Show A TALK talu ON TOBACCO 90 SOMETHING WORTH THE consideration or OF YOUNG MEN N AND older ONES IN proportion it Is really surprising to the traveler I 1 not only in the united states but abroad to see how extensive has become the use or rather the abuse of that narcotic plant tobacco it is not limited to any sphere of society from the irish who whiffs its noxious vapors through a short stemmed and thickly coated clay pipe to the nobleman who wafts a be befogging foggin I 1 stream of blue smoke as he sucks his havannah cigar tobacco is found to be the universal resort for consolation by the delicate and fast fastidious adious dude itis it is used asan as an appetizer bytho bythe dilapidated pys gys dyspeptic peptic it is taken to stog stop a craving in the stomach bythe by the disconsolate Itis it is regarded as a comfort bythe joy joyful ua asa a good vent for high spirits I 1 the e beg beggar r takes it to stay his hun hunger wert weri and the epicure smokes for digestion after a full meal in short the numerous and flimsy pretexts offered as the reason why I 1 use tobacco 11 among 0 tn which are toothache headache headache ati afi and ana sore throat simply show what a 4 hold this habit can aud aua does doe obtain oil on all an individual or a community aud how those thus subjugated will descend to to the meanest quibble in order to satisfy their theli own higher nature and the inquiries qui rieso of f their most solicitous friends concerning arili Or ili lil ng a loathsome practice the us use e of of tobacco is not confined to secular circles either its foatie foetid breath mildly lisps the hymns on sunday S from the christian pulpit its fumes rise in denunciation of what is vile as the methodist minister moans at the wickedness of this wicked world and amen resounds from a pew whose confines are arc tainted with the odor which in spite of cologne clings to the clothes of its occupant in a recent report of the lay ilay elec elecy s i toral conference of Methodi philadelphia one objection raised to providing for the entertainment of ministers minister was that he chewed and smoked tobacco and by spitting around upon the carpets had on previous occasions ruined them so that complaints were made looking to a correction of this evill evil 1 the rev doctor cooper stated that one lady told him she had purchased a new carpet and fitted up a room for the ministers to her and that when they left she found heru herL carpet so se injured by their filthy habit habitor of ot spitting 16 tobacco juice that she hadbo had ta purchase another to put down dinits place what can be expected of ordinary people when their theological guides are themselves such tearful fearful examples in this direction Is it any wonder that boys cling to their cigarettes and men to their meerschaums when the highest officials in church and state cabbe can be seen smoking anthe on the highway when pastors and prelates pr elates pull wry faces at the debauchery of the cent century let them consider in what forms it had hwd its beginning I 1 it is only by the mhd strictest sense oi of propriety and its careful observance by by the leading IC leading spirits of the times that communities can be trained to curtail their passions and appetites and be brought into that righteousness of life which should characterize a christian country everybody who uses tobacco realizes it is a habit which should be controlled troll ed the moment a man takes q a cizar cigar from its case he feels that an apology is necessary he knows he is about to poison the pure atmosphere of heaven and that whoever is in his company compan is compelled to breathe for the next 15 or 1 20 10 minutes many cubic feet of air heavily laden with narcotic otie otic poison polson olson and the smoke thus infused lutr lute into the atmosphere is not cot even in the condition of original purity if anything can be pure chic which t Is poisonous in which it left the cigar but it has hasl traveled through and around corthe con can carthe boded teeth and foetid air tubes and sometimes down into the diseased lungs and then up through the filthy nose of the smoker before it reaches us for consumption as a concomly con comiti tant of the life giving air weare ai to breathe and live on the thought is too horrible to think of jiff i i I 1 but some will ask what injury does smoking do to the principal party parry involved the smoker well its effet effect upon the brain and ind nerves is touched upon in a special letter by doctor dlo dio lewis to a young friend in this wise 1 I trust you wui never learn to use tobacco iou rou it t is doing more to destroy the brains and nerves of american boys hoys doy boy s han than ban any reily icher other agency that can be named within half a century no youns yount man addicted to the use of tobacco has graduated at the head of at his bis class in harvard college though five ou out t of six students have used it the chances you see were five in six that a smoker or chewer would not graduate at the head of his class if tobacco does no harm but during halt half a century centar not one victim of tobacco was abie abik able abie to come out ahead tho abo tho same physician thus shows its effects on muscle it if a man wishes to train for a boat race his trainer will not let iet hirn hirm use tobacco because it weakens the brain and naus raus muscles cles cies so 60 that helfant hec hei cant antwin win if a soung young man wishes to train for a I 1 long walk say a hundred miles in twenty four houts hours his trainer will not let him touch louch a a he knows that the tho young youn chap will not bo able to hold hoid out in such a ion lon walk nis los a powerful poison polson and find the ardil escape ef if f it be used in any fuli full I lean ican ean can hardly hardix iro Irp irmagine agine ady D I 1 other feciw C nui mui you h and 4 lurt feurt my moy fleeup A much maeh as to hear that iq yow you had bad besun to smoke cigarettes yil I 1 1 J JT this then ihen is the priva private 16 sentiment of 01 one of the leading odthe age now who amondo young men would like to think it possible that leat he would wo nid uld weaken his to unfit him fon for an or place or power or set sei bilies u n uny any 8 edythi by b this r ve advae oi of the writer to al ali all who use I 1 and of alop 14 conquer lagau lagaw ois AVA awa ava aya hea eha fia 1 0 fib af how hard th the I 1 it vill noly now than ij ten i c I 1 save youl S strength t re 0 for his bis abter r things Z cultivate 1 0 r 1 I 1 at on in nay a B e men i ina ma every eve eye sense of the IN d your bodies that they may be pur ancl h wealtny heal tny and lri lil daic time that providence which 11 ahtipes shapes our bur ends end ifill 11 ayou you with g glory 19 because d d d andY ith bapp happ gess fess baes ia baus be baatu atu amri 1 us eft aft |