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Show LADY NICOTINE: HER FRIENDS IN THE "LITERARY WORLD , Cul'yl lull!. HMO. hy Tulillo I.eilUT Co. i-lu-w ins, khuK1ih; or Inhaling it in (lie form of powder." I l(H:i (lu Civi-U Ouin-li I'"' 'f tobacco in any slmpn or lo mm to i( a.lh.i .-lit.-.. To tive this rom-inmul rom-inmul lh,, foroo II divillrt injunction tradition niiimifm-iiiivd, ami it n.i .l.-miil- ii-.-ct,-li,-,l l,t it vwis ii)i the ( 'f tobacco that the devil intoxio.it,, I Nl,. ' liiissin I'ar Michael united will, , church in it, prosecution nn,l decreed that Ms notes, which MiKjt.'st n mnul of lialf-formrtl lialf-formrtl hlea.i, crowding In ft jumblu uguiuttt Hint closed door lying between the written and (he unwritten. Then hi' turns, slowly pick lip the. cljiiir Hint on (I,,. edge f hln desk mid leisurely pnfts it. II in, iy , for 0ny (rw hl.,.on,Ni hut tlm kI i u in, ,1 look vanishes. One. fiuu-ir-M on, sees tin- ideas forming thcuiHlvcs in neat array behind that closed d - S. y,i!,"i".'S '""h ' il was J11"'' ' livl:'"'l W1,r on V'- ,.,, y w,,l ' v. iu'll it W.l-i Ml'l "l'W - ,,1lu (or it '' during tin' '-r - r,'ica thai Sir W alter Kl,-.l. and ' o( O'"'1'" t l'-'-'1"'11'''' courtiers had t "'.' it "r ,1VU1 ',u' Nvll'U 01 A"K"'U'!1' - '' (rm$ to haimh it forever from lin '..''.si-d iniMi'V-fiil ' " . !, v.,(So.ne to the . hat. ful to the wm'. N .J(r! to t!'f brain, d.mseroiis to t'u luuiti l.ia.-k, tinkiiu fnn.-s thereof t;r,tt ruiMins ,"rr'l'!" S,4'" V ' TMi lul h doonbo tus arch eecmv. ' t mi' f.v 'Is ,rr,"1,s 11,1 intl ni' t i'f lie M'i-:lV,'d his vimis .I'.nv upon Sir ?.',, tn'r'iti t" m.mv Tfars of ifrs,vil- - (I,. fr.ii'.'S in '''" hsus'l'.g of Iho knight J iwk.'J up oh.irsp of tr,'j-,'n. In is' "in attei-.ipt to stHinp out tol-aooo br frj tati; on 'ls impi'tation from y -;'";s, raisin? the dut from tw pono, a " Nv" to s shillings and ten penoe. an ad ' ' nf ef -t1 lor ,vl"' lu':1,,v ''i iiiins ; . 0, lV:osr ti ruin. The new law. however. ; Bk-t avp'.v t Spanish toha.-eo. vhieh l-s h,v4".ie popular iu Kuland, and mhoL-t; mhoL-t; iVtic-'-f'- . i the Fn'ish bean to raise toKteeo "' (3 tir ffG land, vhioh eaused .lames tvi fjif , new- law to stop its ou'.t ivation at "'hereas. out of the dislike we hare r isjv." wore the words used in intro- - 10 t-'' f11-'11?- 'ieh oono'.uded with .. t jutfT.ent that to grow t'.e plant was "-'isusf and miseuip'oy the soil of this ' T fci-A! litfJota." i i THF dif ire right of Kis .Ismes was baf-.j baf-.j hr the power of that new deity. St. - i-' .:::. s'l ,:'e ,!''vi's he invrtitl f--lzi bis rei.cn l,1 ernsh t'.ie hated oppo- jfsicst whieh he wrote his famous aV::i:"h'a.-!e to ToUieeo." failed as pitted .' 'fp-ztt tb wiles of the Ir iian w eed to n 13 . c: retail the loyal devotlou of men. h spi'? f Jai'.ies's aversion to the rerr wbieb. by the way. was at first scrs-; to have sreat modir-inal va'tie. the tc!:.;b tvop'.e had an easy time of it eotn -i:rei to the subieets of other rulers, both JHstiia a-J raSa- f',r they were punished U to:;-"f J el0n eeoutei for the crim T'"1';' or ",,",,i,,s " iu u ""-t tw.i of iiaif. r-;:- . , ,11 nr-i-n ,f I"'"'1'''-. In If, lii the Creek v'hurel. fonned Idea.a, ,.,ow,inS In a junililu ..gailt t ttMi'l V 2K J 'V J 5 ' t,,il,:i,le the Use of tola,'o iu any hhape that elos Ir 1,1,,, lietweeu the wnUei. ti ' EjSIl f " ''' tins eon,- ,,,, ,he uuwrllteu. ,.. ' '. 1' !, ' f I 1 . s ia V N"""- '"'" -"i.-.l vaiii,,,,,. (, faneie, , U t "V 'it- ff. 'T ui-t 7i, it T- '" ""!';' " ' a the ideas forming ,elve9 i neat i ' IL tkUk&T T i hu,,h ,n tt.s pivseoution and deoreed that array behind that eloMal door. JJL ZHZZ 0 SlyjjJ -Ulixj n r- v Emeraon calla upon Carlyle and, each Xv A , taking a pipe, the two sit silent until mld- - r'sss' ' II night, save for an occasional request to '- Vs XWryiV 11 "pass the tob.icco." "The most pleasant ;!S- ?L-.jL)L S J evening ever spent" ""CI -TTk' V2 y I ,int ''nrri, '".''lie? a heroiue whose fascina- v'-12i"3 lZi' tj,, I10y w(.t riva t,(. ln5t ravis.iiing btau- fjJI J- ' tlrilli!IIlt "ouien who ever drew brMtii in the ral,n of fi.