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CHAPTER XVIII.
IN WHICH THE SPIRITS VISIT A MODERN PHARMACY, AND
PAULUS ANDROCYDES DISCOVERS THAT THE LABEL ON
A BOTTLE IS NO SURE INDICATION OF THE CONTENTS.
HE brilliantly lighted shop, in front of which the
spirits paused, stood on a prominent street
corner, and was half surrounded by immense
plate-glass windows, adorned with curious
shaped flagons containing green, yellow, purple, and red
fluids of mysterious composition. In these windows were
also show-cases filled with perfumery, toilet powder, hair
brushes, combs, soap, tobacco, and cigars; while hung
around, for additional decorative purposes, were many
cheap colored, flashy advertisements, conceived in the
style of the modern French classical school, that served
to attract the attention of the honest citizen. One of
these pictures represented Venus before a modern dress-
ing bureau, combing her long, wavy tresses, on which
was printed " Use Madame Tonsorial's Hair Restorer."
Another chromo exhibited a portrait of Ajax defying the
bilious lightning by covering his liver with a non-con-
ducting magnetic pad. There were other similar signs
too numerous to mention.
" This is our modern drug-store," said Paulus Andro-
cydes, proudly. " Methinks you had nothing like it in
ancient Egypt."
" You are right," answered Athothis, with a humorous
twinkle in his spiritual orbs. " Our physicians com-
