, 1841-07-31

from your mouths-and not only infusses .
deadly poison into your blood, but leads you
on to an inclination for occasional dissiPa-
tion-fIom that to semioccasional inioxlca-
tion-and thence TO actual camnation.-
Mans mouth, my friends, was never made
for a tobacco boz; and | wonder how any
one can swallow. I'd like to see q man stun
some Of the trash into his abdominal pantry.
If he didn't feel uncomfortable about the
Wristbands soon after, it would be because
sickness was afraid to come near him. Do,
dear friends for the sake Of self respect, dis
card the noxious quid, and not go squirting
your dye-stuf along the paths Of decency
and good breeding, as though none but such
vermin as you were accustomed to walk
therein.
Pay some regard to the feminine gender.
The ladies' are not TO be spit upon with I'M
punity; neither should the fragrance which
surrounds the flowers, of their love, be con-
taminated with ~efluvia Of cavendish and
plug. You may have your boots well polish
ed-your pantaloons and your coats cut &c
cording to the latest fashion-and you may
shine forth in all the splendor Of attlre-Sut
how can you have the audacity-the brav en-
impudence-to look in the face OF mino
neatness, and proclaim yourselves gen tie
men, while tobacco juice has unclarified es-
sence Of flth-is oozing down from the cor
ners Of your mouths into your whiskers-
And augh! how can you ever have the cru
city to apply your scurfcolored lips to those
Of virgin purity, or bcdaub the cheek OF
beauty with your nasty kisses! Just fancy,
for a moment how agreeable 1t would be 10
YOU If your wives or sweethearts were 10
meet YOUR embraces with guilds Of tobacco
in their mouths as large IS bull frogs, with
breaths thick and stout enough to hang a pair
of saddle bags across! Yes, my friends,
how would YOU like thatf Not exceeding.
" well ] trow. Think over this matter
when you return 10 your respective homes,
If you have any. and resolve that henceforth
your teeth shall not NEEDLE with that which
levels a man with the brute. and renders
him unworthy Of the station which he occu-
pies in the scale Of being.
Shutting, my friends, is nearly II not quite
as bad as chewing; and ] grive to observe
that females, as well as males, are addicted
to it. When l see a woman who speaksas
though her Nasal organ was made OF bell
metal-who says 'pud'n" for pudding
whose skin is as yellow as the latter end OF
autumn know she takes snuff in sufficient
quantities to make an Egyptian mummy sneezs
in its sarcophagus; and | also know that her
brains are equally as dirty as the handkerchief
she uses-and that's enough to throw apair
of tongs into commissions. Many pretend
that they take snuff to clear their heads
1t clears their heads in time, Of all Sparkling,
brilliant and original ideas, and leaves in
stead, confused chaos Of unfinished thoughts,
wrecks of fancy, and any number untamed
chimeras. This is the only way which
it clears their heads, my friends. The less
q, dust you admit into your noses the clearer
, your heads will be-ihe better health-and
The more transparent your morals.
Nv dear Renaissance we are to be cur
sed with tobacco ! will allow you to smoke
r very occasionally; for by it good moral les
sons are taught, and from it much consola-
ton NAV be derived. When the waters Of
the mind become troubled in sorrows sweep
, ing tempest, let a man sit down and smoke
a good cigar or a clean pipe, and a lovely
:. calmness will spread itself over the soul,
, like the golden hues OF evening over a sleep
ing lake. Such is the comfort OF the weed;
but while it is crumbling TO ashes before you,
what does it sayi Ii says that soon your
, bodies will in like manner crumbie into dust,
= and in process Of time be swept by the winds
, to the four ends of the earth; that the FIRE OF
existence, which now CLOVIS so brightly, will
: ere long be reduced to a single spark; and
that spark be extinguished in the ashes OF
> mortality. The last wreath Of smoke that
curls upward and vanishes in air acts as a
pioneer to the spirit in its flight TO heaven
, points out the way to immortal glory-and
: tells man he must be Invested Of all such so
, lids as sin, wearing apparel, and flesh, before
!. he can rise to the realms Of everlasting bliss.
I So mote il be-, Dow, JR.
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