-tion. " " I K J IL 11 wns UI'I,-J tllilt ''"kespeare smoked, H-'i!( fc. for iu those early days ot tobaceo the prac- Uj (M11, f ti,e wan pursued iu bis own theatre, the A (ilobe. yet it is a strange fart thot it is never referred to in bi worLs. Smokers were the eo. nuiorig (hem 'Word; vorth. K'-nt;i, Colea riicn, liiirns, ("owper. In lh': )i't of the liiihiiioltTH liiiglii.hmen ure e. eon -.pi'-uoupi than I'reiiehinin, nmoiin whom are Dumas, iialzno, VirLor Hijko, Voltaire, Koiiss.eau nd .Mirala nu. fieollie and J J rri uri'Tj Ilsiufl lo haled tobaeeo. My I-udy Nieotior; hna been the bilbj'et of many a poem addiis'd U ber by her der-oteea, der-oteea, inebifling sueh a variety of men as (-'hnries r.amb, Oliver W'ciid'dl Holmes, Lord l;yron, James Kussell Lowell, T. ii. Aldrich and Itiehnrd Le Gullieniie. Wliile turning bnekward for a !ait glanea at thft siuokiijg authors of the. pfiftt, before obeying the possible order to right-about-1 faee and follow the prohibition leaders toward to-ward a smokeless future, let us Listen to th words of Lord fiyron, who iudits a stanza to "Sublime Tobacco" : Huhlimt; tobacco! tcllich, from eazt lo teat, Chrf.ri this tar' 8 labor on the Turkman a rent; Which on the lonif.m'8 ottoman divides 7t hourt, and rival opium and 4i brides; Maynificenl in Htamhoul, but Una grand, 'i'houyh not Irtta loved, in Wapping on the Strand ; llivinc in hooka, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd v;ith amber, melloxc, rich and ripe ; Like othrr charmers, icooing the caress More dazzlii'jly v. hen daring in full dress; Yet thtf true lovers more admire, by far ' Thy naked beautiesgive me a cigar! The Heart of the Doughboy MOST of our soldiers v,rnt to the other fc ici'i young boys. Thry came Lack men hardened by lire uud or jx-rion'-p. They will tell you that they Lave "figured out a new buuch of dope," or that they have "learned a rule or two about the little game of life." "What they mearj is that they have cone down to fundamentals and tackled very problem from rock -bottom up. It was with the understanding that tb doughboy is a uew ma u and a problem in himself that Colonel Arthur "Woods, assistant assist-ant to the secretary of war, laid out his plan of campaign for the War Department's gigantic effort to get jobs for returned service serv-ice men. ' 'This, " be told bis assistants, "is Dot merely an employment idea. It is a uew experiment iu psychology. Ye must understand tf;e fcoldu'r. the tailor, the marine, right down to the ground, learn their problem miuutHy and take infinite pains to restore them to civilian life with Emerson calls upon Carlyle and, each taking a pipe, the two sit silent until midnight, mid-night, save for an occasional request to "pass the tobacco." "The most pleasant evening ever cpent" tine Hnrrie makes a heroine whose fascination fascina-tion may well rival the most ravi.thing beau-ti'-.s and brilliant women who ever drew bra t h in (lie r'-;ilin of fiction. It wns nuppoM.d that Shakespeare smoked, for iu those early day of tobacco the practice prac-tice was pursued iu bis own theatre, the (Jlobe, yet it is a htrai:ge fart that it is never referred to in bis worU. Smokers were the other poets of his day Marlowe, Fletcher, i;...iiini"nt and even Hn Jousou, who at-iri.d, at-iri.d, but u'd it. H-i-'on d--:,red that t,ba'ro hath power to lighf-u the body and Miuke off uneasiness," and Sir Isuar New-tuii New-tuii wns known an "the hmoking philosopher.' philoso-pher.' Milton's two grent sources of solace in his blindness were his organ and his ronsoles. "Woman makes half the sorrows whirl, h.