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cigars, and most assuredly a good cigar can't be bought at as low price 

 as the best loose tobacco. As to cigarettes, no matter of how good 

 quality, I am sure they are in this country very injurious to anyone who 

 smokes them. In hot countries it may be different. 



That smoking in any form is bad for youths goes without saying, and 

 as I have just read in the Liverpool Echo an article, portion of which, 

 if written specially for this page of my book, could not be more appro- 

 priate, I shall reproduce it. 



"There is no doubt that juvenile smoking is very largely on the increase. 

 The too early adoption of the use of tobacco is recognised by all 

 authorities as a most pernicious evil, stunting both frame and intellect, 

 and cramping the moral no less than the mental and physical develop- 

 ment. Yet, especially since the introduction and wide extension of cigar- 

 ette smoking, itself the most injurious, because most insidious form of 

 tobacco smoking, boys of immature years have taken to the habit with 

 an avidity unknown when the terrible ordeal of the first pipe had to be 

 passed before the practice could be reduced to a habit. The first 

 cigarette has no terrors for a fairly strong stomach, and consequently 

 it is fearlessly indulged in, and it carries no warning against the 

 consequences of future excess. What the result of this injuriously 

 early indulgence in the tobacco habit upon the physical growth and 

 intellectual development of the country may be, the next halt-century 

 will probably show; but if we may judge from its present tendency it is 

 not unlikely that the nervous dyspepsia which is so prominent a feature 

 of the present generation will be greatly intensified, unless a more 

 healthy and manly tone can be cultivated amongst the growing youth 

 of the nation." 



I would add to the above truthful exposition that a law should be 

 introduc<^d prohibiting the sale of tobacco in any form to youths, and 

 that anyone under the age of eighteen found smoking should be 

 prosecuted. 



I think it was Lord Macaulay who said that " inductive philosophy " 

 was to eat what agrees wuth you and not to eat what disagrees. 



Although best be the quality of our meat, in the cooking is harm 

 often done. Meat plainly roast, boiled, or broiled, with an occasional 

 well-made hash, is decidedly the most wholesome food. Dinners with 

 numerous made-dishes served up with all sorts of sauces and flavouring 

 till not a trace of the natural taste of the meat is left are the source 

 of gout, " liver " indigestion, and a hundred other ailments. Besides, 

 they enervate a man. Xor do I think the present system of large 

 fashionable dinner-parties is rational. A lot of entrees are handed 

 round, one in particular a man might like to have more of than the 

 small portion he has taken, but he does not get the chance. Then, 

 again, game, the most delicious food of all, is kept until the end of the 

 dinner, when men's appetites have been nearly satisfied. 



My idea of a good dinner is to have few courses, each of the best, and 

 cooked in plain fashion. Soup, fish, one meat, vegetables, one sweet 



