OCR Text |
Show Why No Smoke in Caesar? Sweet lavender is now on the mar ket and on the side-table, and th smell of it is clean, sweet, and de licious. But did you ever smoke it' This business of the tobacco trust worries the smoker who may have tc pay more for his pipeful. And ther comes the glad news that we ar growing tobacco and even cigar cov erings in England, in order to beat Sumatra at her own game. And al so comes a Madrid professor, inquir ing what the ancient Romans smoked Fine old pipes have been dug up it Spain from Roman settlements, but they have no trace of tobacco oi opium. Yet they are adorned witt bas reliefs picturing the lavendei plant. And in 1276 before tobaccc came to Europe a Spanish writei said that "whoever smokes lavendei feels active, ardent, and vigorous.' But why is It that smoking ntvei crept into Roman literature? |