- b-niMM the privileRP to hoothe. ' "Woman, o.nsott-s u.i, U is Hue, wuile we are Joung uud handsome; when v-e are old nud ugly, wt'inuu snubs unl h-olils us. "Un the whole, then, woman in this s-ale, th- w-rd in that. Jupiter! bang out the balance, nnd weigh them both, and if thou 0: of tb? b;.t:?ret ecemics of "My . j:t X:;o::ze'' was Su'tan Ar.uirarh TV of r;:k?T. who person ic-d tobaci-o urs on t'.lz:.y-S s w as ten'.poral groun.1.?. i: it was ?aid. bad prophesied that -a f::ure sos sor.e of his fo'.'.ower would r:'i" a berb ca'.lfd tobacco, but thr? wou'.d : r'ievers. T.e Fultan prohib-.tod i:s . 8d th-?se who cisoSrye-i w ere pun-: pun-: : " 7 bsv; tobacco rPs driven t; fer?:?b their ch-?eV: ad ro'.ls of toba-xo - ii as co'.'.ars round thir cecks. Thus rrtjei thv were mounted on a$se-; facicg : "" ki tiil. drivD throuch the streets as a ft"::? to lusters af:er tSacoo and were . T hi haired. Ia Persia the Shah Abbas T-: o':ih::ed the use of tobacco, and on one " : bjrnt a trerchant alive in his ?'o'k T - the p'.ast. The Mogul F.xPTor Jhaa : ?r Ukewise punished by dath the ' - eoklrj or 5 of the American hrb. ; I: The Christian cuctri?! of Kurope there - n r!:'.2r persecution of smokers. Aft-r tn5::?rab'.e tro'b'.e wi:h men who indu'spd - ; i--. fo:b:dc?2 wrd in Eme. Switzerland. ' it Co-ruzal Fathers in lOl made an - " k-z commandment, which they had rri::ii cpon the Tab'.es of Law between the - hu and seventh commandment of Moses, - ' 'Thou sha'.t not us? tobacco." l rHE Laihij of scuM in church became so . cornoa that Pope Urban VIII issued a : " eicemmi:n:catin? with bll, book and arc!? a!l persons of both sres who took accursed weed in church, "whether by for thp first orTense f ruokers bhould be shipped and for the second executed. Those w c prefem-d sirhff to smoke escaped w ith the airpuiation of the nose. The ambassadors ambassa-dors of the li:ke of Ilolstcia to Kussia in 1 1 13 saw eii:b teen men nud one woman publicly kuoutcd for selling tobacco anC brandy. THI S iu tLe early das tobacco and bpirita were liuked as they are today by those who a u v in-a t e that the Indian w eel . St. N ico tine, b-i expatriated from America to jolu KiLg Alcohol iu banishment. Much baa b-:n written of late about the many reftr-eu.'cs reftr-eu.'cs to liquor in literature. "With tobacco the (jUt-stioQ is not only. What hac famuu authors written about smoking? but. What have tiiy writteo while smoking? While King Alcohol is generally admitted to befog ti e intellect and muddle the powers of clar thinking. My I.ady Nicotine invites the thought which ru!ts in poetry and philosophy, philoso-phy, if we are to believe what our leading poets and philosophers tell us. "Jo writing." said Alnhone Daudet, sneaking, of the working power there is iu tobacco. "I hare always found my capacity for work diminish as the tobacco in my pipe burns lwer and lower." Itobrt Louis S'pvenOQ dictated hh works between the puffs of a ciarere. He declared that if his doctor told him that smoking would kill him he should continue to smoke, since he would have to die some time, and he was certain "I take my pipe." Teuuysou wrote to a friend in -h "and the muse drvecud in tin f'line, not like xour modem ladie.s. who j-hriek at a pipe as if they mv a .pla"k-murk." .pla"k-murk." (II:s comparivin refers to one of (lulliver's giants.) Of all Knglish poets he was oue of the most devoted to the herb nnd smoked so incessantly that it became almost imposvj)o for hiin to do without it for rvn a few hours. On one oecnii-'j, at a soiree of the Royal Society, he declared that he must have a pipe. He was told that he could smoke up the chimney of the back library or on the roof. II chose the roof, climbed up the ladder