The Washington weekly post., 1899-07-18

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e You like It. doctorg asked the girl.
NOW, don't say no. or I'll never play
tteoe for you again. You don't want ar
otherF They're not strong enough for the
palate masculine suppose. Come. NAM
ma, well have another lust 70 show the
bad doctor what he might drink instead
OF horrid beer and wine
Il called upon the mother that night.
insisted upon unlocking the family slsel-
eton- IL Is not an uncommon one. The
story OF a man who. with the fever cf
gold dust in his veins and the fiery meScul
| bunting his senses. married a woman e
the mining camp. She died years after
ward in mansion on Van Ness avenue
Of delirium tremens.
Such were the grandparents OF this de-
votee OF perfume cocktails. The curse
had skipped her own father, but she is
a daughter OF the vine. and unless some
thing is done these perfume dccOCtiOns
Will be the beginning of the same terrible
end with her.
Harmless Little Things.
The mother laughed at my warning. All
her girl friends drink those harmless lit
tie things she protested. They never
drink enough TO amount 10 anything. At
worst. it but d silly fad, not u danger
Gus one
Not dangerous one, II is the most in
sidious ally OF the demon of drink But I
NcNAN -ApN ApAAN AlAt Ailt LlOAlltl NUlAl ItL
make her zee that this perfume habit was
the first stumble toward the chasmS where
those who fall seldom rise again.
Il had a long talk with the daughter. I
helped her brush away the cobwebs from
her memory The picture that rose fri ght-
ened her. II was her grandmother pin,on-
ed by strong arms, cUrsing and shriekinsi
! told her of her own danger II she coaXed
her probable inheritance for liquor into
being by drinking perfume
She thanked me for IL, and swora she
would never touch IL again. She confessed
that of late she had noticed that her
fondness for perfume was growing daily,
She had never realized what it meant. |
think the warning came just in time.
We teach our girls to avoid alcoholic
stimulants that are known as such. We
do not permit them to go to the sideboard
and help themselves from the decanters.
We would be horrifed were a little child
to sip from the whisky flask.
But when big sister, who has
learned the trick at school. goes to the
dressing case and uses the cologne bottle
internally as well as externally, we smile.
mixed with waterr
so little sister, when she is playing
house, bethinks her of the perfume bot
tie and pours little into the water for
play tea Their systems become habitu-
ated gradually to alcohol. So that IL never
upsets them. Then there comes a day
fangs Of the habit have struck too deep.
just to BE Funny.
Naturally there are children and older
girls who have tasted perfume once or
twice, or several times, and 1t awakens in
them no craving for more. They drink it
now and then because the other girls do
They are in no danger of becoming ad-
dicted to that or any other intoxicant.
Dt,tu hot Of NH -, l.
thirst?
'The habit Is particularly prevalent in
fashionable bOarding-schools. They drink
perfume and water at their little midnight
feasts. Not that they like it, they pro-
test. oh, no! Just because it's so funny.
don't you know; so freakish.'
1t may be funny for nine girls. but the
tenth, who will have to fight 1t seriously
or succumb, what of her?
1.-The woman who drinks and has no
other liquor at hand often drains the
cologne bottle. So, in inverse ratio, will
the child who begins with perfume salts
fy her more mature cravings with other
liquors.
Were 1t not for perfume they might go
through life without coming in close con-
tact with temptation. They have been
taught Of the evil of other drinks, but
perfume has never been taboOed A girl
who would scOrn whisky would not object
10 perfume. II is not the thing for a girl
to drink whisky, but perfume Is laughing
ly countenanced as a silly girlish fad.
"If il were only silly there would be
no cause for alarm. But for a daughter
of the vine il is playing with fire and TAX
ing chances of scOrching the soul"
Perfume cocktails? Why, of course.
we drink them" said the society girl.
surely no one can object to them. 1t
isn't as though We drank them 10 excess.
Just now and them, when the girls are all
together for a little 'heart-tO-heart
Some of the girls prefer their perfume
In tea. / like il that way myself; Just a
few drops in the tea and you have no
idea how IL improves it, Others mix TWO
or even three kinds OF perfume with
water and still others mix water and
perfume and gin and call 1t a perfume fizz.
Preference of Society Girls.
II think, on the whole. most of the
girls prefer the perfume fizz 10 any OF
the other drinks with perfume. We use
very little gin, just a tiny suspicion of IL.
A perfume fizz is really rot half bad We
make them for the boys, and though they
laugh at the idea, / notice they usually
ask for more.
do some people really believe that per-
fume arouses a taste for liquor? | had
never thought OF 1t from that point OF
view. We used to drink it I'm school for
fun. and do il now from habit. II has
never created a desire for more with me.
but perhaps 1t is responsible for several
OF. the girls dr.. However, that's an
other story
How silly! It's nonsense for me to
think OF such thing. OF course the per-
fume doesn't lead 10 other drinks. It's
absurd.
''The girls who smoke cigarettes often
din the end in the perfume bottle. draw
the cologne up so that 10 peTmeates the
tobacco and then light them. They say
you can both taste and smell the perfume,
and that it's awfully good.
Il don't want 10 believe that the per-
fume habit Is 90 dangerous or that u will
create an appetite. These 'unto-the- third
and-fOurth- degeneration cranks always
make my blood run cold
I've heard my mother tell that when
Sibyl Sanderson was a girl, she was in
vited 20 house party The host did not
believe in intoxicating beverages. Sibyt
drank up her own perfume. and one
night after a particularly exciting game
OF billiards. she shocked host and guests
by proposing that every one contribute
their perfume 10 the punch bowl, as 4
cologne cocktail was better than none
Now, Of course. that's going too far
But II when the girls are alone they
drink them JCst for fun, there's no need
perfume cocktail now ] have some 'peaI
d'espaPne which Is the very best CO.
iogne for perfume cocktail %
''Sip H." commanded the cologne mixer
OtpsAHN
Ugh, biting. pricking sensation. that
brought tears 70 tho eyes. a peculiar
odor. ard taste that rauseated.
J must have put IN too much for the
first time" said La Dame aux Cologne.
Il guess a perfume flip would be better.
III tell you somebody who makes them
% perfection"
An Artistic Mixer.
The somebody who makes perfume
nipz 70 perfection proved 10 be z gilt
haired club Johnny. who has an American
name, speaks English with a French ac-
cent and wears the Officlsi feZ o. the SUI
tan.
He modestly Acknowledged being the in
yertor OF the perfume Hips.
The girls like perfume" he said "and
occasionally thrust ~ on us. They call
water ana cologne Il perfume cocktail.
Improve that with gin ana you have a
perfume fzz.
In a naoInent Of inspiration I conceived
of the perfume ntD Ifa really u9ff fasg