The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-30
IEN YORK IS DRUG HUNGRY
!OTS OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO SEEK MORNING BRACERS.

rsSua rilla and Ammonia the Greal Eeminine Tipple-Other Remedies IKE the Strained Norves-Widening frfela of the Druggist-The Simpler DTinks.
 The white-aproned attendant behind |he counter mixed some brownish, fiz- N looking liquid in a glass and added daeh of some transparent stuff from
 small bottle. It was for a woman igtomer and after she had paid her Eheck and departed an inquisitive man Sho was having glass of vichy asked: ElssMay ask what it was that you iFred just now to that woman?" SVssEHrsaparilla.
 EsgsBut the last addition from the small !hite hottle?'
 5T&piritS of ammonia. It's the great xrntnine tipple of the day. Only school 3rl9 and the matinee crowd drink the Fe cream soda any more. In fact, we've 3Ven up keeping it altogether. Once & theater and the party season sets
 VIC are called on for all sorts of brac- IG Ii the way of drugs mixed in
 Int 1t an injurious habit?"
 $3If Is more of a fad than a habit. &1I come in for your vichy every morn-
 don't you? If you were in the 6kit of staying up late and eating late lbpers you'd apt to ask for something
 &he vichy to make you feel ready for i1y number of men stop in on their xX to their offices mornings and have 36ers. About 10 and il the shopping S106n begin to show up. After lunch
 there is another crowd and so on all fi10Gh the day we are kept busy fix
 NH these mixtures for folks that get
 {he habit of having them and de-
 HI on them.
 Is only of late years that women &8&o to order these things. They used
 6&Ye lemonade and soda and then
 NAxrees the hot bouillons and clam N yhG were served over the druggists
 1}iter and saved them visit to
 hurant
 's3y and by they got to saving a visit
 ke family physicians by dropping
 III the drug store and describing TIT Symptoms. Now there is rush.
 trade in most of the fashionable @x4iStg for feminine bracers, chief )0HE whi oh comes the sarsparilla
 Ammonia.
 course anything of that sort if {4Svered in is apt to have a bad ef
 @ But the portions of aqua ann l0Xl}A, bicarbonates and bromos which {H nerve are very minute, as a rule.
 Y act on the mind more than on IF. .body and the patient speedily feels lIjSXed after taking dose that Is of- 3 ttSiies lost in the soda that is served Nowadays women are going in more
 these innocuous drug bracers than 0tls A man is very apt to take bran W and soda. cocktail or something xHed over R bar in preference to soda IlS0 the various mineral waters are N6lar just now.
 Hut women come futtering in all (X for headache cures mixed in phos- {Ite and calisaya and soda and pepsin
 pepcrmint. Headache cures and
 oh regulators are the things called 6 inoet frequently after the spirits of
 jf01ia, which Is stimulant, pure
 in1ple.
 It9re was a great run on calisaya SpcoA few years ago, especially
 tuE men who were wearing off from S3Fe Intoxicating beverages. Tn reality fse es~xy, sr
 any other if it is carried to ex-
 tlies. Of late years the evil effects &Qooa as tonic if taken in too con-
 doses have become more generally IdFn and people are afraid of 1t. It$ There was mixture of iron, quinine 9iQ strychnine that used to be called E6f Constantly few years ago and was ]cuiated to make the dead rise and lice if occasion required, it was so far &hing in its effects Then there was m on bromos.
 &$sssYalerlan is rarely called for now I44yg 1t Is one of the old fashioned |3medies. Then there is pepsin and 39permint draught made up for indi- 1ti6n that has a clientele. X ociety women often stop their car- OA tlIc way u all GIllelldIIlIlGTl I11 will order one of these nerve-stead- 4 They don't care to take anything 1k the sort at home, but they can al- 16ys indulge quietly at soda foun- X M elt1er lemonade made with plenty
 l&nnOn juice and clipped ice is l1itak that must be perfectly mixed 1d &days. There Is a constant call for X md 1t is needless to say that 1t Is a
 better remedy for stomach out of 3flSr than all the drugs in the list. 4lSSfs9xWe can always mark the real begin &fHE of the lively season in town by the I'll which comes in over the counter (xd from hotels and private customers |4r the various tonics and restora tives k nerves kept at too high pressure. People who go into the round of N63heons and dinners and teas without Czhorough understanding of how they i11iSt avoid certain forms of refresh nxfit that are pushed on them at each Iew house will speedily become nervous md dyspeptic wrecks.
 SSssThen take the vast population of je0ple who think it mistake to go to l6d early See the throngs in the res nAlrants from 10 and Il at night until 6ng after midnight. Fancy the loads If lobster and oysters and game and |alads and rabbits they consume, night n.L +1,o