The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-08-19


Let us look q tc6scco che Wing sad sr,s,;nr.
i II Tor = civilized beings Is il not more IN.
gushing than any natural habits OF the hor -
We do not say the hog in sty, because that /,
, an artificial life Tor the animal, and he IL mo-
respsass6ls ios he sioes e psns-up s,ass,-
Tobacco y nasty and filthy. It's preparation Il
namelcssly dirty. II u rank poison. The ex.
tract OF itkiis ~ ceftsiDlt O. psu~sic ACID g
The hrst nsc of ID, In chewing and smokine. h
accompanied BY deadly sickness. The habit
depletes the system when The tendency ~ ohe.;.
~ 10 not paramount. II lowers ne ncryes IN.
tone, strength and style Of The r,,n of ~
country, and hence Of the women. Every man
who chews and spis contributes 70 reader his
daughters scraggy and homely. Itis bastard
~, ungallant attack on the sex In that sense -
II y ruinousto nice tasts. Tsss mouth smbtuted
with 10 nth cannot diecriminate between purity
and impuriiy. The langpaxe, o. the chewer
and splitter Is apt to be as coarse a. his stimu.
iant He becomes The inpersona,ion Of seliish
qualification. Provided 10 chews his Nth ana
spita, he cares nothing for the presence Of 70
men OF men. He never says, by your leave
No: the morals and the manners OF the Bor-
der Knfiian are naturally biz, 30 far Is che wing
and splitting arc concerned If In railroad
car, sitting on the same seat with q lady even
for . thousand mile journey, the tobacco che ~
er and splitter never rejects that what il beast
ly in him would be beastly in her; and hence
disgusting 10 the sex. No. He provides him
self with = congeries OF "plugs" Black, dis
NAL and atinking, they are ~ the apple Of bis
eye. lie cuts piece. lie puts il in bis mouth.
All the nastiness and stencil which this ericen-
dcrs are evident 70 the lady alongside Of him
and to the ladies and gentlemen around and
about. But what cares our plug-heroy Il he
nnf n fVao and pEnhf ...ss ~
liberty mean the ART Of violating good manners
and CARRYING al the canons ~ flow-brri eeo,..
ism 70 their extremes Well, then Il Spit
hawk let the juice as. Spit down, spi. NJ.
spit around! Keep up the parid foam in your
mouth. Now, out with Ii! Too coarse, too
selfish, too vile to observe tho shndder, the dis
gust OF the fair traveller or travellers, or the
gentlemen present-for the breed il not quite
extinct, though IL bids fair to be under the to-
baccO regne-oar democratic savage sni.x
away, until he has made a puddle around him
which would turn the stomach Of a hog. Ia |
stains and ruins the l.diess skirts !; but What Of
thats This is free country. This il the fruit
OF the first few hours travel. The shame il re-
peated every time the car is reentcred
Take next our hotels, with all their purple and |
gold. All, We could do with whitewashed walls |
and .sanded floors il they only accommodated
gentlemen. Dut thcy 10 not. The hues and |
forms mimicked from the Versailles Palace do !
hot make coHters and gallants in their man.
ners. Our tobacco-chewers might better par
AXE themselves to some appropriate ssy than /
igare amid the splendors OF fashionable hotels.
i il . trghiful satire to see the tesselatcd mar
'le halls Of our princeIy hotels begrin,ed as ifa
et Of Feiee islanders had been celebrating
herein some obscene right. O, enlightened /
lation' o, chisalroas gentlemenl And with
u this, il is tyrannlcd on the part OF the sa-
red function intrusted with the culture Of
outh to thrust ont from the claims and digni-
les of college life the lad who pretends tot
inter- upon an enlightened career, TO aspire to 4
beral education when at the outset he violates
he first principles of good breeding the loyal-
: due the laws Of health and beauty, the puri-
? and decorum essential to the neophyte -
We repeat our opinion that the recommended
on OF Horace Mann to the Association Of
eachers Of Ohio, in regard to the use Of to
aceo, was not strong enough. 1t should not
{ simply denounced, but the student who uses
should be expelled on the ground that the
factice is unit for "a scholar and gentle
an. We need not enlarge on the fact that
le boy who learns the use of tobacco takes, as
rule, his introductory lessen in drunkenness.
obaceo and strong drink are twins Let our
oseges punish for the use of both alike.