The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-08-11
" Snuff VS.. Love-"

We invite the attention of the Scotc
and Macaboy dippers, to the following
by the accomplished Editress of the TEN
perance Crusader, Mrs. Mary e. Bryan
Judge Nisbet, in his admirable lectur
Of last week gave tobacco users, and es
pecially feminine snuff dippers, a yer,
graceful, but pretty severe rap en- passant
The arguments against dipping have beel
reiterated until they are stale, but th'
Judge condensed the most prominen
ones in single epigrammatic sentence.
Young ladies'" said he-with tina
dry humor which is Irresistible wher
1t falls from lips so grave" Young la
dies, let me give you conclusive argu
ment against snut1-rubbing: No gentle
man can love lady who uses snuff, and
none of you can do without being loved
1t was followed by involuntary ap.
plause among the gentlemen, but We won.
dered how many fair cheeks in that large
assemblage of lovely ladies flashed gull.
ty at the sweeping assertion of the lectur.
er.
But it is, indeed, quite reasonable to
fancy that overs-who compare the lips
of their mistress to all the sweetest and
most charming things in nature, apostro-
phizing them as "twin cherries" "ripe
Strawberries" rosebuds, bathed in per
fumed dew" and "rosy bibles on which
love has sworn should be shocked and
disgusted at seeing those fragrant por-
tails" unclose to admit mop, covered
with the vile dust'of the weed uDclean.
Byron expressed decided aversion to
seeing woman eat ; the process was too
dise' chanting would not the fastidious
poet have swooned away" as Mrs. Par
tington says, had he beheld the i" lips
that make us long TO taste them" dipping
with snuffy salival Fancy Gulnare or
Haidee RECALLING themselves with Macca-
boy Shade of Grecian Helen! it is
more preposterous than the idea of the
.Medidan Venus in hooped petticoats.
We once saw shower bath thrown
upon the ardor of an enamored young
lover who, upon entering the drawing
room suddenly and unannounced, found his
Dulcinea practising at the piano, with
her snuff bottle ON the lamp niche before
her, and brush between her lips. As
he entered, she was singing, or rather
mumbing, with her mouth FULL
"Call me pet names, darling,
Call me thy flower"
Think Of applying the epithets ofrose-
bud or lily to such a " darling e. Tobac-
co blossom would have been the only ap-
"pet name" just then.
Once it was our privilege to be present
at the preparations for regular Wire
grass wedding, where veritable pumpkin
pies are eaten and the games of forfeit
and grind the bottle are the height of the
fashion.
While the cake was being iced and
dressed the bridegroom elect came over,
and the bride--consequently as became
her importance-carried him about to
see the preparations, with round, terra
pin looking snutf-box in her hand, and In
her mouth a huge twig of !" black gum"
nearly quarter of a yard in length,
which she industriously agitated as she
talked and smiled. Wonder if the sight
was very suggestive to him of matrimo-
al kisses and blisses of ambrosial breath
and nectarine clip dew r. We should
fancy not.
We have the testimony of polished
and elegant gentleman, that no man can
5ruly and delicately love lady who uses
snuff.
We all Of us wish to be loved--it is
natural and right that we shonld-and
very many are the sacrifices to ease and
which we make to render
ourselves loveable. We consult FASH
on anu wear balloons under our dresses
md little birds nests on our heads, do"
he Gothic or the Donic in dress, simply
or the sake of being called charming by
he hirsute portion of humanity can we
lot, then, for the same reason deny our
selves the injurious and disgusting habit
If snuff. using, and consign snuff boxes,
bottles and brushes to the oblivion that
las fallen over the aspiring combs, shoe
buckles and sky-sweeping bonnets of our
,randmothers.
Wouldn't Ride.
AS the polite omnibus agent of the