178 TOBACCO. 



TOBACCO VS. WOMAN. 



Tobacco is the relentless foe of woman. It 

 withdraws man from her society, and makes him 

 glory in his isolation, thus greatly marring, if not 

 positively undermining, the relation between the 

 sexes. 



In the words of Cowper, — 



" Thy worst effect is banishing for hours 

 The sex whose presence civilizes ours. 

 They dare not wait the riotous abuse 

 Thy thirst-creating streams, at length, produce, 

 When wine has given indecent language birth, 

 And forced the flood-gates of licentious mirth." 



In an account of K The Founding of the Atlantic 

 Monthly" which appeared in the Golden Rule, it 

 is stated that it was for a long time the custom for 

 the editor and chief contributors to dine together 

 once a month. After giving a constellation of 

 illustrious names by which the festival was usually 

 honored, it is said : f ' \Vhittier came rarely. His 

 health was always delicate . . . and he was evi- 

 dently troubled by the clouds of smoke that 

 succeeded the dinner. Once, only, the women- 

 contributors were invited. The experiment was 

 not repeated." 



The tendency of this habit will be more and 

 more to separate woman from man, unless, in self- 

 defence, she, too, forms the habit, and learns to 

 revel in tobacco-smoke. 



Gentlemen, w T ould you hail the advent of such 

 a day ? 



