Show CHOKED BY CAPSULES A Fresh Drug Cleric Almost Kills a Young Man in Buffalo A L Husted had been eating to many sweets and things during the holidays and wasnt feeling very well Last night his mind went back to the days of his childhood and he remember remem-ber d that when he felt that way after Christmas back in the 70s his mother used to ladle him out a large and slippery dose of caster oil So Mr Husted escorted his recollection recollec-tion over to Lyman Sloans apothecary apothe-cary shop and then aired it before the smug and chipper clerk How much oil do you want asked the clerk Now Mr Husted didnt know The exact quantity had been lost to him by the scuffle that usually attended its administration From his remembrance remem-brance of the state he thought it must be three or four gallons but he was reasonably sure it was less So he made a mental compromise and answered airily Oh a couple or so of tablespoonfuls tablespoon-fuls Capsule or glass queried the clerk That castor oil could be taken without with-out that dismal taste was news to Mr Husted but he welcomed it and said Capslue briefly So the clerk went back and pried 1 one out of a case and lugged it up to the counter I was about the size of a Rugby football and looked as yellow as the oil tastes Mr Husted ventured to remark that it looked large The clerk smiled pityingly as one who is accustomed to see castor oil swallowed by the barrelful Mr Husted protested that his throat was not large enough The clerk laughed aloud So with all hope gone and more than half wishing he hadnt been so reminiscent remin-iscent Mr Husted boosted the bolus up with both hands and made a gag at it In less than half a minute Mr Hus ted was lying on the floor clutching febly at his throat with both hands and kicking hard with both legs for lack of other profundity while the clerk his hauteur laid aside like a linen duster was shrieking through the telephone for all the doctors within Krupp gun range Two minutes more and Mr Husted was lying exhausted on the counter and one of the attendant corps of physicians was holding out something that looked like a set of sailors oilskins skins which he had just fished out of the Hustedian aesophagus The doctor told the clerk that it was a careless thing to do to a man The clerk who had recovered his selfcon fidence said he could take those capsules cap-sules a easily as he could Little Rocks and went back and got one to prove it by That clerk knows better now The doctors fished the remnants of the capsule out of him quicker than they did out of Mr Husted only because they didnt have to be telephoned for The clerk says doctors do know something Mr Husted wishes he was a boy again Chicago Times |