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Show ONIONS, SALT AND LIQUOR FOR A WOMAN. Mrs. Katherine Gould spent one rail-lion rail-lion dollars in eight years for liquor, onions, salt and chicken feed. A million mil-lion spent in onions and, salt and I washed down with strong drink must have afforded Mrs. Gould as much real comfort as an old sot obtains at tho free lunch counter. I There are millions being squandered each year by women of the perverted tastes of Mrs. Gould. These woifien of the idle rich are restless, nervous, dissatisfied beings, pandering to false appetites. They arise tired, seek diversions di-versions new and novel, and end the day vlth twitching nerves. Their nights are sleepless because of their dissipations. Gradually they develop habits which claim them asictims, and they end their days either in melancholy mel-ancholy or some other form of nervous ner-vous collapse. , , There are other women, robust and mentally strong, who never see a dollar dol-lar beyond the Immediate wants of their famllics.who sometimes sigh for the. wealth of a Mrs. Gould, but they would not forfeit their health and mental men-tal balance for the mH1fnn nf r, T)nr.L: ! efeller. After all, true wealth can not be measured in dollars. Mrs. Gould can have her onions and salt and liquor, but the woman of plain habits and common sense will thank good fortune that there has never come to her a temptation which, if accepted tey be-j be-j ing .beyond her power to resist, would hae filled her mind with wild cravings crav-ings and hallucinations. |