Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-08
Some Great Men Who Smoke.

Some TREAT Men Who Smoke,
Some authors assert that smoking
dates back into antiquity. Be this az
it may, we can surely trace it back to
the aborigines of America. The smok.
ing OF herbs or leaves for medicinal pur-
poses has been practiced from a very
early period in many countries. mas.
much as pipes have been dug up in
places near the Roman wall, in the
north of England, and at the Roman
stations, it has been taken for granted
that the Roman soldiers smoked fifteen
hundred years ago.
Oliver Cromwell was bitter enemy
to smoking, as were also Charles I. and
Charles II. But, notwithstanding per.
secution, smoking grew in favor, and
in the reign of William III. it was
almost universal custom. pipes
grew long then, and, ruled by Dutch
man, all England smoked"
Some of the Puritans were moderate
smokers in England and also in Amer.
lea, and some of the New England
women enjoyed INDUCING in pipe.
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, wife of
Joseph Rowlandson, of Lancaster,
Mass, had the misfortune to be cap
tured by the Indians in the year 1765.
during King Philips war. Being
brought into the presence of Philip,
that redoubtable chieftain courteously
offered her pipe, according to the In
dian custom. :" But smoking" she
says, "did not suit my present feel
ings for, though had formerly made
use of tobacco, yet I had used none
since I was TAKEN" The fashion is not
yet entirely obsolete among the women
OF New England, and is INDUCED in
by some of the women of the west and
south.
In 1859 Cardinal st. Croix, who was
a great smoker, introduced tobacco into
Italy.
In 1890 Pope Innocent XII. excom-
municated all who should take snuff OF
use tobacco in church, but in 1874 Pope
Benedict revoked this bill, as he him
self used tobacco immoderately.
Perhaps the most celebrated female
smoker was Nine. Dudevant George
Sand), who loved to smoke cigar
while at work ON her interesting nov.
els. Emily Faithful is very fond OF
smoking cigarettes.
Robert Hall, the celebrated divine, il
said to have preached his most eloquent
sermons after smoking pipe in his
vestry. This was also the case with DIR.
Parr, who sometimes smoked twenty
pipes in an evening, and never wrote
well except under the influence of to.
bacco. Bishop Kennel relates that
Thomas Hobbs, the philosopher OF
Malmesoury, retired to his study every
day after dinner, and had his candle
and ten or twelve pipes of tobacco laid
by him then, shutting the door, he
fell to smoking, thinking, and writing
for several hours. Although he smoked
excessively he lived to the age of 90.
Sir Isaac Newton was very fond OF
his pipe. He lived to a ripe old age,
and lost but one tooth, which would
seem to disprove the assertion that to.
bacco Injuries the teeth. Aired de Mus
set, Prosper Merimee, and Eugene Sue
were excessive smokers. Lord Pal
merston was great smoker and smoked
his ten or twelve cigars day, to pre-
serve his health" he said: this, too,
after he passed his S0th year.
Thomas Carlyle, in mild weather,
likes to sit or walk in his garden and
smoke long clay pipe. Lord Lytton,
Lord Eldon, Louis Napoleon, Moore,
Campbell, and Byron were moderate
smokers. The late j. M. Kemble, au-
thor of The Seasons in England" was
u tremendous smoker. Lord Beacons-
field loved the long pipe in his youth,
but in middle age pronounced it the
tomb of love-" He gave UP smoking
years ago to please his wife.
John Milton never went to bed with
out having first smoked q pipe and
drank glass of water. Addison used
to frequent Buttons" where he had
a pipe in his mouth at all hours. Field
ing, the famous novelist, both smoked
and chewed. Dickens, Jerrold, and
Thackeray all pulled. Sir Walter Scott
smoked in his carriage and regularly
after dinner, loving both pipe and
cigars. He gave the following advice
" Learn to smoke slowly. Cultivate
calm and intermittent puffs.
Charles Lamb has sung the virtues
of tobacco in his poem, Farewell to
Tobacco" in which he owns his weak
ness in the famous words:
For thy sake, tobacco,
Would do anything but die.
Ben Johnson loved the "divine weed "
and describes its use with the gusto Of
a connoisseur. Rev. @. FL. Spurgeon,
the celebrated Baptist preacher OF
London, is a great smoker. On one
occasion the Rev. G. Fl. Pentecost, Of
Boston, addressed an audience in
Spurgeon's tabernacle, in which he de-
nounced smoking as an offense in the
sight of God. When he had finished
speaking Mr.. Spurgeon got up and told
his people that he saw no possible sin
in smoking, and electrified Brother
Pentecost by remarking that. as soon
as the services were over, he was going
to smoke a cigar himself. Rev. w. II.
II. Murray enjoys cigar as well as a
good dinner. The same may be truly
said of great many celebrated divines.
The late Commodore Vanderbilt was
an inveterate smoker, and would smoke