Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 10 | When Barrie Sang Praises of Tobacco

WflBllESfl PRAISESOFTOBACGO Noted Author for Many Years a Devotee of Milady Nicotine. .If you have ever read James M. Bar-rie's Bar-rie's "My Lady Nicotine," you Trill agree without being persuaded that tne author of ".Peter Pan" and other fantasies fan-tasies which have delighted the theatergoing theater-going public for the past quarter of a century was no tyro in the art of smoking. smok-ing. That he was as thoroughly conversant ' with all the pleasures that accompany I the use of tobacco as anyone that ever lived you know if you have read the book. He knew better than anyone, perhaps, the genuine joy that is to be derived from smoking " weeds'' of high quality, qual-ity, and his Arcadia Mixture is a name associated with the word "charm" in tho minds of fastidious and discriminating discriminat-ing smokers. True, Barrie forsook the use of tobacco to-bacco after many years. He reached that point in his life when he found himself between the horns of a dilemma. He was giveu the choice of quitting tobacco or losing the companionship or a beautiful woman. He underwent struggle, but the woman, wo-man, as usual, got the better of him. And though he decries in one place the use of the soothing woed,-in another he hedges and equivocates and expresses his longing for its effects. TVho can say how much of Barrio's genius ,is aseribable to the use of tobacco to-bacco Maybe none at all. But there is no harm in putting a supposititious case. All human nature is alike. In the matter of desires soldiers do not differ substantially from poets. The Sammies want smokes. But they are not in a very favorable position to have their wants fulfilled. We can help them. Let's not bo backward about it. Address your contributions direct to the Tobacco Fund, Tribune, Salt Lake City.