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Show TAUGHT BOYS TO SMOKE. Schoolmasters Gave Instructions If Use of Tobacco 100 Yeare Ago. At first sight tho recent agltatiti for loglslntlon to prevent tho sale of tobacco to boys seems to show a stato of affairs provlously unknown. That such Is not tho caso. however, Is shown by a story of tho closing years of tho seventeenth century as related by Do Rochefort, tho French traveler. During his visit to Worcester, England, Eng-land, ho records, ho wns asked by his guitfp Iffclt wns.thciitow),ln Jfraie as In Englnnil, that when chljdron wont to school theyvchrrlod In their sutchel with their boUkB their pipes and tobacco, tobac-co, and that, at a stated hour, tho master smoked with them, "teachlrg thorn how to hold their pipes and draw in the tobacco." Thero is nmplo corroboration thnt this Is no moro idle tale. What may bo called tho golden ago of smoking was reached In tho reign of Queen Anno. For over a contury tho uso of tobacco had gradually but steadily Increased in popularity amongst tho peoplo of England. From tho ond of Queen Anne's reign until tho last thirty years or so tho practice prac-tice of snuffing the herb usurped tho placo of tho plpo among tho cultured, though smoking nevor lost its hold upon tho working clnssos. |