Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1893 — She Needed it. [ARTICLE]

She Needed it.

London Telegraph. A middle-aged woman called at the chemist’s shop the other evening and asked to De served with morphine, and the assistant replied to her request with: “Is it for your husbpna, madam?” “Ob, no, sir, I haven’t one.” “You don’t think of committing suicide?” “Far from it” “What do you want it for?" “Must I tell, sir?” “You must.” “Well, then, don’t you think that a woman forty years old, who has had her first offer of marriage less than a year ago, naturally wants something to quiet her nerves and give her a good night’s sleep?" The chemist thought so, and she got her nerve-soother.