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Show The Drlnki That are Dangeroui. When the Trench people, who are supposed to know more than uny oth-cis oth-cis ubout food nnl drink especially tho latter begin to decry certain popular pop-ular beverages It Is llmo for us to lake a leaf from the Gallic book und make It our own foi a very large clasfl of Aniei leans, that drinks much, though It contiilns few dtunkirds, consumes un Immense quunittv of stimulants nnd uppttlrciH wlih 1'icnili inmes The 1'iench Acndiinv of Medicine has advised ad-vised the Gov ci nmi nt to prohibit by liw the sale of ilnlnthe nnkclte, vermouth ver-mouth and ihnitieuse nn well ns ell. nnd nil classes of hltteis" Alcohol has been the bugbrnr of previous vppo. nenta of the di Ink habit but th cad-ems cad-ems finds mote dnngeious cons uenls than alcohol In (he omiounds named nnd in some olheis It chnrges Hie various bitters which ure the bases of all rocktalH nnd many ' temper-mice temper-mice dilnks' so r tilled with abound-Inir abound-Inir In serious menacen to health! the essential pilnel Ie of nhslnthe nnd vermouth ver-mouth otto or olhei of which la used In almost iveiy 'pick-me-up," with being a poisonous stomachic Irritant, anisette supposcdlv n mil 1 cordial fnr It never "goes to the head," with containing con-taining an essence which by Inhalation Inhala-tion inn i-njopend physical animation; while Chartreuse, long piepared only bv a religious brotherhood, and supposedly sup-posedly still compounded according to tho original formula, Is said by the Arademj to be verj poisonous nnd to contain thirteen Ingredients that are dangerous to health. Such an Indictment Indict-ment from Buch a source Is far more nffrlghtlng than nn thing the prohibitionists prohibi-tionists hnvo told us about alcohol. Harper's Weekly, |