The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-22
ALL SMOKE


from smoking; but those who do not smoke are
considered. by those who do as very poor
creatures indeed.
sometimes, on contemplating the hourly IN
dulgence in this universal habit, this cosmopoll-
tan luxury, ask myself how the world-that is
10 say, the Old world-got on before A. d. lSeO'
mr. thereabouts. We we're all poor creatures
then. our mouths were undecorated with cigars,
our nockets uugarnished with luciters, vestas,
and neat little volumes of cigarette paper. No
Young ladies. then, embroidered tobacco
noncbes or sold them at fancy fairs for fancy
nrices The tinder-boX and its substitutes were
confined to the kitchen, or to the baggage oil
cartons enterprising travellers who might nave
TO roast their dinner over dry sticks, after shoot
;no N and preparing it themselves IN the forest
IRE meerschaum, the yard Of clay, and the
by1seoueule or short, black, muzzle burner,
,Sore soually unknown and uninvented. There
is no smoke without fire, and there is no tobacco.
smoke without tobacco; and yet the world did
GOD On somehoW before A. ID. l660
"All Smoke" is so slight an cxaggeration, that
n MIGHT be allowed TO pass uncaviled at. All
men smoke-as all ducks and geese swim-With
exceptions whiCn saey tho So ro moi conn[ Ger
S-Tapied too that the habit Of smoking varies
in intensity at different spots OF the civilized
globe. In France, smoking wears the teeth out
OF the workman's mouth at an early age. He
cannot work without his pipe; while his hands
are busy, his lips must puff. He cannot walk
TO his meals without 1t; he cannot digest them
afterwards without il. On holiday, espe-
ciallv he cannot tBke his pleasure without it;
he cannot go to sleep without it. Paley said
that teeth were made, not to ache, but to eat
with. French artisans or laborer's teeth
were given to him to hold pipe. That is the
final cause of French dentition ever since the
creation of the human race. For the last five
thousand years it has been perfecting itself for
that main purpose. Iron would not stand the
wear and tear that many of these teeth have
stood. But considering that teeth are SO valua-
BILE for other purposes besides pipe-holding,
wonder that that ingenious nation has not
invented some patent indestruchbe mouth pipe
holder.
Then again, in Germany, do they smoke, or
don't they? 1t cannot be denied tnat they do,
little. Not to insist on what the vulgar do,
1 will merely instance in this respect the ways
of German professor, sketched by an able
contemporary. Your German professor never
gets on IN the world, and he smokes all the
allowed that no human being, not even q Turk,
nor an English ensign, nor French peasant
of the Department du Nord, can smoke any
thing like German professor. really
practsed and hardened German professor
will not only smoke during every other
moment of his waking hours, but he will smoke
all through his dinner, taxing alternately a
mOuthiul OF food and mouthful OF smoke. His
spending years in proving that being and not
being are the same, or that they are not the
same, and if not, why not, and how otherwise,
question; but some people might reasonably
opne that 1t is only natural consequence of
the smoke
In Northern Italy at least, smoking on the
wing has become so general practice, that
almost as much attention seems paid to your
WhlH by the way as to your reaching YOUR final
destination. AT the Turin station, you step out
on the platform, to take your place in a depart
"Fumare Fumare !" shouts the guard, point
ing to second-class carriage.
Inn I'm oro.
is making his first appearance on this stage
~ doat want to go to Fumare, but to Genoa.
don't even remember to have seen Fumare
either on the timetable or ON the map. Non
Fpmare, non Fumare, Sc vi place. If you
please.n
mon Fumare Non Fumare !" again shouts
the guard, pointing to contiguous carriage.
Quoth to my puzzled fellow traveller "The
train is going to Genoa sir; but 'fumare' ind-
Gates the carriages where you may smoke, mon
tumare,' where you may not.n
"Ah thank you. To be sure ~ he said. "My
Italian has grown rusty, for want OF use took
tnmare Tor station ~
Nor may we in justice neglect American ex-
plolts IN the smoking line. letter from Wis
consin mentioned the existence there of an in
d1Vldual named Joseph Gt should have been
Methuselah) Grille, who was supposed at that
date april, 1869 to be the oldest man on earth.
borhood OF Yvetot, in Normandy. His baptis.
NAL register assigned him, then, the re-
spectacle age of one hundred and thirty
cleave wood and to walk distances of several
mlles. His habits were regular; his consump o.
lion OF drink was moderate; but he could not
live without smoking from morning till night
~ topacco be q poison, we must either admit
that 1t Is very slow one, or else suppose tina
Aethuselah Grille had attained what is techni
cally called "a tolerance of its influence.
From the aged turn we to the Juveniles. Th
JOstfndt OF Educdtion, of Ohio (date unknownl
informs us that in one of theschools of that State
consisting OF ive-and-thirty boys and girls
there are nine little boys who qtlid and five
little girls who smoke tobacco. The JOllna
seems annoyed by that statistical fact owe
say nothing about the quiddingp y it walls aloud
almost fancy ourselves in the Sand wich Islands,
The Journal is wrong to express surprise. In
go-ahead nation like the United States
the young idea, taught or untaught, will
sometimes make extraordinary shoots. All that
remains is for American mistresses of deport
ment to teach young ladies graceful ways o
holomg cigarette and of making the smoke
beauty.
If the novelty with which America presented
hs, only three hundred years ago, had beer
atuacuVe TO any of the senses we might bt
less surprised at the hold it has taken of al
the Old World populations, But its mower Il
quite paradoxleai. Although the plant of itsel
1s OF portly mlen, prepared tobacco has nothint
which pleases or invites the eye: while to III,
taste, the smell, the stomach, IL Is at Tho o,,sa
absolutely offensive. Vino is there who d oe - g
remember the painful experiment OF iearnin,
Amongst others, Napoleon never could o
never would learn. In Egypt, he pretended
smOke-as he held out his possible cOnyersio
to Islamism-to please the Egyptians by adop
ing their customs. But he never could light h
pipe himself. 1t was his Mameluke Roustan
duty to set it going. If his master let it 90 OF
again, charcoal and matches were not ruinous
expensive.