Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — Belles Drinking on the Sly. [ARTICLE]

Belles Drinking on the Sly.

Do you know the latest filling for alleged smelling bottles? Brandy! At all events, I saw one that was thus utilized as a flask. It was carried by as chipper a young thing as ever yon saw. She sat next to me. I noticed that she once put it to her mouth instead of her 1 nose, and that she sneked in place of sniffing. Instantly a gill—or say two fingers—of the contents disappeared like a baby dining from a nursing bottle. Then she demurely transferred the nozzle from below her upper lip to above it, and pretended to be refreshing herself by means of the smelL Bnt the odor. -as I couldn't help knowing, was brandy. Nobody could deny, anyhow, that she took a “snifter.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.