The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-04-10

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?. sympathetic view of the case, I an
compelled reluctantly to say it does
mot. The very fact that it tends Il
make him contented with his let, il
point against his pipe. Whenever
in this free and great America We
see a man past fifty, performing long
tasks, or common hireling, laber
ing in matters that requires little
skill or thought, we know that there
must have been some great defect
or waste in that mans life. mean
to say that it tends to make him sat.
isfied with a lot, which it is his chief
and Immediate duty to alienate. He
ought TO hate and loathe his tumble,
down cabin. to which he goes to his
home in the evening; instead Of sit
ting down in stoIid selflshness to
smoke. he should assist his wife (as
she gets the worst of it, Better the
merry song, the cheerful talk, the
pIeasantlstrSll.g than this dulling the
senses and the brain i'm smoke. No
bier the conscious misery of such a
home than the artificial lethargy of
the pipe. If it does not pay this
man to smoke, it pays no man. If
this man cannot smoke without in
justice TO others. no man can. aaoa q
Now we will examine the ether
side of the question. The ladies' are
the natural enemies Of tobacco.
Smoking lures and detains men from
the society Of ladies. Men are net
socrety; women are not society; So
cietyis the mingling of the two sexes
in such way that each restrains and
inspires the other. That community
is forgone in. degeaeracy. in which
men prefer to band themselves to-
gether, and do not crave the society
of ladies as the chief charm of exist
ence. 1t is humiliating truth that
tobacco is wonan's rival her only
successful rival. It is the cigar and
pipe that enable men to endure one
another during the whole of a long
evening. One of the worst effects
of smoking is that it deadens cur
susceptibility to tedium, and ena.
bles US to keep on enduring what we
ought to war against and overcome.
1t is drunken people who won't go
home till morning"
One of the mysterious effects of
tobacco upon the 6 male of our spe-
cies' is to disenchant him with re-
gard to the female. II it does not
make man less masculine. it keeps
his masculinity in state Of partial
terpor, which causes him to look
upon woman without enthusiasm,
without romantic elevation of mind,
without any feeling of awe and ven-
Grafton for the august Maker Of cur
race. The point is; simply this: to-
baceo tends to yitiate the relations |
between the sexes, lessons mans in
terest, in woman. and make him con-
tent with the companionship of men.
This is the true reason why every
lady of spirit is the irrepressible foe
to tobacco. Instinct causes her to /
see that the ridiculous brown leaf is
the rival Of her sex. Women do not 1
Gisappreve their rivals-they hate
them.
Horace Greely said: "When /" q
man begins to smoke he Immediate
ly becomes hog" He certainly
used the word hog in two senses /:
hog. an .unclean creature, and hog, 8
creature devoid of what is due other
creatures. Smoking is certainly un-
clean, and blunts the sense of neat
ness. Nevertheless, some of our
best men smoke. Smoking is not
monopoIized by bIackguards = all
classes are addicted to the habit.
In pathological lvein let US exam
inc its effects Ina recent Clinical
lecture on Nervousness in the |
Male.n by Prof. S. Weir Mitchell. !
make the following extract: &C. j.,
aged %, about feet 10 inches high, |
and weighing 135 lbs. tells me this
story; At the age Of .18 he was well,
active, and of rather cool and quiet
temperament, not in the least a ner-
vous lad. At this time he began to
learn cigar making, and has been at
the trade until a year ago, when he
gave it up. He has been in all ways
temperate, and curiOusly enough has
not learned to smoke or chew. This
trade has been. however, in my opin.
ion, disastrous to his nervous sys-
TEN, and this is not an exceptional
case, as have seen others who have
been in like manner injured by the
same occupation, By slow degrees.
but more and more each year, this
young man has developed nervous
constitution which he attributes to
the work he did-a conclusion In
which, fully agree. At least, it
drove him from the trade. and now
he is here for relief. Let ns look at
the range Of symptoms he presents
he is sallows and inclined TO anoe.
mia. His appetite is fair, his diges.
ton uncertain. good to-day and bad
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