The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-05-19
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And what means the label "Smok
ing-cars?"
Think for a moment Of the strang
potency Of a habit which makes tn
public parading Of such rules necessa
ry in order to preserve common de
cency. 1t is bad enough as it is-in
deed, it is often more than the limo
cent part Of the travelling publi
knows how to bear; but were thes
very few and sometimes ill-kept regu
lations entirely done away with, sucl
dreadful tyrant is this TOBACCO ant
so mcomprehensible and almost in
calculably is it stronger than its sub
jects, that reign Of terror, Woul'
speedily ensue, when no nncontamlna
ted man, woman, or child would dar
to venture forth. Eo not this strang'
lack of consideration and courtesy due
in part, at least, to- the benumbing
may [ no6 add -demordlizing effect o.
the habit?
I olly wish the regulations were
far more numerous, and more string
eat. | wish our railroad director;
! would label certain cars 'F'0r the Un
clean" and then insist on the mos
rigorous separation, forbidding chew.
er or smoker to enter any other car
under some heavy penalty. How
wish they would do this.
| have seen gentlemen (?) enter 6
car, take seats, and, leaving their satch-
ell or overcoat In possession, retire tC
the smoking-car, lose themselves in
the dense, impure clouds Of some half
Ia hundred cigars, have their smoke
out, and then return to their seats
saturated from hat to boots with the
sickening fumes, a besmoked, unsavory
nuisance, more offensive than the
whifs from fresh cigar. And alas
peradventure this nuisance may be a
Rev, Prof, or a d. D., and man
of refinement too! How can such a
one endure for single minute the
polluted atmosphere and companion
ship Of the smoking-cars?
If an Arab regards splitting in his
presence as an insult, even if it be
outside his tent, can one conceive of
the just Indignation of American wo-
men when travelling in the cars?
There's little use in carefully holding
up ones dress and looking warily from
place to place. One may as well make
a covenant with her eyes and take the
first seat that comes. The men chew
and spit, they read and spit, they talk
and spit, they laugh and spit, they
breathe and spit, and some swear and
spit
Windows may be open at right and
left; but, apparently, they consider it
a sin to spit out Of them Well, it
acou7d be pity to sully the fair face
Of Nature; indeed, one might well
compassionate a country drenched in
such narcotic showers.
By lamplight, as by daylight, the
process goes on. And what scenes do
the Pickering lights disclose! Men
shaken out Of their dignity, tumbling
and rolling everyway, while some,
from their horizontal positions, now
spit more directly upon their neigh
bors. Women huddled up on the
seats, starting even in their slumbers
at these ever-threatening showers!
Will any one deny that this fashion
is an outrage against all propraety? !?
Ought passengers who have paid hon
estly for their tickets to be thus
doomed to perpetual terror? Why.
it is more dreadful than the sword of
l1I1s~'acles hanging over ones head.
II Young gentlemen must smoke"
sad Dan;al Webster, 'let them take
the horse-sned.n
Very dark this cloud in our hori-
zon: In true ganantry American man
kind is ahead, of tn, -yorld. Could we
only secure this ea~nesfly coveted
much-prayed-for reforla. it would ex-
alt this same American ;nto the ideal
gentleman But where wiz the pres
ent current land him?
There is a close if hidden connec-
tion between the minor moralitINs of
Christianity and what are regarded as
major ones, and no one can violate the
former without bunting his finer feei !;
ings and becoming far more likely to
infringe the latter.
In the Art Journal, jackson Jarves,
in treating of ''the manners Of the
Latin and Anglo Saxon races, consid-
cred as a fine art, attributes much of
the decline of fine manners to the IN
creasing use of tobacco. He says:
II refer only to its anti-eshetc influence The su-
prce test ofhe virtue of the knight in the days of
chivalry. which was the highest ideal of fine man
ners, his sef-denal and desire to succor the
pressed. The severest test of the modern gentleman
IS his Willingness TO forggo his pipe for the eoml9rt
bred to withstand this form of sef-induigence.
Uter 1t Gy f the or TO harm Rs to-
bacco may do the con5nmer;s body its comm3a S
we-befng of his neighbors. smoking is fast beeom-
of n anG to the Serious
of the minority. surely; there Is sufficient space
joy his weed; without poisoning the atmosphere Of
arouses to put an end TO the wanton torture OF
organic life in any form equally strikes at this spe-
$50 long the rules Of good breeding swayed smo
kers no gentleman would yeN others IN TINS way. IN
the ofPipcs and cigars. For abrief period the
rights of were respected but the whole
some restraint is fast disappearing. What once
the rule has now become the exception. @ smokers %
would escape their presence and claim the right 10
fGaIe t Women @ or e enltiYe Than their own and Some
with which they inffct positive distress on their
Germans are the worst examples of bad manners
in this respect for il never seems to enter into he
obige in other matters, that what is sensual hap
piness to them may be absolute misery to another.
Fremchmen are rapidly losing their proverbal po-
litcness, also, by this species of seindulgence."
Mr.. Jarves concludes with an illus
tration, showing that this tobacco
habit tends to develop boolish man
ners. Says he:
Il have known a German of rank with his daugh-
get into ladies' department in railway carriage
and Insist using his pipe despite the eXpostula
tlOns of the lady occupants, who finally were com
PEELED apply to the guard for protection, when he
was made TO go into the smoking carriage. As he
reluctantly went his daughter turned augrily to the
ladies. eXclamng: See what You have done to my
poor papa. You make him leave his place, to smoke
away from me- -
Is there, then, absolutely no refuge,
no quarantine by which these noxlous,
ever-pursuing, eyer-perseouting spir-
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