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Show DR. WILEY AND THE SMOKING HABIT. Probably It is just as well that Dr. Wiley has placed a time limit of fifteen fif-teen vears on his prediction that smoking and tobacco chewing in public pub-lic is to become obsolete. A great many tilings may happen in fifteen years. Tho doctor's campaign, by that time, may have to be directed wholly against tho women. The ladles la-dles may be doing all the smoking and chewing and drinking in fifteen years, and Dr. Wiley may be Instructing Instruct-ing husbands how to keep tho flies off babj's head in the summer time. - U)ne nevpr can tell. A railroad may haye' been built to The moon in fifteen ,l'cars 'Other wonderful -things have 'been Invented in the pasL Who would have thought a few years ago that It would have been possible to send messages by wireless? Who would have thought that -men would havo been flying through tho air in cute little, ships? We stand with Dr. Wiley in his prediction. pre-diction. Aye, we go even further. Anything may happen ip fifteen years. Some gaunt genius may even find a cure for baldness A cure may even be found for sapheadedness. Who ffliiiffi'wi"mHi'iw in- ii cares what may happen in fifteen years, anvhow' All tho young ladles who are now 20 will bo 30 or thereabouts there-abouts in fifteen jears. What a comfort it will bo fifteen ycar6 from now to Lake one's cigar pipe or chewing tobacco into some nico public place and while getting the solace the weed affoids to reflect Joyfully that Dr. Wiley predicted it would happen and it didn't! What a thrill It will give one to sit In the theater and watch the stage through the smoke and recall the Inspiring, heroic words of Dr Wiley fifteen ears before' If there were any cigar worthy of the honor, we would mo that It be named the Doc Wiloj, and that a. consistent effort -be made to keep it up to Its original. Introductory quality for the next fifteen years. At the end of the allotted time tho whole nation might smoke a Doc Wiley in honor of his early prediction. Washington Post nn |