THERE IS DEATH IN THE PRACTICE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 308, 17 October 1888, Page 3

THERE IS DEATH IN THE PRACTICE.

Every now and then occurs a death that)-* shocks the gay world and in its revelations^: asbounds the sombre one. It may bethatfof -* Lhe rich married belle gone over to /sip :bHe^ sweets of a London season. Her wit and her,^ beauty dazzle the diners at a great house " and they sit at the table until late. ,Tlies next morning 1 the spiritade American - is** found dead in her dinner dres.-t and one' l^, little white hand grasps a vial that has held 'y "only a harmless sleeping potion." "s< J r The bell was never rung, and the morning*.* sun shone in upon the face of a dead girl,v* whose fingers had not relaxed their hold on*t the insidious chloral bottle. ' ' The average woman no longer consents to endure suffering. From the twinge of, toothache to the agonies of childbirth her;cry is : "Give me something to ease my - pain !" Doctors know, and recognize with/* alarm, that to preach patience, endurance "t" t and courage is in vain. He who is most / liberal in the dispensation of soothing ' draughts and sleeping potions is on the ' shortest road to popularity. As to the • women who become their o*n dispensers,. - they are playing with life and death. Those who escape the latter succeed, as a rule, in making the former hideous to their friends, and destructive to their own bodies, brains' ? and beauty.— "N.Y. Press."