THIRST DEVICE IN AMERICA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14143, 15 June 1920, Page 2

THIRST DEVICE IN AMERICA.

“DRINK, PRETTY CREATURE, DRINK” Cable messages published in thcs£ columns last month announced that as a means of circumventing the prohibition law in America, people had taken to drinking wood alcohol, a deadly poison, and 'that many deaths had occurred from that practice. A resourceful reader of the Xe\y York Tribune offers the following suggestion:— “To the Editor of the Tribune. “Sir, —Read this notice carefully. It may save your life to-day. To avoid being poisoned by wood alcohol carry a guinea-pig in your pocket. Before touching a drink allow the animal to lap up a. few drops of the precious fluid. Watch the rodent carefully for about 1o minutes. If a pleased expression or smile comes over its face, you may fake the drink without fear. If the animal dies do not take the ,drink. Leave it alone! “Each guinea pig should only be used in testing three drinks. After that,it is almost impossible to tell if the animalis dead or dead drunk. “In testing cocktails the cherry should first be removed; otherwise the beast will eat the cherry and will not consume any of the •beverage. “There is for sale at a smart shop on the avenue a ease so constructed as to have ample room for four rodents. It is made to fit in the pocket of evening clothes, or can be carried by ladies, like in a vanity case.”