The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-16
NEW YORK's LATEST Triple.
Has Become Fashionable to Drink
CaIisaya at the Drug stores.

CRItsayR at 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 po-
liceman who drank so much of the stuff
he couldn't tell a burglar from a 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 kindle the fire with the bric-a-
brac. A gentleman who makes a practice
or 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 a
dime wants 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
|
| general, use calisaya, whose victims
! are affected as 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 a natural death, the use of
| cologne as a beverage is extending, ac-
| 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, it is a
| branch of a 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 calisaya
| 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 busi-
ness in the morning, and they take many
| another drink in the course of the un-
| naturally exciting day.
| They drink it first because they have
| heard it is quieting to the nerves and an
| excellent tonic to the entire system
| After they have sampled few drinks
| and failed to receive the supposed bene-
| fit they keep it up just to see If the thing
! will do any good. And after that they
j become "fends'' and drink on the slight
I est proVocation.
Calisaya, we are told by the people who
don't have intimate dealings with it, is
| the great friend of man. 1t is sort of q
| second cousin to the CALLING yet benef1-
| cent quinine 1t has its efficaciousness
where certain ills are concerned. Thus it
| is liable, as are liable all good things
to abuse, say the untempted ones. And
speaking of temptation, the. excuse for
| the cultivation of calisaya seems incom-
| 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-
| neficent effects of that liquor. 1t 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.