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others for a needless indulgence. There are so 

 many well-dressed men who are not gentlemen, 

 but only hogs in disguise, that every transporta- 

 tion company has to say to them, ' must not,' by 

 frequent signs against smoking. They would 

 never know how to be courteous without these 

 perpetual suggestions." 



Now, please take note that it is a gentleman 

 who makes these grievous charges. Had I ven- 

 tured on such expressions, I should, doubtless, be 

 arraigned as guilty of "great exaggeration and in- 

 vective." 



An eminent physician asks, " What should we 

 think of a person who spit in the water Ave were 

 about to drink? And what is the difference be- 

 tween such a person and one who spits a quantity 

 of tobacco-smoke into the air w r e are about to 

 breathe? " 



It is frankly admitted that among the trans- 

 gressors are some of our most refined and cultivated 

 men. But in what a predicament will they some- 

 times place a luckless woman ! She is a visitor 

 in some house, and her agreeable host, being accus- 

 tomed to- smoke in the parlor, brings thither his 

 cigar, when suddenly he turns to her with the 

 question, "Is smoking disagreeable to you?" 



Now, if it happens to be repulsive to both 

 her natural and moral sense, what is she to do? 

 What can she do but tell the truth? Does the 

 gentleman thereupon lay down his beloved cigar? 

 By no manner of means, but retreats to enjoy his 



