Show ALCOHOL FOR LA GRIPPE la grippe la Is developing a fiendish propensity which was never suspected until a day or two ago when it was discovered that the satanic disease was going about among mankind and choosing for its victims the worlds pillars of morality and soberness it has been demonstrated by the doctors that it will not mingle with drunkards upon any consideration this fact was announced and the people ol 01 paris advised to go to and fortify therne themselves elves with the fluid the result was that within three days 1500 citizens were hauled by the police for intoxication this is hard lock lack there is no doubt that these people were sacrificing their long cherished convictions for the benefit of science it is a plain case of helping the doctors to demonstrate the efficacy of a much needed remedy tue doctors should be assessed at least half the sentence or the remedy be declared void by the state until they demonstrate its success in person for them to receive a triumph with a debt of base baso ingratitude in their hearts would be a stigma to the profession besides there is room for serious doubt whether the discovery has added anything of momentous value to the world it if only the inebriates are secure from the plague it is a question worth considering whether a world peopled entirely with such citizens citizen 8 would be best off with more or less of them |