The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31
JUST AL|TTLE
FOR EMERGENCY
Whisky Available for First Aid
to the Injured.
Stories Told of Magic Appear
ance of Pocket FlaSkS.
FROM UNEXPECTED QUARTERS
Eight Bottles in One House
Within Ten Minutes.
Minister to the Rescue in Case
of Snakebite.
FROM UNEXPECTED QUARTERS

Ever notice the number of private
whisky TASKS available in dry COM
munity in an emergency"
A woman state house employee
slipped that question to a bunch of
state officials and employees few
days ago. Evidently the query stirred
up a reserve supply of memories. In
ten minutes there were stories avail
able from which the saloon league
might gather some campaign mate
rial. Almost everyone had contrl-
bution-a whisper tale of the pistol
pocket whisky flask that came to the
rescue in an emergency
OF course the whisky bottle is con-
ira band. in Kansas. 1t is illegal and
is not admitted tC polite society
Kansans have been taught by educa-
ton and legislative enactment to
frown on alcohol But in an emer-
gency. Well, that's different!
Really, don't you know, 1t is a
strange thing the number of whisky
bottles that are suddenly available
for emergency and first aid to the in
jured treatment
Most of the members OF the niue
state house party were women. one
of them had taken tumble down
flight of stairs only the night before.
1t Was an Awful Bump.
My, but it was an awful bump"
said the young woman: I just
missed
fell bumpety-bump to the first land
ing When 1 awoke, my sister was
calling to a neighbor. Instead of wax
ing that particular neighbor. she
awoke half the people IN our Vot-
irIs precinct.
lust when I began to sit up and
get my bearings, the neighbors began
TO arrive. 1t really is a matter or
small concern as to the manner in
which they were dressed. They came
on the run and when people jump out
of bed to aid the injured, they don't
dress their hair or see that their ties
are on straight. And DO you Know
there were eight bottles of whisky in
our House in ten minutes. Honestly
if you knew the names of some of the
contributors, there would be church
Investigations that would eclipse the
Jerry Botkin and Henry thinner
probes in point of news"
Then another testified. She lives in
q fashionable rOoming house on a
more or less aristocraic west END
street. Last winter she suffered from
a severe case of the grip.
Our landlady was a regular cruSad-
er against liquor in any FORM, SAID the
inmate of the fashionable rooming
house. NO man ever had the nerve
to ask permission to slip case of beer
into the house for private consumption.
She would assassinate him. That wo-
man preached temperance morning,
noon and night. We had temperance
Fourteen Offers of Liquor.
Then 1 was sick. Honestly, 1
thought 1 would die. Just when I
would have given a months pay for
some stimulant, a man sent word that
he had a little private stock that
would be placed at my disposal. BY
the end of the day, I had received
fourteen private and sealed offers of
LIQUOR assistance from persons living
in that house. Positively, I didn't
know there was so much whisky in
Topeka.
But what do you think That night
the landlady herself slipped quietly to
my room. Honey she said, L just
thought I would bring you a little
home remedy Then she produced
from somewhere a quart bottle that
was two-thirds full of a brand of whis-
ky that no one but connoisseur of
liquors would buy
Another employee-this time a man
told of a trip with a minister. A
member of the party was bitten by a
rattleSnake-real, sure enough, live
rattlesnake. Who produced the whis-
ky? The minister, of course.
Prohibition certainly prohibits the
sale of liquor in Kansas said the
young woman who still carried the
marks from her fall down the flight
of stairs. But what 1 would like to
know she continued. 'is the cause
and reason for so many private stocks
in a dry community"