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the expostulations of the lady occupants, who 

 finally were compelled to apply to the guard for 

 protection, when he was made to go into the 

 smoking carriage. As he reluctantly went, his 

 daughter turned angrily to the ladies, exclaiming, 

 f See what you have done to my poor papa ! You 

 make him leave his place to smoke away from 

 me.'" 



A writer describes a scene he witnessed at a 

 hotel in the vicinity of one of the most popular 

 New England colleges. Around a coarse, illiterate 

 man, enwreathed in clouds of smoke, gathered a 

 circle of young loafers, to whom he passed cigars. 

 As they joined him in smoking, they talked slang 

 and profanity. It was difficult for the beholder to 

 credit the fact, which incidentally became known 

 to him, that these same smoking, swearing loafers 

 were veritable college students. 



I believe it will not be denied that, as tobacco 

 comes, good manners are apt to go, yet if you ex- 

 press concern that a young friend is in this bondage, 

 one sometimes breaks out on you with the remark, 

 ff Be thankful he does n't drink. Let him smoke 

 as much as he will, and in your parlor, too, that 

 you may thus save him from the saloon." And it 

 is said without a suspicion that this habit often 

 leads to that very place. 



All honor to the brave young woman, who, in 

 uttering her protest against tobacco, declares that 

 " there is one girl firmly resolved never to marry 

 a man who uses tobacco, and to do what she can 



