The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-22

moving, bustliug throug All should
strive to be content with the portion
Providence has allotted them. But OIL
home near the rocks, the streams,
and woods
A home in the country wild andfreoi
Mid nature IN her "grandest widest moods"
1 Is the dearest, bost earthly homo for mel
And now I must hurry away to
"Fairy Mount" to sec the presiding
Fairy there, am not going to call
her by that long, ugly name, "a Friend
to Tobacco. Che,ger5," but by the more
sweet and suitable one Of "Fairy" Well,
here I 60, up to "Fairy Mount" What
a beautiful little cottage, on this rising
knoll; and how tastefully is the yard
laid out; and many choice shrubs are
already planted. Ali the bewitohing
Fairy no wonder she don't sympathize
with us more on the shrubbery quos-
ton; for the beautiful blessings are al
ready in her possession. We know it
would not take long to make the yards
beautiful, but notwithstanding friends,
cousins, and brothers, the best and most
obliging man on the farm is generally
the tobacco .cheloer himself If you can
only convince him that it is right and a
duty to attend to such matters, he will
20 ahead at the work enyrgetically, and
also splitting with equal vigorl I did not
argue that the farmers should renounce
their tobacco chewing for nothing else
but to hire help to plant shrubbery, but
for some better purpose; and my speaking
Of their expenses in this line was only to
silence that old fellow, whom in imagi
nation I heard say, "nonsensel' There
are various other ways that dimes might
be spent usefully, besides the planting
Of shrubbery.
But must hasten. I enter the home
at Fairy Mount" Everything is in
exquisite order, arranged so, no doubt
by Fairy's own hands. Oh, what a
dreory, disorderly world this would be
Iif there were not just such Fairies
everywherel It is dinner-time, and
that "healthiest, best-looking man in
the vicinity" comes in. Well now, per.
chance, dear reader, you will say that
Glove is blind" Not always; only in one
respect, methinks, at FAIRY Mount
1 tell you "Fairy's" husband IS fne.
looking fellow. Well, I'll just imagine
he looks like a sweet picture daguerreo.
typed upon my own heart, and so give
a similar description He is Of the me.
dium size; with 6ne, manly form; has
dark auburn hair, high, broad fore
head; large, expressive hazel eyes; a
slightly Roman nose; full, beautiful
mouth; but oh, horror what ominous
sign is this see, on the lips that should
be ruby? and what is that in one side
of the mouth, rolling around uneasily
distorting it out of its natural and
beautiful proportions? The mystery is
soon solved He is a tobacco che,oer.
Now Fairy, you acknowledge that il
i is a useless habit, and throws the sys.
tenn out of order This is as broad q
foundation as / want, in contendina
with you against tobacco chewing
! When the system is in a disordereC
state, it is not in a natural or perfectly
healthy one; consequently it is injurious
> to be or continue in such state. Nov
your husband, no doubt, is healthy
a man. This tobacco chewing don't seen
to affect injuriously the strong oonstitu
tion God has given him. Yet the stimu
liant is unnatural and tho effect it pro
y duces is unnatural and the natural con
sequence will be, that his system mus
suffer more or less in his lifetime, though
+ the arrangement is scarcely perceivabl,
Il now or if it is, no thought is enter
tanned Of charging it to the obnoxious
weed.
How do persons frst learn this hab
a it2 Has God given man a natural lik
s ing and taste for it, as for food? No
j, It has become a custom; and "Youul
Il America" thinks it makes him lool
n manly to chew tobaccol It almost in
o variably makes them very sick at frst
,, You will see mere boys chewing tobaco
f and putting cigars in the streets, o
G loungiug around stores or groceries, o
o perchanoe in grog,shops Is it not dis
gusting? Habits are formed thus il
O early life which the mature man re
grets, and often has enough ,0U Of hi
own to break off from them.
d I contend that tobaoco-chowing is al
It evil and is it kindness in you, Fairy
!" TO encourage your husband or any on
'' ia a habit that is both useless and in
r iurious2 If we injuro our bodies,
J.. consider it is a sin against ourselve
aud the Great God who has so "fearful
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