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^'I have often seen in the streets, ladies and others 

 walk very slowly or stop upon the sidewalk to allow 

 the smoke to pass on out of smelling distance. I have 

 also seen people cross the street to avoid the stench of 

 tobacco, which to many persons is intolerable. Have 

 these people an undoubted right to the free, fresh air 

 as they walk the streets? Then what term are we to 

 apply to the act of poisoning— for tobacco smoke is a 

 poison— the air for them to breathe? How may we 

 justly stigmatize those who do it? 



^' ^But people can endure the tobacco smoke, they 

 can pass along the streets in spite of it. Then why 

 make a fuss about it?' Yes, so they co^dd pass the 

 sidewalks somehow, if piled up with boxes, bales, and 

 barrels, and intersected with ditches and holes; but 

 for all that, people have a right to unencumbered pas- 

 sage ways. Am I wrong ? ' ' 



A HEALTHY SMELL 



Some years ago we had occasion to request a gentle- 

 man to give attention to the condition of his backyard, 

 which was in great need of the services of a scavenger, 

 containing, in addition to a very foul barnyard and 

 a much-neglected priv>% the carcasses of two dead 

 horses buried a little beneath the surface. AVe ex- 

 pected that only a gentle hint would be necessary to 

 secure prompt attention to the matter, as the party was 

 almost a fanatic on the subject of diet. Imagine our 

 surprise when this radical advocate of vegetarianism 

 and many other good reforms retorted, "Some people's 

 noses turn up at every little smell. "WTiy! a barnyard 

 smell is the healthiest kind of a smell, and I have al- 

 ways been told it was good for consumption." 



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