The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-30
MY EXPERIENCE WITH TOBACCO
BY A MINISTER'S WIFE.

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add word. and give another version from
ia different standpoint If he is "dowr
on Tobacco" / don't know where am
and will leave my readers and him tr
Judge. From my earliest recollection
when sent to avillage store, grocery OF
post office, was obliged to keep my
mouth tight-shut, only when necessary to
speak, and often wished I could have my
nose tied upl . ~ s8%IT
! Why? Tobacco!
| When [ went to church I tried to wor.
ship God in prayer and praise, to look
at the minister and listen to the sermon,
but my senses oVerpowered me, and /
would keep wishing all the time that Mr..
w did not use tobacco, or would
change his coat, hair and whiskers, or
else tumigate them before coming to the
house of God. After patient endurance
year after. year,my father(who is an elder,
who does not use tobacco) decided, as Mr..
W did not die or move, to change our
family pew where we had sat since the
church was built. and so tore asunder all
past associations, sacred ties and memories.
For what? Tobacco! And where, even
In Gods house, could we go and rot find
the perfume OF Tobaccoe Alas for pulpit
and pew
Every day of my life, verify believe,
have been annoyed by tobacco, except
ing IN my own sanctum, yet not one of
my immediate family use it.
When young man of excellent repu
tation, intelligence and business capacity,
honored me with his love,and offered me
all man could offer, why did ] refuse
him? Tobacco Marry a man that uses
tobacco? Never! And / sincerely wish
every young lady in the land would vow
the same. ............... ...,...; ....
Yoked to man for lifetime whose
breath and clothing would never be free
from the sickening properties of dead
smoke, when cannot endure sitting on
the same side of the room with him? An
Yet know mary wife
martyr, whose disposition is soured by
this lifelong trial. Elder Slocum, is there
no sin in this? Bum 81 b,ah =.
"Ih0u shalt not SMOKE" Is the second
great Commandment, ii not the first Beg
pardon, Elder Sloeum; but get your Bible,
and read: Thou shalt love thy neighbor
'as thyself," Is it loving your neighbor
to be so perfumed as to sicken, nauseate
aud disgust them? And as 60 the First
Commandment, am not sure but most
men love their cigars more than their
Maker. ..-....ls-. ............ ....
But l am not yet through with my ex-
perience. After time. gentleman, and
minister, too, who did not use tobacco,
asked me to become his wife; and he did
not have to ask twice, or sit on one side
of the parlor and / the other. We could
sit onthe same tete a.tete, without breath
OF offence or thought of tobacco. We have
travelled smicably since, but tobacco has
met us everywhere, from the Mississippi
to the coast of Maine Even while ascend
ing Mount Washington on ponies, where
we did expect to breathe heavens pure
air, the sickenlng fumes of merechaum
pipe tainted the air for six out of the
eight miles ascent; and when, by most
gentlemanly expostulation requested to
fall in she rear, the would be gentleman
uttered an oath and held his place; so we
were obliged to slacken pace, and thus
tried to avoid tobacco. 2 pa .."#
A predecessor in this parish, celc-
brated d. D., also L. L. d., whom all the
country loved and honored, of whom we
have heard much, for ''he was remark
able man :" 'For what was he remarka-
ble?" GA remarkable smoker" Gan ex-
traordinary smoker" "His study used to
be black with smoke" yes, DR.. II. was
o good man, but" a-<- ~-"1t
"But WHAT" He would smoke a pipe"
Thesa are the remarks we hear daily,
and always the but--What u record for
such a man! A slave to appetite, and
his moral and religious influence crippled
by just so much. He lives yet, and 'has
passed his three score years and ten."
fancy he will always live in this commu
nifty, "for he yet speaketh" Shall I tell
you why? | cannot go in single public
place, market, drygoods store, grocery,
depot, postoffice, or church Presbyterian
at that and hardly a house, without be
ing met by the smell of tobacco And
even the boy beginners, when remon.
strated with, quote him as their illustrl-
Gus example. E '".
My last experience was alta Wedding
and q delightful occasion it was, too,
After the pretty bride and manly, hand
some groom had left for the depot, and I,
tired and weary, went to the ladies' dress
| ing-room and, found merry group of
young ladies and young men chatting,and
1.-THE latter smoking, what was it made me
say, silently: 20 dear! Can't I go any.
where and not find tobacco?" And then,
after waiting, growing more and more
nauseated, say audibly:" Gentlemer, be.
lieve this is the ladies' private dressing
room, and your tobacco is offensive"
! Was it a righteous indignation9 Have
ladies no rights: Answer me! Who was
rude, they or I?a Have these loTdslof crea=
ton but 5o,sayl awith your permission, la
dies" and light their cigars? aud the La
dies. tamely submit, enduring offence out
Of false politeness? 0o1l = Z ,N .7f rs
Thus.I am ANNOYED and made uncon-