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Show Pretty Mriclinhie Eaters. The pretty, innocent little sliver trinkets ladies carry so invatlahlv and universally to tho theatre oV conccrt, and even to church, are filled with something besides the !crfumed French bonbons and sweets they are designed for. Tiny, harmelcss-looklng gray lozenges are hidden away among the candies In the honbonnicre, which contain the tiniest bit of strychnine, about one-thirtieth one-thirtieth of a grain. They aren't pleasant to the stc; but Just what thegln cocktail nr sip of alxiuthe Is to a man the strychnine lozenge is to a woman. It Is a tonic, a sedative, seda-tive, n bracer, an exhllarator all hi one. Three a day is the allowance, but If ray lady Is very lired. If the sermon ser-mon is unusually dull, If the escort, to the play proves tobea bore, If she wants her eyes to shine for someone whose admiration is dear to her, the gletmlng bonboniiicre is opened more than the regulation number of times. So ncciititmed do the w eet creatures become to the nauseating bitterness of the drug that they swallow it as smilimrly n a lmby does a sugar plum. .Vcur yurk Sua. |