156 TOBACCO. 



latest fashions, and carry little canes. They 're 

 the ones who smoke those old stubs." 



There is a kind of tobacco — I cannot srive the 

 brand — whose fumes are exceedingly offensive 

 even to the smoker, — I mean to the refined smoker ; 

 nor is he a model of patience when it is inflicted on 

 him. Strange he cannot realize that to most of the 

 uninitiated, all tobacco is obnoxious ; that they in- 

 stinctively repel the whole genus. 



The pervasiveness of the weed has been more 

 than once spoken of. There is in fact no such 

 thing possible as absolutely cleansing a home afflic- 

 ted with chronic smoking. Even a few whiffs 

 leave their mark. What was my consternation 

 one day on opening a closet-door, to perceive the 

 unmistakable fumes ! Had one of my male mem- 

 bers turned traitor? I summoned them both. 

 They emphatically declared their innocence. On 

 close examination, the offender proved to be a 

 garment just brought from an establishment where 

 smoking was in vo^ue. 



WIVES OF TOBACCO-USERS. 



What shall we say as to those women whom these 

 inveterate smokers call wives? I have seen a man 

 whom I loved and respected, who showed by many 

 a sad token the effects of his cruel bondage. I 

 have heard his wife, who had borne the trial 

 patiently, though with suffering health, speak 

 with feeling of the clean and sweet atmosphere of 

 houses untainted with tobacco. 



