166 TOBACCO. 



his obnoxious habits, till tobacco and the wine-cup 

 were banished from the circle. 



DEMANDS OF MODERN TRAVEL. 



A keen observer writes : K Your genuine smoker 

 comes to feel that he has a right to all the air, in 

 doors and out of doors, and feels himself wronged 

 when a man or woman puts in a claim to breathe 

 it without the tobacco admixture." 



Let me give a recent experience bearing directly 

 on this point. After various inquiries as to the 

 different routes from St. Louis to Chicago, the 

 glowing representations as to " The Palace Reclin- 

 ing-Chair Cars,'' on the Chicago & Alton Road, 

 led my companion and myself to make choice of 

 that. So, on a bright morning, we entered the 

 car, anticipating a delightful journey. As we 

 stopped at the various stations, passengers came in 

 through the door in front. They were mostly of 

 the male sex, and now and then one of them had a 

 cigar in his mouth. I cannot assert positively that 

 these cigars were lighted, but I noticed that they 

 were laid aside with seeming reluctance, or held 

 tenderly in the hand ; and in one or two cases, that 

 they were still burning. The seats near the door, 

 and facing the chairs, were occupied by persons 

 whom it needed no diviner's rod to pronounce 

 smokers, while the same might be said of several 

 who sat in the chairs. 



The atmosphere soon became thoroughly im- 

 pregnated with tobacco-fumes. It did not take 



