Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-06-06
ABSINTH'S SPREAD.

= ADOlNlH y OF DGGADl.-
GREEN EYED FAIRY SLOWLY sEcuR-
ING A F00THoLD in AMERICA. /
Some Cafes In Various Cities Now
Sell No Other Liquor-Terrihle Eff
fects of the Drink Ably Described
by French Physicians.
Absinth, ''the fairy with the green
eyes," as they call it in France, is
turning those green eyes more and
more on the United States, and Amer
leans are more and more falling vic
Tins to their hypnotic influence. Sixty
years ago absinth was practically I'm.
known in France. During the Algerian
war Q844-47) the soldiers were advised
to mix absinth with their wine as a
febrifuge. On their return they brought
with them the habit Of drinking it,
which is now so widely and so disas-
trously disseminated in France and
which croakers predict will be in an
other twenty-five years as widely and
disastrously disseminated in America.
Regarding the effects of absinth. no
two describe them in the same way.
Devotees and doctors differ radically.
To be sure, the one class speaks merely
Of its temporary effect, the other of it's
ultimate and permanent effect. One
Frenchman, waxing enthusiastic, has
exclaimed: "For the hearts wide
wounds, which bleed internally; for
the grief Of lost love- which never
can be regained; for the sting of re-
morse and the gnawing prosecutions of
conscience-for all these I can find a
remedy. For the poison Of memory
can provide an antidote, blessed
balm that soothes the wronged spirit
into total forgetfulness of it's injury
and opens before the mind fresh and
wonderful field Of vision where are
found glories that the world knows
nothing Of and for the enjoyment of
which a man might we'll be content to
starve and suffer and sacrifice every
thing, even love. 1t is the most mar
velous cordial in all the world. Drink
and you will find your sorrows trans
muted, yourself transformed being"
A mere ordinary American who lacks
the French enthusiasm and the French
poetry says: Its the dopiest drink I
know of. You simply don't care wheth-
er school keeps or not; you are SUBJ
timely Indifferent to the sorrows and
joys Of this mortal life; you simply
sit and let the world drift by" An
other Frenchman says, lit is my ia
vorite remedy against the kicks of for
tune-a benevolent green fairy, at a
! single wave Of whose wand sorrow
fees" And another prosaic American
says, 'The best thing to keep man in
good humor."
What has particularly aroused good
temperance folk, says the Brooklyn
Eagle, is the opening in New Orleans
and washington and even in staid
Philadelphia and Puritan Boston Of
cafes of the true Partisan type, in
| which there is no liquor sold but alb
smith.
| French physicians, who have proba-
bly, studied the effects Of absinth more
exhaustively than any other, say that
these effects differ materially on the
steady tippler and on the periodic ex-
cessive drinker. The man who goes of
on frequent sprees has at first the feel
ing Of exaltation common to all in
toXication. The increasing dose neces-
sary to produce this state deranges the
digestion and, while destroying the ap-
petite, induces an inappeasable thirst
1t produces giddiness, tingling in the
ears and Authorizations Of sight and
hearing, constant mental oppression
and anxiety, loss of brain power and
eventually idiocy. Steady tipplers'
symptoms begin with muscular CULVER.
ing and decrease Of physical strength.
Soon the hair begins to fall. out, and
the face assumes melancholy aspect
and becomes emaciated, sallow and
wrinkled. Lesion of the brain follows
and the victim is haunted by horrible
dreams and decisions. Finally grad.
ual paralysis lands him in the grave.
1t is only fair to add that the afore.
said French physicians. who are natu'
rally experts in the toxicology of alb
smith, attribute most of it's evil ef
fects to adulterations. They deny that
either NORWOOD or any of the essen
tial oils used in pure absinth would
produce any such effects; that it is to
the strong spirit used and to such adul
terations as salts Of copper that the
deadly power Of the liquor must be at
tributed. But none of them dreams OF
denying that absinth produces proper
tionately far worse effects than brandy
or any other strong spirits. So that, OF
the whole, it would seem the part Of
discretion for Americans to avoid tn,
fairy with the green eyes, for the hgh
thereof Is dangerous.
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