Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-03
FRANCE IS GOING INSANE
WITH OPALESCENT ABSZW1HE
In Ten Years Greatness From the Real "Parrot' and ThirtW
Nine Pink Edged "AperitMs' Has Increased 81 Per Cent?
Victims Want to Climb Trees and Yawp, Where
upon Handouts and Hypodermic
Syringes Are Used.

c!ucking gently. seated on nine leghorn
eggs which he was Matching out, under
the impression that they were his per-
sonal product.
In those days 1t was real absinthe
stepped in alcohol. For years past 1t
has been a very complicated %alcholat.
colored with spinach. parsley, hyssop.
tincture of curcuma and indigo. and
containing in dissolution enough of the
essences of anise and sweet marjoram
to make it yellow white opalescently
when water is added.
This is why scientific memoir writ
ers make SO little difference between
absirthe and the thirty-nine other
word 'absinthe.' Others fear the
green color Cadeac and Meunier even
in their time disclosed that the manu-
facturers had added to their so-called
absinthe oils of fennel, hyssop. anise.
adiane. balm mint, melisse tof which
a concentrated hot-drops is sold to
bring ladies out of hysterfcs). angelica.
organ and mint. Absinthe, fennel and
hyssop essential oils are convulsivants.
The six others are stupeiiants.
All in Other Drinks.
You can get them all-and several
more. including the good friend called
cocaine-in the thirty-nine
striped bitlers. vermouths, cocaS, oXy-
genated or plain; all the newest rib
bon shades. arabesqued. enameled. hand
fooled, silk embroidered, 'aperitifs" or
openers of the appetite, drunk before
meals by freshmen. sophomores, sem
Tors, overland after meals by post
graduates.
Withou, The Opener theory and the
water ~carasfe, all France would already
have fallen. chanting the "Marseil-
laise,' from the green leaves and white
blossoms OF the high branches!
The r u Orinoco parrot has Il red
l head 81 nm tho RniI1nyay I .Jn1 mn
chine dile,tanti Lour into their green
absinthe drop on drop of currant sirup.
! When. To throw u bluff. You call for
absinthe and water With IL mental res
crvation. wait till the water goes,
then mix a PURGE.
All purees are thick. The common
st. Germain is ii pale green puree OF
young, new peas when it is properly
made, but when c~oncoctei from dried
peas in part for c~hea2ness the pale
green vergcs on to dirty yeilowish.
SO. bluffing with the water ~caraife.
you rour inJo your green drink, say. its
weight in the cheaper though God
given iiquid-so You have the pulee.
Ii makes Il drink las, longer. Con-
sammate buffers ior responsibility at
the end. when there is little left. dash
i'll the water With d bridget the opal
esccnce of q tcnderfoot. and the women
passing say:
"There's u gentleman ut last"
The White A5sinthe.
For prudent souls. who know that
the green color leads TO the bughouse.
there is the famous mark of oxygen
ated. MS say hcaith,' elins an un-
~spe2kably IL, man in the advertising
poster. How it is o@ysena,ed, why. no
amateur has ever asked. bat il is
snow-white ahsinthe even when mixed
With water. and shows by no degrees of
shading inte opalescence whether
you're II gentleman or not.
The Swiss Invented white absin.ile.
Only its stencil betrays Il. AND if you
take Il cheap Swiss apsinthe. pour in
one-third Its weight OF Swiss Wi
neraire lthres drops OF which on the
tongue of Il dead dog will make him
sit up and sniie) and cool the mixture
with its weight in slowly melting ice.
you have the Swiss girl"
One Swiss girl VIII galvanize a
dead one, out two nights. To brilliant
activity.
Two Swiss girls will lead him by the
hand beside still waters. in green pas-
lures, where the lark sings as she rises.
The white lady" is another reli-
able %awakener of tired youth and re-
generator of maturity. To make her
eyes shine you take white absinthe.
shaken with the whites of two fresh
eggs to form n protecting coating to
The lining OF the stomach--as old-time
sports let melted butter swim on top of
their hot scotches. Prolonged gayety
is the primary effect. S~econdarily. a
brain-jolt as if done with a bung-
starter. after Gladstone hours. The
white lady really requires a travelling
companion, or at least Il messenger boy
to- tell the cabinan where to drive the
body.
Other Bug Drinks.
: Prudent candidates for the Fair gar
dens. not hurried to quit everyday
activity mt in Soff Irint.c lilo Khrc,-
r mir W real ones. The fireman's
hose is so called because of the long,
flexible artificial straw which accom-
panied its introduction in a lady bar
> of Marseilles. There, co., originated
2 tigers milk.
4 Take fine champagne cogna mix an
! equal quantity OF orgeat sirup and fill
up with ice water. A cooling, grateful
beverage. the fireman's hose.
For tigers milk. you must nave
$ Santa Cruz rum and four liqueurs.
t Won t tell what they are. I've done
enough harm already. Fill up with ice
water.
But II you want to try poor mans
champagne, q modish public ball nov.
8 city among the decent artisans Of thu
Saint Antoine quarter of Paris, 1t II
8 easy.
You get Il bottle of French vermoutf
e not the Turin variety. nor the specia
e French vermouth called Expectation.
Just plain French vermouth. charged
with five essential oils.
You mix 1t with %unfiavored sirup-
and your are ready to DO a politenes
to a lady.
Yank her to the buffet. Fill he
k glass one-third full of the mixture
'e Then turn on the syphon.
s. Poor mans champagne! Oh. the,
dance gayly to it Sunday afternoons
l. the little artificial flower girls. worker
" In lamp shades, all kinds of articles d
Paris" pale Paris blossoms. housed ir
delicate. svelte. tender, thankful for a.
h hour OF forgetfulness and laughter.