The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-04-07
"A coMMuNIcAr1oN THAT Is UP 10 SNUFF

COMMUNICATION THAT rs UP TO SNUFF
Ed. Wzig:-Should you find room and
think the following remarks worth insert
ing in your columns, you are atliberty to do
SO from a friend to health.
This destructive practice Of snuff dipping
or snuff eating-whicheyerit may be term
ed-that is making such rapid strides
amongst our Southern ladies. should not
the press be employed in putting down an
evil that is almost paramount to that Of ine-
Ebriation. Look around and see the many
fne complexions that are made to look sal
low and old. in the bloom of youth by this
perniciOus and indecent practice eyes that
should sparkle, look heavy and dull and
many times inaamed BY the snuff flying In
TO them-their mouths worn down ct the
corners by carrying the scrubbeFs, and teeth
that, perchance, would look like ivory, all
stained with this filthy die. until they re-
semble the teeth of Fox Squirrel more
than lady's; lips that should be ruby are
Of dark brown color; many times the snuff
dried on them until cannot tell how any
Of your fastidious ladies dare approach their
mirrors. To see some half dozen Of those
fashionists assembled, each one has her
scrubber but perhaps one box or bottle,
SO ike the indians by their liquor. they
hand the bottle around and often dip until
their lungs are 30 saturated they are COM
PEELED TO rest. and thereby produce cOnsum-
| ton headache, and many diseases very COM
mon amongst our delicate females. Many
Of their doctors bills are caused BY this
Ievil-snuf dipping. Let every voice be
raised against it. let il not descendto anoth-
er generation; it is too disgusting and too
low for American ladies'; it might be toler.
ated By the Turks but let not orr intelli-
gent females stoop 90 far beneath their Dig
nifty. Should any Of the fair deyoteestO snuff
ever pass by q tobacco manufacture ] think
| If they call and see how this poison is pre-
pared for their use. they would soon throw
aside their scrubbers and use the proper
kind of brush on their teeth, they would
see the dirtiest flthiest negroes walking
through piles Of i putting i up il bottles
and packages for your use, while they scorn
the use oft themselves, because they have
pulled of SO many worms from four TO six
inches long from this nauscOus weed, and
seen SO many ofthem ground up h the ar
ticle, that It could not be forced on them,
Those worms may Be supposed to Be The
first tobacco cheWers, bat where the snu6
eating originated is hard to trace up. but
| the practice itselfbespeaks it. origin. Nov
ladies don't 81 into 4 pet Is this eOmmni-
cation, but reflect how many dimes yOuhave
thrown away Of your husbands hard earn.
Iings o. perchance your own, how much
time you have spent il this filthy practice.
what injury Il has done your constitution,
and aboveall how much your beauty haa
been impaired. and soon yOa win conclude
that SNUFF dipping Of snuff ealing win 40
among Hotlsntois, But lot among Mss Ari-
latocracy.
Iln0w 81 old lady meta hundred miles
llrom here, hat hai hot bed tooth II Der
head fcr twenty years. Jet ahe nsss Fsgu.
larry I boisle 81 snufs very two weeks
No1 i1,is IS .ealinr nnu lor he fashion.