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

If the eighteenth century INDUCED in the love
OF flowers, " did so unconscious of their per-
tume. It's nose was stopped mp. Now, whoever
loses the eimpressionability OF sense nj the same
time loses portion of native modesty Witness
the blind and deaf and dumb. The eighteenth
century, through its nasal dealness became
mad after game kept till 1t was high and tainted
after putefaction on q silver dish For the
same reason 1t courted coarse amours the gal
nlI n,snlp5y ny OF the lamp-post and the gutter. The
Du Barry reigned everywhere, from the highest
TO the, lowest, in aristocratic circles. Society
SO foul could OILY be cleansed by plunging it in
the wash-tub of revolution
And now that man has recovered hia nose
that he can inhale the perfume of beauty aud
: flowers, he extinguishes another sense. that is,
another perception of modesty. He lakes in
tobacco by the mouth, he breathes It in smoke.
He converts the sanctuary of taste into q
chimney. He lines and impregnates every
corner of his palate with sooty coal of nicotine
AND yet that Is the place where the immortal
soul gives audience, the edwelling-place of speech
speech, the glorious communication of man
with man, OF man with woman. And when he
whispers confidence of the heart il floats from
his lip injected by the pipe, like the hot puff of
fulsome yapor which reeks up from the window
OF an underground kitchen. What poetry can
words OF love retain when they present Them
serves In such bad company? A woman must
sadly want TO pardon the man when she poes so
far as to excuse the cigar.
1t is in vain that Nature (who appoints senti.
nels to guard us from ouIselves) protests against
this internal fumigatlon OF our persons In vain
does she chartably warn us OF the danger by
the very difficulty we have in acclimatizine our
selves TO tobacco smoke. The contagion OF ex.
ample draws us on; the demon of the pipe has
got possession of us. No doubt the novitiate is
long: We suffer sea-sickness ten times day;
we shudder with chilly aeue fits; but by dint of
undergoing the penance, we acquire the right
OF smelling ofensiyely. ,re p.
Tobacco has killed kissing, SAYS Michelet.
1t does more; it closes the drawing ROOM For
meriy people conversed after dinner Men and
women, assembled round the same lamp, went
through n Of mn inof Ia
men initiated the women into intellectual life;
the women taught the men the graceful arts of
pleasing. Both parties were gamers by the
bargain. 1t was free exchange i'm All its
splendor. 90 II -ffS .--.'~
But the male. portion of the French popula-
tion are anxious to compete with Yarmouth red
herring and Hamburg smoked beet. Whenever
they are asked to, dinner, as soon as they get
back TO the drawing room they cast melancholy
glances in all directions. What does 1t matter
to them that their hostess is handsome or witty
day any need to toss back the ball, and answer
one amusing speech by another After dinner
he is falnt and ianguid; mis- thoughts are absent;
his heart Is wandering after a Havana cigar.
But, as well-bred woman cannot convert her
draNingroom into pothouse every creature
who wears or might wear a moustache takes
his departure at the earliest occasion, and goes
into female society where he can smoke at ease
loiling back with his legs on the chimney-piece.
Every evening La JeunesSe Doree takes prac-
teal lessons In cynicism. Now and then an
ee9dnte moving in good society, in despair at
the cigars seyering humanity in two and con-
demning her to a life of conversational celibacy
endeavors TO retain the deserters by opening a
smokiEg-room in her mansion, and herself set
ting the example with a cigarette.
But tobacco has fuller flavor in an eouiyo-
cal than in respectable house. There at least,
it can be moistened with beer and brandy And
thus sinking West Indian plant, burning in
the human Pullet, banishes the wine-glass more
and more. Neither the perfumed produce of
Medoc nor the electric vintages OF Burgundy
retain their holy on the smokers palate. The
unhappy wretch plunges his lip in bitter de-
coctlon OF hops, or swallows glass OF krsch at
a gulp, which is one way as good as another of
firing pistol into ones mouth.
Smoking, Ike dram drinking, is the conse-
quence of having nothing to do, of disenchant-
ment of the heart and mind. A prisoner of
state alleged, Before entering my cell, l was
innocent of tobacco; but | learned to smoke
under bolts and bars, to beguile the weariness
OF solitude"
The increasing consumption Of tobacco is
rightiul. Children ten years OF age already
smoke. But it is time to think of remedy.
Tobacco is a poson--a slow one, il you will
but certainly poison; for it benumbs the brain,
| eStinguishes the memory, brings on giddiness,
and finally engenders those horrible diseases,
| cancer in the mouth and softening Of the spinal
| marrow. When it does not kill totally, it kills
| partially. 1t concert with its comrade alcohol
| it ravages the organism and dwarfs the species
sically, but morally. 1t strikes thought witt
atrophy, and paralyses action. With every
! Whit OF tobacco-snioke a man eXhales an energy
! or virtue. Germany smokes and dreams Spain
smokes ana sleeps: Turkey who has been
| smoking these last three hundred years, has nc
| longer strength to stand on her legs. Re.
| clining ON divan, she dreams all day long
| But Toussenel somewhere says, "a yer.
tical nation will always conquer a hori
! zpntal nation.n Take care OF yourselves
| o Gallic youth! Unless you throw your cigar
| away, France may possibly vanish in smokc
Such Is the conclusion of NJ. Pelletans invectiye
-, Another French author, NJ. Jolly, member Of
the Imperial Academy of Medicine, is indignant
| that smoking should be openly permitted in a
| Government school. "As if,n he says, ''learning
the pipeaDd.cigar exercise were necessary
| preparation for serious studies; as if such q
| noviiate were the best introduction TO career
| OF science, arms, and letters" Worse still; q
| physician, whose name he seppresses out ot
respect for the rest of his colleagues, had the
| singular idea OF proposing the use of tobacco
| smoke as salutaIy regulation for French
| LYceums!
| Tobacco did not find its way into the different
| countries Of Europe either through the same
| channel, or exactly at the same date. It's EN-
| ployment as an eXcltant and stupe6er is pro
badly as old as the aboriginal populations of the
| New World itself. But its first introduction tC
\ the Old World cannot have occurred earlier thar
| the sixteenth century. We owe it to SoanisL
missionary named Fray Romano Pane, who hac
| been taken TO America by Christopher Colum
| bus, TO convert the natives to Christianity. The
| worthy frlar having remarked. in the priests o
| the goa hiwassa, the fanatic excitement pro
| duced Oy the vapor of tobacco leaves In fer
| mentation or combustion, took il into his heaC
| to sen0 seeds OF the plant to Charles V, in al
| pIoDaplllty little suspecting that he was trans
| mlttng to his sovereign the Germs of revou
uon desuned one day to overrun the world.
Such al least appears to be the origin of the
| culture OF tobacco by Europeans. Soain had i
first. This occurred in 1918, an epoch enuaIl,
fruitful IN superstitous trivolites and historical