which led to it and with his bodv thrust l.alf-wuy through (lie skylight puffed away in peace, dfcendinc in a quarter of on hour greatly refreshed. T-ut imagine passing the building where nueh an august society wa holding a soiree and seeing the unkempt had of the poet laureate appearing from the roof in a cloud of smoke I ''Tennyson smokes infinite tobacco," wa the terse comment of Carlyle, who himself believes that "tobacco was one of the divinest beuetits that has ever come to the human race." One of the most famous of all tobacco to-bacco incidents was the call which Emerson Emer-son made upon Carlyle at Craigenputtock in 133. Carlyle gave him a pipe and. taking one hinne.'f, the two sat silent until 'midnight, 'mid-night, save an occasional request to "pass the tobacco." When Emerson rose to go Carlyle pressed him to stay longer and not curtail the most pleasant evening he had - m$flt. imMmk iw y M 111 IMIMII II .11 I III I II IM 1 M .III ! Hill. I MM II I11IM MMMM I III "The fumes of tobacco with which the devil Intoxicated Noah" give the preference to womau, all I can E.:iy is the next time Judo ruffles thee, O Jupiter Jupi-ter trythe v-.-eed." Killing, in the guise of a smoke-rovios bachelor, weighs -woman iu the scale and finds her wanting. "You must choose between be-tween your cigar and me," said Maggie, and the bachelor of the - poem "Betrothed" answered : Open the old cigar-box; Let me consider awhile. pipe, and he smoked incessantly while composing com-posing his poem.. Dr. Samuel Johnson "smoked like a furnace, kept his suuft in his waistcoat pocket and, with characteristic slovenliness, his dress was always smeared with it." Smokers also were Pope, Swift. Addison, Steele. Sterne, Goldsmith, Bolingbroke, Garricl; and Fielding. Later come another group of famous authors, who sought inspiration from tobac- as little friction and as much celerity as possible. "These boys are coming home eagerly, but also a little fearfully. We must bridge the gap that they have crossed during 1917 and 191S. America's future lies in her youth. The soldier who fought in France, the sailor who plied the dark waters, and the men who drilled faithfully and patiently at home, must not be left in the lurch after what they have done for us." . r !J ''f''' ft' Imsg'ns Tennyson's head In a cloud Bv? of smoke thrust through the roof of - fa- the building where the Royal Society was holding a soiree that nothing could bring death i more pleas- - 5 " ' antly than tobacco. . FT 3L Smoking, according to M. Taine, the bril- ' A K JR liant French essayist, is useful between two -i- . Vy). ideas when one has the first, but has not 5. ;. f arrived at the second. To test the truth ;, 4r H' 5 ' of M. Taine's remark step into a newspaper 'I '. . JlJHlr?! E) V effice and watch the humble reporter, many :.V; NJfO m l stclj8 rf!rarvcd' P'-chanc. frnln tbe autbor Q j la ' of inspired genius, but working, nevertheless, 1 f? along similar Hues. How fast lie works in XVV a rush, ns always, to catch an edition ! Now he stops, his face perplexed as he scans his i W" tiot-s for the next idea. Utt his machine I & is a page of complete copy; by his side are "Ah, tobacco.'" sighed Carlyle on another occasion. "Nobody ever came near me whose talk was haif so good as silence with my pipe. I would fly out of the way of everybody every-body and would much rather smoke a pipe of wholesome tobacco than talk to anybody just now. I saw in the weed the one element ele-ment in which by European manners men could sit silent together without embarrassment, embarrass-ment, and no man was bound to speak one word more than he did actually and veritably veri-tably have to say. Xav, every man was admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor and even of personal ease to stop short at that point; at