Show HUXLEY LIKED HIS TOBACCO st s testimony rather D scon cert ng to hearers prof huxley was invited on one oc to take the chair at an anti tobacco meeting in a brief opening speech he related a personal incident he was visiting a friend with whom he had animated discussions on a re bent scientific discovery in which they were both deeply interested how ever there was one point on which we differed continued the professor my friend was a great smoker while I 1 detested tobacco in any form great applause after dinner we usually retired to his studa but finding my self once nearly suffocated with my ft lends cigar smoke I 1 expostulated thereupon pushing the cigars before me he said take one yourself it s the best remedy As I 1 knew I 1 coulden couldn t induce him to give up his I 1 reluctantly took a cigar and smoked it and since that time ladies and gentlemen nothing on earth could in duce me renewed applause to forego my afternoon cigar |