THE ETIQUETTE OF TOBACCO 



IT is not four hundred years since 

 Christendom learned to use the gentle 

 weed, and yet in that period the use of 

 tobacco has passed from land to land, and 

 been adopted by every race, civilized, semi- 

 civilized, and savage. It has influenced the 

 etiquette of every country, and been influ- 

 enced by the etiquette in return. 



When Columbus discovered America, 

 the Indians had developed an etiquette re- 

 specting the leaf of the most complex 

 sort. Of their system but little has been 

 preserved, and yet that little is of deep 

 interest. To the Indian, the primary use 

 of tobacco was religious. He burnt it 



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