all events, to bold his peace and take to his pipe the instant he had spoken his meaning If he chanced to have any. The results of which salutary parliaments, might evidently be incalculable. ffrpAKE for example, the Tobacco Par-liament Par-liament of Friedrich "Wilhelm. Fie had not the least shadow of a constitutional parliament, nor even a privy council, as we understand it, his ministers being mere clerks to register and execute what he had otherwise resolved upon. But he had his Tabagie, or Smoking Congress, which made so much noise in the world and which iu a rough, natural way afforded him the uses of a parliament on most cheap terms and without the formidable inconveniences attached at-tached to that kind of institution. In short, be bad a parliament reduced to its simplest expression ; instead of parliamentary eloquence elo-quence he had Dutch clay pipes Hnd tobacco provided in abundance. And this was the essence of what little intellect and insight thero was in a parliament; all that can be got out of any parliament. Sedatives gently soothing, gently clarifying tobacco smoke, with obligation to a minimum of speech, surely give human intellect and insight the best chance they can have." Bulwer-Lytton was another English author who believed that thought is aided by smoke. "A pipe! It is a great comforter, com-forter, a pleasant soother." he exclaimed. "Blue devils fly before its honest breath! It ripens the brain, it opeus the heart and the man who smokes thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. "lie who doth uot smoke hath either known no great griefs or refuseth himself the softest consolation next to that which comes from heaven. 'What softer than a woinau?' whispers (he young reader, i "1'oune reader, womau teases as well as JJcro is n mild Manila, There is a wifely smile. Which is the tetter portion Bondage bought icith a ring Or a harem of dusky beauties. Fifty tied in a string? Counselors cunning and silent, Comforters true and tried. And never a- one of the fifty To sneer at a rival bride. Thought in the early morning. Solace in time of woes. Peace in the hush of twilight. Balm ere my eyelids close. Open the old cigar-box ; Let ne consider anew. Old friends, and icho is Maggie. That I should abandori you? Light me another Cuba; J hold to viy first -sworn cows: If Maggie ivill have no rival, Vll have no Maggie for spouse! The same question is put to the smoker in "My Lady Nicotine," but Barrio's young lover gives up his tobacco to please his britle. After dinner, however, when his wife "reads aloud her delightfully long home letters or plays soft music to him," the young husband drifts back in his dreams to those old days when he and a small band used to meet often to smoke the divine mixture mix-ture known ns Arcadia. The series of delightful de-lightful little essays and anecdotes form a book which is full of charm for smokers and nonsmoKers alike, and of My Lady Nico- . Ja , .v Dr. Samuel Johnson "smoked like a fur- lmglns Tcr.r.yson's head In a cloud of smoke thrust through the roof of the building where the Royal Society was holding a soiree that nothing could bring death i more pleas-autly pleas-autly than tobacco. Smoking, according to M. Taine, the brilliant bril-liant French essayist, is useful between two ideas when one has the first, but has not arrived at the second. To test the truth of M. Taine's remark step into a newspaper office and watch the humble reporter, many steps removed, perchance, from the author of inspired genius, but working, nevertheless, along similar Hues. How fast lie works in a rush, as always, to catch an edition ! Now Lc stops, his face perplexed as he scans his tll,,s for the next idea. (JiChis machine is a page of complete copy ; by his side are Dr. Samuel Johnson "smoked like a furnace" |
