The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-07-11

is scripture Can one touch pitch ant
not be defiled Herewith p Can one de
file his mouth and retain any sensibilit.
as to any deflement2 1t is rationa
impossibility that when you have fou
mouth you can have any care for clean
ness in anything. As the habit become!
fixed 1t depraves the whole body, anc
destroys all sensitiveness toward unclean
ness in all things. Without the least
remorse you will spit in hotels, halls, bal
rooms, theaters, churches, and on the
side walks, where women have to drag
their elegant skirts, befouling all their
elegance with your nastiness
You will be one Of that dirty army who
force into the most conspicuous places in
households that disgusting thing, a spit
toon. There is no necessary bedroom
utensil which would be more offensive to
the undepraved mind, as a standing dish
in the living rooms, than this spittoon.-
on may become a man of a family OF
respectable position-though a tobacco
chewer can never be thought a man of
refnement-and as an appendage to wife
and children you may be invited to your
nelghbor's houses, and wherever you go
you will be a terror to housekeepers. AS
soon as you come you must be provided
with dish to hold your foul voidings.-
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to your filthiness. But this will not
make the house secure. Every matron
knows the ways of the tobacco chewer,
and knows that he has no cleanly sensi-
bility to give him conscience to keep
him from defiling the floors, carpets,
walls, and furniture of others.
With the depraving effect of tobacco
chewing you will lose conscientiousness
and become sneak, going about slyly
and dropping your spittle iu corners, on
the carpet, behind beds Or chairs, any
where that you think is unobserved at
the time. You will go to a party at
friends house and destroy the carpets of
the dressing and card rooms, of the halls,
and of all other rooms where the eye of
the matron is not upon you. The woman
who gives party does it at the cost of
the deflement of all her sacred apart
ments and at the ruin of her carpets, by
such tobacco chewing sneaks as you will
become if you take on this habit. You
may be tolerated in respectable society,
but you will always be a terror to house
keepers, and will never be regarded as
any but coarse and degraded man.
You will cut yourself off from that
ton which is peculiar to the human race,
and for which it alone has the fitting
features-namely, kissing The benef-
cent Creator has given to human crea-
lures beautiful, soft, sensitive lips. In
stinct seems to have taught them the
Creators design of these to express af-
fection. from the holy kiss of parent and
child, to the more ardent one of lovers,
and so on to the sobered conjugal kiss
This mode of expressing and exchanging
affection alone lifts the human race SO
high above all other animals as to make
it godlike. From this pure enjoyment
of the paternal and filial kiss, the sober
of the conjugal kiss, the &C.
stacy of the lovers kiss, you will cut
yourself off by making your kissing place
a hole of filth, your lips stained with that
which it is dirty insult to present to
any decent lips, and your breath a stink.
Your kisses may be tolerated by those
that have to submit, but they will be a
punishment. The deflement of your
mouth will so degrade your nature that
you will have no conscience or sense of
to keep you from forcing
your kisses on those who can not refuse
them, but they will always give sensa-
ton of disgust. Who is there that has
not among the earliest recollections of
his childhood that of some coarse friend
of the family, who forced him with kiss
from a mouth reeking with an odor the
nastiest that the young senses had ever
felt? If you are tobacco chewer with a
to kiss, you will be a terror to
wife and children, and to all the child
rem of your relations.
This habit is so common in the United
States that in the mass it has degraded
the ideas of cleanliness by accustoming
them to the sight of nastiness everywhere.
And you, like the rest, when you have
become hardened by this habit, will ha
drop your spit and your spent
cuds in the most conspicuous places on
the sidewalks and in all public places
But while the degraded mass counte
nance you in this filthy practice, you
must be content to be ranked with them;
you can not be ranked as a man of cul
ture and refinement. And when you go
to Europe, you will find that the Amer-
can is peculiarly the splitting beast, and
that in no civilized country does this
mean habit prevail. When you cross in
the steamship, whose decks are scrubbed
every morning, you will observe that the
Americans are the only persons that spit
on the deck, and that you belong to a
which has the nastiest men in
the world. These are some of the penal
ties boy will subject himself to who
learns to chew tobacco.