| Show SLATES OF QUININE The Growing Abuse of that Drug as Reported by an Uptown Apothecary Have you noticed the growing use of quinine 7 druggist in the vicinity of the I Fifth Avenue Hotel asked last night At the same moment he bowed and smiled in to ft tall redwhiskered man who strolled Just watch this customer he said The man was very thin and cadaverous looking Without saying a word ho walked up to the soda fountain and the boy drew out a pillbox poured three pills into the palm of the customers hand set a glass of mineral water in front of him and turned to the next customer The tall man swallowed the pills drank the water turned on his heel and stalked away with another pleasant nod to the proprietor That costs him a dollar and forty cents a week said the proprietor Hand before long it will kill him He started to take one fivegrain pill every night about six months ago he now takes fifteen fif-teen grains night before he goes home so that i will brace him up for his dinner din-ner Within a month he will be taking tak-ing twenty grains a night Of course he takes it at home besides what he gets here Ive gone out of my way three or four times t explain to him that ho had a trnnrl deal better drink rum even if he is deacon in a church but his answer is a simple one He says quinine makes him feel cheerful and strong and it has no ill effects He tried stopping it once and caved in hence he wants to know why he should stop You cant combat such reasoning as that Have you many such regular customers custom-ers Well to be accurate we have only three men who come in every day and pay at the end of the week but there are many others who take their quinine as regularly as most drinking folks take whisky I is certainly great temptation to weakly organized and frail people All they have to do is to swallow a pill or two and they feel robust wideawake i and cheerful The practice grows on gows them continually and seems to be spreading for our sales of quinine are constantly growing A good proportion of the custom comes from women who I grow fatigued or weary while shopping and who instead of buying a nutritious luncheon or drinking a wholesome bottle of porter or ale resort to the insidious quinine pill |
