Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-16
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1 DANGER AHEAD!1

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ary. arguments against the weed?
''Such a waste of money, etc.
Why | have friend possessing a
stronger minded-or willed-wife
than mine; when they were married
she insisted on 'Sher share of tobacco |
money''-since he would not for her
sake discontinue its use. They have |
now been married several years, and |
his wife is the best dressed lady |
know. Purchasing her luxurious az
ticles of clothing with her ''tobacco
money" When she appears in her
rich laces, jeocels and VeIcets, some
murmur extravaganza" But which
is the more so think you? To invest
money in jewels that will bring back
nearly all the purchase money? Rich
laces that can be handed down to
grandchildren, as heir looms, or
smoke; which? No one will gainsay
that tobacco is dangerous to the.
health of its habitual users. Though
some may live to good old age, the
majority drop off with early paralysis.
Indeed an eminent physician attri-
butes the alarming frequency of apo
plexy, palsy, epilepsy j and heart dis
ease, to this baneful weed. A dis
tinguished French physician has pub
hshed the result of the use of tobac-
co by boys from nine to fifteen years
of age. In twenty-five there were
serious disorders of the heart, indi
gestion, dullness of intellect, and a
marked appetite for strong drink.
Ten could not secure sufficient sleep
from nervous arrangement, four had
liberation of the mucus membrane of
the mouth and throat; not one could
lie to mdnhOod's prime. had a
young friend that was obliged to re-
linquish his much loved cigars on ac-
count of heart trouble, caused by
their use. He would drop senseless
in the street. Physicians said ''He
must forego tobacco in any form if
he wished to live After discon-
tinuing its use, no more such attacks
troubled him, thereby proving the di-
rect cause.
But why waste my ink on you.
boys? You will doubtless cast this
free advice aside, pick up an ole
stump, and puff away with great gus
to, and when the sickening qualms
Gas well as those of conscience) are
over, and the habit is permanently
yours, you'll try as / am doing t.
warn others of the changers ahead.
Alas why waste our time in warn
ing the young; since they crave an(
will have experience Of their own
Why are they so willing and anxiou
to pay for the high priced lessons
Why do they long to turn and recros
the bridge to see if there really i
Changer" When in this crossin,
they may be lost, lost, lost. Boys
beg Of you to throw away that cigar
or the half chewed quid, if for n
other reason (and there is no bette
one) for the sake of that mother VIII
would grieve so to see it, All, n
one can realize the anguish such
sight causes mother. Z / have {
least this consolation. l never cau'
ed my mother that pang, as she die
in my infancy. Alas had she live
and exerted a mothers watchful cal
over me, | doubtless would not hay
acquired this and other evil habits
habits which if INDUCED in by you
an idOGzed son, cause deeper furroV
and wrinkles on mothers brow tina
those caused by over anxiety in yoV
babyhood. Only think of it, and yc
will eventually love and revere h
less after the tobacco habit is your
You cannot love her or any one ell
as you did before. Your very natu
is changed by it's use. To be sure
does not make a man a Uery brat
like its twin sister, alcohol. Alas !!
wish it did. Then public opiniC
would fight it just as hard. Boy
let me at least entreat you to sign
pledge of total abstinence from t
hacco in any form till you reach t
mature age of twenty-five or thir
years, and my word for it, your ma
hood will keep you from 'dang
ahead then, for l am convinc
that boys, not men, contract Il
abominably filthy habit.-Christi
at Work.
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