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of " the manners of the Latin and Ango-Saxon 

 races, considered as a fine art," attributes much of 

 the decline of good manners to the increasing use 

 of tobacco. He says : — 



ff I refer to the anti-aesthetic influence. The 

 supreme test of the virtue of the knight in the days 

 of chivalry, which was the highest ideal of fine 

 manners, was his self-denial and desire to succor 

 the oppressed. The severest test of the modern 

 gentleman is his willingness to forego his pipe for 

 the comfort and health of another. It takes a 

 thoroughly well-bred man to withstand this form 

 of self-indulgence, when it can only be practised 

 to the annoyance of another. Whatever the bene- 

 fit or harm the use of tobacco may do the con- 

 sumer's body, its common tendency is to render 

 the mind indifferent to the well-being of his 

 neighbors. Smokers crowd into rooms or seats 

 reserved for those who would escape their presence, 

 and claim the right to fumigate, sicken, and half 

 strangle those, be they delicate women and chil- 

 dren, whose physicial organizations are more 

 sensitive than their own, and sometimes add insult 

 to the contemptuous indifference with which they 

 inflict positive distress on their victims." 



Mr. Jarves concludes with an illustration show- 

 ing the tendency of this tobacco habit to develop 

 boorish manners : — 



" I have known a German of rank, with his 

 daughter, get into a ladies' compartment in a rail- 

 way carriage, and insist on using his pipe, despite 



