Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1876-07-08
Salad for Smokers.

There is much peace in tobacco A legend
even relates that it was introduced TO Europe
by man whose professional business was
peace.seeking. II is difficult to understand
the source of the pleasure derived from tobac-
CO. If il came from the sense Of smell we
might engage servants to smoke for US ana
preserve the wbiteness Of our teeth as well as
the iuoIiensiveness Of our hair and clotbes.--
If il depends on taste We should get more JOY
out of a quid than out of cigar. 1t cannot
belong to the touch, because chocolate pastii'es
and some needle-cases feel like cigars 10 hand.
The sight seems to have part in our delecta-
tion. because tobacco is almost deprived OF its
perfume by darkness yet'if its SAVIOR depen-
ded wholly on light, suggests sage who has
lost all mental coherence in smoky thoughts,
tobacco would give more pleasure in the sun
shine than in the shadow, and no true smoker
has ever piped assent TO such statement,
Van Hslmont, travelling in desert places,
AYERS that tobacco protected him for.long pc
riods against hunger or fatigue, and he de-
clares that he could make immense journeys
on foot with no other sustenance, A learned
man declaYes that we are srievously in error
who talk of "meorschaum" pipes we should
say "Kummer" pipes, aud commemorate per-
petually eur obligations to the discoverer OF
compound which hasinothug to do with the
sea nor with its foam. Anselm, who has
written profound work on pipes, ins'rucis
mankind that they should be of the simplest
forms. 50 as to be easily cleaned, aud that
there should never be auy wood, metal, or
horn connected with them. Hummer pipes
may be discroetly cleansed by pouring streams
of boi ling coffee Though them. Pipes
have had names, like swords-nanes born OF
love or glory and one is known in history as
"Anastacia." one as PARADISE" The first
belonged to poet, the other to 0mer Pasha,
who had aname to conjure with among tho
Turks. Tobacco is believed 10 have destroyed
tue art of conversation, but perhaps it has
only improved it. Smoking does not render
talk impossible or even difficult but il con-
denses it and makes it contentious. Tobacco
congresses long-windcd discourse into an
epigram The smoker wants no other furpi-
tu,e than some German tinder. II he begins
to burden himself with amber mou,bpieces,
clips and pinccrs. he ceases 10 be man and
becomes cupboard. Directly the first ash
falls off it The flavor is impaired, and tie
smoke becomes hot, acrid aud unwbolesome.
Smoking, which greatly increased in recent
years, is, at all events, much better than taking
soufT, which disgfaeod ihe very wais'coats OF
our forefathers. Youth and love depart from
us Tobacco romaips, and perhapsit coEsoics
us. II is the only form Of happiness which
is lef. TO some whom the world has treated nm
kindly. "Je te laisse ma femme ct mo pipe !;
je Ia recommande bien ma pipe" were the last
words of Gayarnis vsgabond. The dying
sood-for-nolbing was not ungrateful. No
man has ever laughed In smoking we are
rather gave with glad thoughts over our to-
bacco, and the morazins or demoralziDg
weed seems silently to convey to us the great
truth Of life, with which We do we'll to grow
familiar. "Tu quoque 10 pulyerem reverter-
is."-PdN Nal Rerie,o.