Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-17
7 wenty-eight Memoirs Pre-
scented During Past Year
to the National Acad-
envy of Medicine.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
PARIS, August l, 1907.
Z F Frenchmen don't stop drinking green,
8 yellow snow-white and sky-blue pick
z me-ups the whole race promises to end
j, in shady, high-walled gardens, digging
for buried treasure.
In ten years past greatness from absinthe
and thirty-nine pink-edged 'aperitifs" has
increased 81 per cent. This year twenty
eight memoirs on the subject have been
presented to the Academy of Medicine.
The academy OF Moral and Political Sci
enccs has awarded money to four of the
twenty eight brochures on the national
peril. Drs Vlaud and Vasnier have printed
theirs as books, while the report of NJ
Cheysson the academy's secretary, sums up
the question.
This official document deals largely with
inquiries made in private and public luna
tic asylums; and its three classes make
gaudy reading:
Mental confusion, hallucinatory delirium,
epilepsy weakened faculties and general
paralysis, are simple cases, in which the
intoxication is exclusive cause.
The same complicated by degeneracy
partly due to the intoXicat.on of parents
may be called the second degree While
Picturesque craziness, including mNltas,
systematized de.iriums may be put down
as the finished product.
A Few Figures.
The total number examined in the paying
lunatic asylums of Paris amounted, in jan
uary. 1907 to 9932-of which $50 were
women, say, ladies of means. These are
the interesting cases graduates of best ver-
mouths, absinthes. bitters. cocainized and
medicated wines and perfumed spirits The
common foolish cases examined in the pub
lie institutions amounted to II ,54I-an in
crease Of 81 per cent in ten years.
All doubtful cases of degenerates-with
pick-me-ups as only partial causes-Were
excluded but when the drinks were of a
mixed order even khrounir amateurs who
cool their hot valves with iced beer laced
with sweet currant sirup were set down
among the toilers of the shady gardens.
Khroumir dates from the expedition
against the khroumir tribes of Constantine
in 1881, ending in the French protectorate
OF Tunis AS the Khroumirs are mixed
Arabs and Berbers, the drink was a
mixture of beer and currant syrup. and as
the tribes were turbulent and agitated, so
the syrup's sugar, fermenting In the stom-
ach with beer alcohol. while cooling. cop
pers, raised new thirst for the opalescent
green drink.
khroumir Is a drink of Marseilies, and,
like hot towns impossible to make pala-
table or digestive without certain low
brewed French beer Don't go khroumir-
ing.
Toulon a "Live Town"
Toulon, an opium-s smoking center. origi-
mated several far more famous drinks
That moderate-sized town alone In 1905
absorbed $4,000 quarts of brandies and
spirits and 765,s70 quarts of vermouths
and other yellow. mauye, sky-blue and
vermilion aperitifs
Toulon has 2,476 bars and cafes. many
run and served by ladies only. Ind It is
the universal French experience that
women push these connections, which are
equally useful to perfume the handker-
chief or tell gold from base metals.
The parrot Is our old friend green alb
sinthe. drunk green. ie.. without admix-