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How English Ladies Take Their Liquor

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 7, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 30.

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How English Ladies Take Their Liquor.

One day, as he was musing on these things in sore perplexity, he entered his wife's dressing room and saw a box of pastilles on the table. The lid was marked "Lavender drops." Mechanically Jenny's husband opened the box and put one of the pastilles in his mouth. They were large white things like dragees, but instantly John Armeroy had crunched one, his mouth was filled with undiluted alcohol of fearful strength. So again he had his wife's secret. She got drunk off these pastilles, especially prepared by a roguish chemist for persons like herself and innocently styled "Lavender drops."—London Truth.