44 GOOD HEALTH 



a piece of chocolate ; but thousands of young men have 

 grown into untidy old men because they have used it. 



The places where they do their chewing are no cleaner 

 than the men themselves. Indeed, they match them 

 exactly. Ask your father to take you to such a place for 

 a moment sometime. Perhaps it will be a crowded room 

 in a city, or a country station, or a back-alley store. 

 Wherever it is, look at the floor. In such places you 

 will see great damp spots which tell the story at once. 

 Men who gather in such places generally use tobacco, 

 and everybody knows that men who chew have to empty 

 their mouths constantly. The tobacco makes them do it. 

 For this reason, wherever a tobacco chewer sits or stands, 

 there you see the signs of his occupation. The floor 

 shows it and the spittoon shows it, though the man him- 

 self is not often ashamed. Ladies who walk that way 

 have to hold up their skirts to keep them clean, but he 

 keeps on with his untidy work of spitting tobacco juice. 



There is one great difference between the man who 

 chews his plug and the cow that chews her cud. The 

 cow is neat and clean about it and the man is not. The 

 cow does not soil the floor or use a spittoon ; she has no 

 brown spots at the corners of her mouth and her breath 

 is sweet and clean. 



Spitting is so disgusting that even the word itself is 

 disagreeable and we hate to use it. Still there is no other 

 word that is quite so easy to understand. 



