Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28

The TOBACCO NUISANCE.

The following address to the Directors Of the
New York Central Railroad was written, We
presume, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, of Seneca
Falls.
Sins. As with tho New Year, you generally
make some changes, declare dividends, cut off
dead heads &C., for the benefit OF the dear wo.
men of this State, we beg of you to grant us one
great favor. Decency, to say nothing OF refine
ment, imperatively demands your attention to one
item of reform, namely, Il second car for tobacco
lchowers and %spitters. Whilst our s!res and sous
are fitting about the country continually, we take
but one or two journeys a year. These with us
are great events. Our trunks and carpet bags are
polished up, aud 4 new dress is generally bought
for the occasion. All excitement with the prepar-
rations and anticipatiOns, we enter the cars. " hat
is it that smells so? What are these men doing =?
Arc they sick at the stomach--are they afflicted
with the water.brash? Their lips arc brown-a
tdark Juice runs from TIE sides Of their mouths.
How queer they talk. They utter one sentence,
then tnrn to spit out another, as If every alternate
idea was a refuse one unworthy Of utterance. We
hasten on-pass through car after car. to find a
decent spot, and clean people, but in vain. So, in
despair, We take n seat anywhere, elevate our feet,
tuck up our skirts, would the use of BlOomers
we're general and there sit, like a bird on its
perch, in continual fear lest our clothes may touch
the muddy pools below. But who can sit curled
up all day2 We Inustcome down at last. Nature
will stand up and stretch herself. a tired muscle
is worse than u dirty skirt.
Yes, gentlemen, something must DO dono with
tobacco-chewers and spitters. 1t is enough to turn
the stomach of an ostrich to step into one OF those
slippery, disgusting puddles, compounded of
phiegm and tObacco,juice. To sit hour after hour,
and see these ponds swollen into riverside know
that your feet are but islands in these waters of
hlth-that your skirts are all dripping with the
vile juices of tobacco, decayed teeth, scrofula and
consumption 1t lis too much to be quietly endured.
Said | to a gentleman. the other day, hat grade
of men are these Spitters p" Tobacco" said
be. reduces all its subjects to a level. If q man
smokes and chews ne must spit. Those who
are tho slaves of their appetites are always
lovers of self and ease. Therefore all chewers
and smokers will spit anywhere and everywhere,
without the least regard to decency or the comfort
of any person hut themselves. When a man has
formed this habit lie must cease to he q gentle
man." On my last journey, n well.dressed man,
seemingly a gentleman, squirted a stream of to-
baccojuice on my dress, three times. He was
unconscious of what he did. lie sat looking out
of the window, admiring, perhaps. the Catskill
mountains, thinking of some great questions
OF the day-free trade, or the annexation
of the San iwioh lsltnis. | hated to bring
him down from such heights to my Tweed travel
ing dress, but the last squirt was too much. Sir"
said |, pointing to my dress, will you be kind
enough TO squirt your tobaccciuic IN another di-
rection p lie blushcd to the eyes, and did not
spit on me again for the rest of the journey. which
OF course | considered an act of great kindness
and for6earanco on his part. Men who smoke and
chew should always be old bachelors, live at hotels,
amuse themselves at club houses, never approach
a lady, or kiss a child. They ought to be a distinct
class by themselves, travel together, live together,
and breathe in each others faces. You need not try
young man, to purify your breath with cloves, Gin
namon, cardamon-seeds or sassalras. The tobacco
will master the spices. At the very next meeting
of the Directors of our Central road. l hope somC
one will bring this question up. If any one pro
poses a separate car for ladies, we protest, on TIL,
start. That would be furnishing us instead of thu
real sinners. Oh, sirs. we wish to retain all tn,
agreeable men Of taste and refinement with us
Let the smokers and chewers and spitters be ban
ished. That is the way it will be in the mex
sphere. The vile and filthy will there be together
and the good ina place by themselves. So let Il
make earth as near like heaven as possible.-E. c. S
IN Buffalo Democrat.