Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1918 — SEES PAREGORIC AS MENACE [ARTICLE]

SEES PAREGORIC AS MENACE

Writer Asserts That Undue Indulgence In Mixture Results in a Form of Intoxication. TW! _ The fast young man at our boarding house has been showing unaccountable signs of alcoholic exhilaration. Two or three times lately, in the deadly dull calm of the dinner session, he has come in with a flushed face and glassy eyes and taken charge of the conversation. Last evening the schoolteacher was telling about the splendid progress of the welfare work, when the F. Y. M. broke in with a risque story and laughed boisterously at his own remarks. Some of us, in whom the spark of life is still latent, took the F. Y. M. aside, with the intention of ascertaining the source of his levity, and what I learned I am slipping to my friends for their Information. It’s paregoric—absolutely. What do you think of a sport who will step out with a bottle of paregoric and make an evening of it? Two nights ago he came in with a dent in his derby and his cane split, bringing us all back with a Jerk to the old wet days. Here is a new danger to our sober and happy manhood. I write this to warn mother that she must keep her eye on the paregoric bottle. Paregoric, I am told, is well endowed with alcohol. While the baby may need It, father is at •no time entitled to its benefits, if any. A paregoric spree is one of the most Irresponsible adventures in the world. If the home bottle is unprotected, I fear that father is likely to show up some evening boisterously and unreasonably happy.—G. M. F., in Seattle Post-Intelligencer.