The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-16
NEW Y0RK'S LATEST Triple.
Has Become Fashionable to Drink
Calisaya at the Drug stores.

Nus become FashlOnable to Drink
Calisaya mt the Drug stores.
Letter to Philadelphia North American
The drug store people say the drinking
OF calisaya is responsible for incalculable
misery In this town. Not long ago a DO
Hceman who drank so much of the stuff
he couldn't tell burglar from bottle
OF mucilage, loaded up for one grand,
sweet song of f1nality. He consumed an
unwonted quantity of the stuff, and he
and his family were buried two days
later. Sixth avenue talked for days of
the man possessed of the little red devil,
the man who had suddenly appeared at
his home, shot his wife and three chill
dren and then received the leaden re-
lease himself.
Calisaya makes Its subjects want to go
out and kfndle the fire with the bric-a-
brac. gentleman who makes a practice
of drinking large quantities of the stuff
becomes possessed OF an overwhelming
desire to scalp his favorite son and walk
across to Governors island on his hands.
He feels like biting his initials in the door
knobs and lynching his best friend
The druggists say they can't stop the
thing. They have calisaya for sale at the
soda fountains, and If anyone with
dime wants a drink, why he gets it.
that's all. While they do not exactly
defend the character of calisaya, they
urge in palliation that there are lots of
other drugs in general, but not quite so
general, use as calisaya, whose victims
are affected Enthusiastically as are the
slaves of the little red devil For in
stance, they say, there is the cologne
habit.
Women drink cologne today Just as men
drink whiskey. They have the stuff put
up in dainty little TASKS, with mono
grams, golden chains and all that. Far
from dying natural death, the use of
cologne as a beverage is extending, &C
cording to the testimony of the druggists
Still, 1t is difficult to figure where this
excuses calisaya-
The favorite drug store Of the Tender
loin" has a branch, or, rather, 1t is a
branch of downtown establishment
This lower store is located at the en-
trance of the kingdom of Mammon More
Wall street powers than would like to
have their names mentioned in this con-
nection are addicted to the use Of cahsaya
and they make frequent short pilgrim
ages from their offices to the pharmacy
where the stuff is to be had. They take
an initial drink before they begin bust
ness in the morning, and they take many
another drink in the course of the I'M
naturally exciting day.
They drink it first because they have
heard 1t is quieting to the nerves and an
excellent tonic to the entire system.
After they have sampled a few drinks
and failed to receive the supposed bene-
Mt they keep 1t up just to see If the thing
/ Will do any good. And after that they
become "hends" and drink on the slight
est Drovocation.
Calisaya, we are told by the people who
don't have intimate dealings with 1t, is
the great friend of man. 1t is a sort of a
second cousin to the CALLING yet benefl-
cent quinine. 1t has It's righteousness
where certain Ills are concerned Thus 1t
is liable, as are liable all good things,
to abuse, say the interrupted ones And,
speaking Of temptation, the excuse for
the cultivation of calisaya seems incon-
prehensible to the normal. 1t doesn't
taste good. 1t doesn't look good. 1t
doesn't smell good. 1t doesn't make one
feel good. 1t is bitterer than the bitterest
stout, without having claim to the be-
nef1cent effects Of that liquor. It tastes
like the leaves you may have chewed
! when you were a child roaming through
the farm land, so bitter you Immediately
spat them out, but so persistent that the
taste remained with you for hours There
! is nothing of the exhilarating quality of
wine in calisaya, nothing of the bracing
| effect of whisky or brandy