128 TOBACCO. 



blowing through the window, you quickly close it. 

 Too late, however ; for you awake in the morning 

 with a sore throat and an aching head, followed, 

 it may be, by a severe sickness. 



Has your accomplished host the smallest idea of 

 his own responsibility in the case? N'ot he; and 

 you open not your mouth to accuse him. Indeed, 

 if you once do this, can you ever shut it? For, 

 alas, wherever you go, still that everlasting per- 

 fume ! You encounter it on land and water, going 

 out and coming in, walking and riding, in omni- 

 buses, cabs, and cars. Even through the pretence 

 of its banishment from the latter, the all-pervading 

 breath of the inveterate smoker or chewer catches 

 you before and behind, on your right hand and on 

 your left, while from the smoking-cars comes 

 floating in that indescribable tobacco-laden air. 



You purchase a garment ; but when it reaches 

 home you perceive the same sickening smell, and, 

 before vou can wear it, are obliged to srive it a 

 thorough airing. 



You lend a book. It comes back telling the 

 same stale story. So that, too, must be venti- 

 lated. 



You call at the post-office. You have not es- 

 caped it. Besides, you may receive a foreign 

 epistle bearing an infectious breath, which even 

 the passage of the broad Atlantic has not been 

 able to sweeten. 



You enter a lawyer's office. Behold, it is there. 



You flee to the parsonage ; but sometimes even 



