The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-02-02
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readable papers. This tiae il -, = Does y
Pay to Smoke ~ which he discusses. Ard
the ladies andall model housekesPess vili =.
ceps his srsuzsent = the sinfdss& md essses
logic, because be arrives q : very emphatic 9
negative. ii thess facy pafsaAsA -
more. he champions the ladies side n We
sres, case of Women u. Tobacco:
nsmot;ne lures snfi deta:ns men from the
so.;.,, &c lad;es. This herding Of men into
clubs, these dinners TO shich men Only 1se
sa.;.ed. the late sitting at the table sitter the
ladies have withdrawn. the gathering Of male
| onesss into some smoking room, apart fron
The ladies' Of the party II not the cigar chiefly
Responsible for these atrocities? Men are
nc, society; women are not society; society
Il til. mineling OF the two sexes in such
way that each restraints and inspires the 9TH
er. That community is already far gone INTO
degeneracy in which men prefer to band 20.
re,her nv themselves, in which msn do not
crave the society Of ladies, and value u e
The chief charm Of existenee. W nat tns
real attraction of these gorgeous estaDisn>
mentsY nsked, the other evening, o. an &C.
auaintance who was about 70 enter one OF the
rev club houses on Fifth avenue. His reply
.No women can enter them Once
within those sacred walls, we are safe from
everything that wears a petticoatp Are We
get,ips to be Turks? The Turks shut women
IN: we shut them out. The Turks build ha-
rems for their women; but we ind II neces
sary TO abandon to women orr abodes, and
construct harems tor ourselves.
nHumiiis,inx o. the truth u. i sifst y
confessed, tobacco IS woman 8 rival, Aer sne Z
&c, sfaI rival. 1t is the cigar and the pipe III
used 10 be wine and panch) that enable men
70 endure one another tie whole OF long
evening Remove from every club house ali
the means of in,oxieation--i. e., all the VINE
and ,obaeca--and seven ont OF every ten 0!
them would cease 10 exist IN one year Men
would come together for few evenings, as
usual, talk over the evening papers yawn A. Q
Z . away, perhaps go hone-a place Wnicn
onr confirmed clubl lists only know IS con-
vaoirnee for sleeping and breakias NJ. One
~ N. worst effects of smoking is that II
daaiens our susceptibility to tedien, and en-
ables us to keep on,enduriag what we onght
10 war against and Okercome- II Is drunken
psoole who won't go home till morning..
Tyrauts and oppressofs are wrong IN drawing
50 e,uch revenue from tobacco; they ought
rather to give it away, for il tends to enable
people TO sit down coBtent under every kino
Of oppression
And while Parton goes on With his spark.
ling dairioe, re reach up to its shell and
take doxn g Spectator papers, " hich, like
good wine, are only the better for having the
favor OF sge, and Addison commences gar
roasiy, i was yesterday inla coffee house,
not far from the Royal Exchange where /
observed three persons IN close conference
ovas pipe of tobacco upon which, having
filed one for my own n.e, lighted il at The
little wax candle that stood before them !:
and after hasin. thrown in t~o or three
whiffis amongs. them, sat down and made one
of the company Aud as Addison talks on
ffon oat a thin cloud of tobacco smoke, and
We think hoR much has been done from the
pen 10 the sword in the company Of the cigar,
or tie pipe, we haven't great hopes tina. Par.
to. will induce the majority TO do more Than
listen At him with good natured Incredibly
While hs beraies the cigar they are be while
enjoying Then there is George Silver
man Explana,ion.n by Charles Dickens,
vaici, the great noysiist didn't nsSd at ali
fcrhis fame, and soit will add nothing TO 4
Hedges essay on Characteristics OF Ge>
rias is scholarly paper as are also
. Beaumont and Fletcher, Massiager and
Ford by L. T. Whippia, and The E6ey>
clopedists." by John G. RosengaEten. In
J. Tie Destructive Democracy id delinea>
ted With just dislike the Mepbisfophelian
character of the party Of great Immoral
ideas. The other articles are: Orion A
Week in Sybaris. by E. 4. Hale, The Vic
lin, by Alfred Tennyson FIotsam and Jet.
sans; Doctor Molke's Friends, by Df. Hayes;
The Romance Of Certain Old Clothes, by
Henry James; The Meeting, BY JIG. Viii,
tier; -Four Months on The Stage.
TnE BRoApwAr has dispensed With ths,
crnde and astounding title cover, and wears
substitute Of filter good taate and neatnes.
= Brakespesre = ID continued. Francis Tur-
ner Pal crave, OF Ok ord College. has good
pager on Public Statues in Londpu.n In
tha course Of it he thus lectures American
writer's for going abroad:
= Some revolution, analogous to tina. initia-
ted by Hogarth, from the books and reviews
which hare reached the writer appears 10 BIZ
required in America There, as in eighteenth
century England, in spite OF considerable
activity and pleasure IN art. an unfeasoning.
reliance on European Taste seems I'd prevail :
q ha.t-unconscioas dstruss Of native power !;
a disposition, ~ least, among artists or Their
I atrons to think thai art IS only to be learned
abroad. That is particularly perceptibie in
f.f tt,fn ae.xxn Ia rh.rk L. A -
can mind shows marked bias, which should
in time produce good work. La the interests
of this noblest Of the fine arts, may an Eng
iishman be alowedto observe that ID is nm ir-
jarous tendency which leads American
sculptors, like some English, to settle in
Italy? Attractive as the prospect may seem
in tie pages OF sentimental novelist, igno-
rant OF art. everything is there really against
them: ancient models, mostly indifferent,
whan compared with orr fsagmentsof genu-
inc Greek art, and rarely useful as guides for
modern practice: renaissance models most
y unsel!rtnrsl in sfyie. however beautiful or
grand in their execution; a native mod rn
school detestabie in taste, th ugh seductive
BY its SNOWY cleverness; above all, coterie
worship OF the most ruinoas kind; idle and
dilet.ante wealth seeking to fatter itself by
pairoaizing nrt, and blinded in its pursuit Nv
the flst.ery WHICH it receives, in turn, from
the interested artist. This sickly malaria
was near running Michael Anglo himself. 1t
is. hence, little wonder that Rome. Il, the
present day. has bred no great or sound
| senl pter for centuries at best 4 Cauoya, q
fhorwaldsep, or a Gibson. to show how fatal
adeiusjon ii il, even for men with some uatu.
raj location for art, TO put their lrus, in con
noisseursh,p and fashion, museums and my
thologies
Robert Tones has found highly interest
ing totic 10 Emigrants in America Hen
u sed'ey, Of the found Table, writes well
Of international Prejudices.n "Mrs.
Holmes Grey is long poeu, BY William
u. Roaset,i, and it depends very decidedly,
indeed, upon the mental bent OF the reader
whether he ia attracted or repealed By NJ.
aassetti's exalGnatory note why the poe,.
which was written ia 1919, was never pub.
iished until nov. The note is as follows.
The reader will observe the already -
mote date a. which this poem was writ,pn.
Those were the days when the r,a RapL@I;,e
movement IN painting was first started. +.
who was as much mixed up and interested 10
Il a. any person not practically an artia;
could well be, entertained the idea that the
IKE principles might be carried ont in poetry;
| aud that il woald be possibe, without losins
| the poesicat. dramatic, or even tragic tone and
| impression, TO spproach nearer 10 ahe sctual.
1 'tsss q dialogue and nAfTxfiou tsa6 had eve,
yet been dose. With n u.lprActiced hand
| ne. .n ina experiment; ard he result i hi