Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-01-28
PartnerShip.

LITTLE GIRL ADDRESSES THE MOTHER OF HER PET
KITTEN.
You need not be looking around at me so:
She's my kitten, as much as your kitten, you know
And I'll take her wherever wish her to go.
You know very well that the day she was found,
II hadn't cried, she'd have surely been drowned
And you ought to be thankful she's here safe and
sound!
She is only just crying because she's goose;
I'm not squeezing her-look, now!-my hands are
And she may as wen hush, for it's not any use.
And you may as well get right down and go way,
You're not in the thing we are going to play.
And, remember, it isn't your half of the day
You're forgetting the bargain we made-and so
In the morning she's mine, and yours all after
And yOu couldn't teach her to eat with spoon:
SO don't let me hear you give one single NEW.
do you know what will happen, right of, II you
She'll be my kitten mornings ana afternoons too.
-Hargnlet Vdndegriu in 81. Nicholas for Feo,r4e-
~, 1882.
/ RAN ACROSS A CIGARETTE FACTORY the
other day. Whew! | wouldn't write-or. rather.
you wouldn't dare to print-wlat l saw. Dirty
butts of cigars fresh from the filth of the muddy
streets are the cleanest and incest of the NATE
rial used in compiling these precious roads TO
rum. came down town on Madison avenue
car this evening, and on the tail end there were
three little chaps. the eldest about H. Each
smoked cigarette and spat his little life away
Ventured to ask If they enjoyed the odor
They said they did. And the taste? Certainly.
on lnquiring, l found they had well-known
brand of cigarette, noted for its .opium Soak
and its terrible smell when burning. Poor
little devils. They can't last long. They were
pale and sickly, puny and offensive. What kind
OF men will they make? Men? They're men
already ia their own eyes: They and majority
day, up in all the catches, and abundaptIy
able to hold uD their end of conversation. I
subsequently saw these three boys i'm Niblo's
Garden. 1t would have done you good to hear
mem TAX. blind man might reasonably
think he was listening to three old men. Moth
ing was new. They had seen it all before. and
better done at that. Down went the curtain
out went the boys, but before they felt the first
breath OF fresh air from the street each puny
hand held cigarette to the vile-smelling month
and, puff! puff! they sickened eyerybod in their
vicinity. This is an old grievance of mine, and
| don't care to bore you with it. but feel II
keenly. Day by day the vice grows stronger.
There was time when cigarette smoking was
confined almost entirely to Cubans who knew
what good tobacco was and made their own
cigarettes. Gradually the habit spread Deal
ers followed suit. Makers became unserupu-
lous. Little dirty boys were sent out to pick up
ctsaf stumpS Othef equally disgusting
material was also utilized. Opium was
made to do duty. Cheap paper took the
place OF rice paper. wish these boys could
see the stuff their paper is made FROM Wouldn't
1t turn their little stomachs? trow, trow.
The cheap paper, the old stumps. the opium
and the chemicals used to make them ..strvng"
deserve TO be shown up. Parents have no In
iuence with their sons Why not2 Because
they smoke cigars or pipes themselves. The
boys charge oil the good advice they get to
their fathers desire to keep them down. There
is but one way to deal with American boys.
Reason with them through their eyeA II every
nicOtined stomach was made public. II every
time fellow died Of too much cigarette the
fact was inside known. u the proud boys could
be shown . rag factory and 6tunp kxindory. &
seems TO me Tho clU1ret3e buslne9 would Be
xonns sR ysy eeea-z1e Ise1 IT, 8 ~.