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little good. Such a bottle should be guarded with 

 care, for if it is broken, children might get hold 

 of the contents with most serious results. Tell the 

 druggist how to make a slumber bottle and let him 

 prepare it for you. It is best to dissolve the cyanide 

 first by pouring in the bottle enough water for 

 the purpose, then sprinkling the plaster of Paris 

 over the mixture until there is enough plaster to 

 harden into a firm shell of cement. The druggist 

 will not sell you cyanide unless you have a permit, 

 as it is a dangerous poison ; for that reason chloro- 

 form is still used by many to kill the insects. 



THE CHLOROFORM BOTTI.E 



First put a wad of absorbent cotton in the 

 empty bottle, then saturate the cotton with chloro- 

 form, and over this place a pad of blotting paper 

 as already described for the cyanide bottle. The 

 chloroform bottle, too, must be kept tightly corked 

 or the chloroform will evaporate. All such bottles 

 should be labelled with the skull and crossbones and 

 the word poison! 



DANGER 



Since the cyanide of potassium is sealed in the 

 bottle witii the plaster of Paris and further pro- 



