SOMETHING FOR THE FAIR ONES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 212, 22 February 1872, Page 7

SOMETHING FOR THE FAIR ONES.

The " Melbourne Telegraph " of a recent date says :—": — " Another skeleton in the closet — another in the boudoir — another terror for husbands. For their wives are in possession of a new and insidious means of muddling their brains and obscuring their faculties of household and parlor work. Some time ago the secret got abroad that an enormous quantity of the new sedative called chloral was being manufactured in chemical laboratories, far too enormous for mere medical consumption. Baron Liebig published a letter in which he said the German chemists alone manufactured and sold as much as half a ton every week. It was thought that the brewprs cni^ht be using it instead of tobacco, but its true destination is discovered.^ last. It finds its way now into the lady's dressing-case. Th» ladies are using it instead of alcohol, over which it has many obvious advantages. It is comparatively less expensive, it is more easily indulged in without the chances of detection, and it is just as stupefying and nice. What more can a woman want 1 ? It kills the doldrums It's not part of her policy to remember that it kills her along with them. And so viva la chloral, and exeunt chloroform and alcohol. How the one poison came to be substituted for the other is a feminine mystery what we don't desire, to penetrate. Possibly it is one of the" effects of the system of stimulation which has crept into medical practice of late years, and about which we have heard so many complaints. If it is, let the doctor look to his prescriptions. That is all the warning we have to give in the matter."