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Show USE OT DRUGS BY WOMEN. Women's Nerves Shattered by Reckless Reck-less Indulgence in Stimulants. -The subject of w'omen's nerves brings one to that of the drug habit, which Is likewise under the microscope of publicity pub-licity once more. It must be admitted that aforetime women took less stimulants stimu-lants and fewer nerve sedatives than now. They did drink, to be sure, as Is shown by the startling records of the daily allowance of beer commonly made, to a lady in waiting in the early eighteenth eight-eenth century: but though It may have ruined their figures and complexions, It did not do so much harm In the end as alcohol, wines and liqueurs. And even these, perhaps, are less pernicious than the Insidious drugs which, it must be reluctantly admitted, are freely taken by women of the present day. A dozen years ago It was an open secret that morphia and cocaine were enslaving fashionable women mors than all the spirituous liquors ever distilled. And now chemical research has made It easier than ever for woman to Indulge secretly In the drug habit. Deadly sedatives are now prepared In the daintiest dain-tiest and apparently most Innocent forms. It Is not too much to sty that any girl, if she be so minded, can obtain ob-tain morphia, cocaine, red lavender, or anything else of the kind she may fancy, as easily as the factory girl her cheap and nery spirits; nor U the statement state-ment exaggerated that in boudoirs there are far mors drugs consumed than there are alcoholio beverages tn smoking-rooms. London World. |