incident
| that had amused her at a soda water
| counter. The woman doctor is a clever
! woman and a good natured, but she
| shifted
"Thave an opinion of YOU, Emily" she
| began, If you 90 to soda water fountains.
! What, for gracious sake, did you drink"
! well, l drank some pistachiO ice cream
| soda water, and / was thirsty and tired
and it tasted good and cooled me OF; and
why shouldn't II Besides, 1 didn't pay
for it."
"Oh, well. Emily, didn't mean to lee
| ture, - went on the senior inferno, joining
in the general laugh at Emily's last adj
| mission. i find no fault with any
wOmans drinking real soda-in modera-
atiOn-espeCially if some one else pays for
it and it's good. There's been great
| deal Of nonsense talked about soda water
! blistering ones interior add running diges
| ton, which like most popular talk OF that
| sort, is mere stuff. Let him buy you soda
water as often as you please, my dear.
! But look here, girls"
! DRUGGISTS WHO DRUG.
! The woman doctor assumed her profess
| siOnal attitude and the girls sighed and
! awaited the lecture that that attitude
! portended.
The soda water man, whether he is in a
! drug store or a dry goods or cOnfectioner's
! shop IS quack. He's practicing medl-
|. cine in a sort of way. He sells and
! pushes all sorts of nostrums to make you
! feel better, to relieve that tired feeling
or restore your nerves. It's got so now
! that I'd rather a young man friend of
mine should go to a rum seller and get
what he would cali "a ball than go and
dose himself at a soda fountain if he feels
seedy' There isn't much difference be-
tween barroom and a soda fountain any
way-sO far as eXternals GO"
Why, Ellen, how do you know7' gig
| gled her audience. Woman doctors some
times giggle, l assure you.
mo, but l mean,' replied DIR, Ellen,
| laughing too, tits a long counter, marble
instead of wood, and white aproned young
men behind it who say, 'Whatll you haveP
| just like-be still, you geese. Don't you
| suppose I've got some brothers, and l
| won't ask them around here, either, if
| Well, they sell you acid phosphate for
! your nerves and lime Juice for YOUR diges-
tiOn. These are cool and palatable drinks
l don't doubt, and l fancy they do no
! particular harm. l don't believe they do
| much good
But the harm is in this. It's not
necessary to tell you, giBls, the effects of
! continued doses of bromide of potassium
| But those men here probably don't know
| anything about it."
! There were a lawyer, a society man and
a member of the board of managers, who
! at twenty-five years represented the bene-
| factions of his uncle's last will and tesla
| ment in the direction of the hospital; also
| a very few young doctors, college
! student and the writer, whom the women
| would persist in referring 10 as ''jOurn-
| alist"
well, 81 continued DR.. Ellen, when the
| men had been properly impressed with a
| sense of their culpable ignorance, and
with the admiration for the wisdom of
| their hostesses in striped bingham and
black cashmere, well, bromides, taken
| regularly, surely induce epilepsy soften
!. ing of the brain, paresis. OF course they
| don't do il all at once, but you just get in
| to the habit of taking bromide of POTASH
UNI for everything and see where you
come out. A dose of bromide is first rate
to relieve a violent headache. If you are
tired out with a hard days work it is
| wonderful how say twenty grains will
pick you up If you go to bed and can't
| sleep, half a drachm beats choral"
'Out of sight; I've tried it," said the
lawyer.
BEWARE OF BROMIDEs.
Exactly" pursued DR.. Ellen. ''Don't
| try it too often, my friend. There is my
! quarrel with the soda water man. He
won't cOntne himself to selling cOnfec-
toner's soda water and mineral waters,
but he must go and sell pick-me-ups.
| Here are some of the signs I've seen in
street cars and at the soda fountains:
Out last nightl Try a bromo-fzz.'
| Temperance cocktail-beats whisky out
of sight 'Corpse-reviver, strictly medi-
cal and nOn-alcoholic.' After late hours
take Barker's liver tonic with soda, no
headache in the morning Shopping
and tired, bromo's the thing and so on.
'Bromos of all sorts till you can't rest.
They're all bromides, every one
Then they sell caliSaya. Judge -
rode home with me on late street car
the other night from that musicale. The
judge abhOrs Wagner and he just waited
around about the time the affair let out
to see me home. While he waited the
judge got thirsty but there isn't any
place to drink but drug store near the
AreOpaguS, you know. Anyhow he went
to the drug store and the word 'caiisaya,
in big letters caught his eye, and he
drank some. Well, he told me in d
strictly confidential way on the way here
that it affected him like a dram of spir-
it's"
The men laughed at this, but the girls"
didn't look surprised at the assertion.
Il laughed. too,p said DIR. Ellen, but
know a young man who was Kelley cured
and began to drink that stun, thinking il
harmless, and he got intoxicated on it
one night, and was brought into our alco-
holic ward in patrol wagon. So there
You men ought to stop these druggists
and confectiOners and dry goods shops
effect they know next TO nothing. They
win degrade the race if you don't look
out.