| Show SMOKING IN HOLLAND in mr letter to the boston courier lie ho states that he rode in the second class car from rotterdam to the hague with nine hollanders who as soon as the train started whip I 1 red out a cigar or a pipe and nd began 0 5 smoke molie as men ought to seek ri righteousness bt after an hours ride he says it seemed to me that the smoke had become a solid and palpable substance which might have been cut and taken out in blocks and slices he Ile speaks as follows of this national pec peculiarity u and here let me say that until you come to holland you never can 1 know nov how much humanity can accomplish com in the way of smoking it is hardly too much to say that every man every youth and nearly every boy smokes all the time he is awake at least the acts of living and of smoking seem synonymous As soon as a dutchman bes ios to live he begins to smoke and as soon as lie he ceases to smoke be ceases to live the smoking of tobacco and the drinking ing of gin may perhaps be regarded as sanitary precautions precaution against a wet climate and a sodden soil if sol so the dutch are to be commended for the good care they take of their health |
