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wholly opposite direction. When the trainer of 

 Barnum's clown-elephant, proposed to add to his 

 many wonderful performances that of smoking a 

 tobacco-pipe, Barnum replied that ff his army of 

 employees were men of exemplary character, and 

 his clown-elephant should not be permitted to 

 demoralize them by setting them a bad example." 



Is there, then, I repeat, absolutely no refuge, 

 no quarantine, by which these noxious, ever-poison- 

 ing, ever-persecuting spirits of the air can be 

 effectually shut out from the innocent? 



" Chewers," writes one, "ejaculate their saliva 

 upon the sidewalk, in the store, in spittoons which 

 become incorporate stenches, in dark corners 

 of railroad cars to stain the white skirts of unsus- 

 pecting women, in lecture-rooms and churches, 

 upon fences, and into stoves that hiss with anger 

 at the insult. And the quids after they are ejacu- 

 lated— !" 



Some smoke till their bedrooms and shops can 

 scarcely be breathed in, and until their breath is 

 as rank as the breath of a foul beast, and their 

 clothes have the odor of the sewer. 



And this loathsome without is only a fit exponent 

 of the equally loathsome with in . Says Dr. Alcott : 

 f ' If the interior of the tobacco-user could be 

 fairly exposed to the public gaze, I am not sure 

 but it would do more to deter the rising irenera- 

 tion from falling into this habit than all our lectures, 

 and essays, and homilies." 



Did no one suffer except the willing victim, the 



