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Show not aaio to look after themselves theJi iiemors, who have donned the red j breeches, the kepi or the helmet, inigbj I at least be supposed to have arrived at years of discretion. The society, hot, ever, entertains a different opinion Lik most enthusiasts, the anti-tobacconists have overshot the mark, yet, as a matter mat-ter of fact, there is no doubt the weed fa becoming daily more popular with juveniles, ju-veniles, who, although they can scarcely be described as babes and sucklings have barely entered into the stage of boyhood and girlhood. Children of tender ten-der years are frequently to be 6een investing in-vesting in cigarettes, and even in cigars, at the different shops where tobacco and' postage stamps are sold under the auspices aus-pices of the authorities, and it is bync means unusual-especially in the dis tricts inhabited mainly by the working classes to see youngsters of Tor 8 trying try-ing to keep a cigarette alighta seriej pf rapid puffs being varied with avast amount of expectoration. Paris Cor London Telegraph. Tho Abase of Tobacco. The Society Against the Abuse of baccctogive it its proper style v title is just now distinguishing itseO ty an unusual display of energy. It about to present a petition to the chamber cham-ber of deputies asking that a law shall be passed forbidding boys-and it tc be presumed girls aa well - years of age to smoke. It has also stmt i deputation to the minister of war 'begging 'beg-ging him not to permit soldiers to ta-dulge ta-dulge in the fragrant weed in their ow rooms. Not content with this the SShas also requested M. de Freycnet to instruct the commanders of regiment to see that tobacco rations be not distributed dis-tributed to non-smokers as well astt lovers of the pipe, the cigar or the cigar fetas is said to be the case in W STcorps-in order that temptatial nar be not thrown in the yof mrf So have not already taken kindly t6 S'have n assumed that MJ yomwwoola under the aee of 15 wen |