Undermy own observation have come^s^ in- nvist horrible cases of morphlno-^mania. One, and perhaps the aaddest ol^^II, was that of an American married to a^French count. A lew years ago, because^of her beauty and intellect, she was the^pride ot her family and friends. Then her^eyes became lustreless, her complexion^pale, her beautiful golden hair a remem^Sranre of the past, and her figure distorted^and shapeless. Worse than all, her intel^^lect was darkened, and by III- who^knew her in other days she was called ^a^dangerous woman ^ So vivid was her Im^^agination, so unreliable u re her word^,
thatshe was shunned by those who r
gladlycalled her friend. The end came,^as it always comes to those sfHicted with^her malady, and when she lay in her coffin^friends and relatives said, ' It Is better that^she has gone.
Today tbe once beautiful Am^ tlcan girl^Ilea in a French cemetery and her friends^sigh, hut. with relief, as they speak of her^on whose tomb ml^ht be written, ^A Vic^^tim of Morphine.
Thedeath ot Jacques Iiamala, husband^of Sarah Bernhardt, Is a sad evidence ol^morphine's power, .Jacques Damala was^brave and good, but always misunderstoo I,^first, because ot his Oriental origin, after^wards because he became the hut-bat d of^Sarah Bernhardt As a young man he was^an officer In the guard of the king of^Greece, attache of the (ireek Legations in^Mat., had d' bts Innumerable and fought^duels without number. LUs marriage with^Sarah Hernhsidt and the separation from^the actress are too well known for recapitu^^lation. To down his troubles M. Damala^drank absinth and brandy and laBoki d^sometimes seventy cigarettes a day. Nat^nraily, he was very ill after this dlsslpa-^..ji^, but a regimen of milk aud water soon^ri stored bini to health.
