Another "Jag Farm" Forced to Suspend

1919

Last Booze Patient Leaves Minneapolis Institution.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Lack of patients caused the abandonment of the Willmar "jag farm" and officials declared that from now on it will be devoted solely to treatment of insane patients.

The last inebriate patient — a woman — was discharged a few days ago, Charles J. Swendson of the State Board of Control said. The hospital was opened 10 years ago for treatment of persons afflicted with the liquor and drug habits.

After announcement of the State Supreme Court, upholding the constitutionality of the Minnesota prohibition enforcement act passed at the last legislative session, the police promised a vigorous enforcement.

"We will attempt to arrest all persons making liquor or using it in any way contrary to the State law," said Michael Johannes, chief of the police vice squad.

Ether — Latest Vice in France

1910

Paris. — Compared to the new vice which has broken out in France, that of taking ether, drinking absinthe and injecting morphine are virtues. This most modern vice has already assumed abnormal proportions, probably because the sale of ether is free.

Consumers of ether begin by breathing its vapor. Soon this pleasing effect wears off, then they drink it, The consumption of ether is not confined to any special class of society. It is asserted that 40 per cent of the poorer classes who go to the dispensary of the prefect of police are ether fiends.

Physicians say that a pint and three-quarters is as much as anyone can safely take in a day. However, druggists say that they have customers who use about four times that amount.


Drink Scourge in France

What the French call "alcoholisme" has grown to be a dreadful scourge, and a direful portent for the future of the people. In some parts of France the very medical men must be consulted early in the day if they are to be found sober. — Church Quarterly Review.


"Thank God" for Faults!

Thank God we do not live with saints! We live with people full of faults, and it is excellent, for the faults of others serve us either by imposing a salutary constraint or by the lesson that they give. — Paris Figaro.