The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-06-02

the other hand, to Mr.. Wilkie Collins to
bacco is his friend. When [ read, be
says, attacks on smokers | feel indebted 10
the writer. He adds largely to the relish of
my cigar Mr.. Anthony Trollope, too,
gives his testimony in favor of the weed,
having been a smoker all his life. Mr..
Thomas Hardy never smoked = pipeful in
his life, and never found alcohol helpful in
novel writing Mr.. James Payn is a con-
slant smoker, and the g%uiltiest of his breth-
rem. He smokes the whole time he Is writ
ing = TIRE hours a day-and after meals.
Those who object to it he thinks have never
tried It or find 1t tisagrees with them.
hlng>ieg ~"S I greet smoker He used q
long ana c.e"iI ciay pipe; when they sccu-
mulated tHey were sent back I be relaxed.
Tourgenieff, the Russian novelist. neither
smokes nor drinks. Mark Twain beg n.
according to his own account. TO smoke i'm
moderately when eight years old, Glowing
himself 100 cigars a month, when twenty
ne smoked 200 a month, and by the time he
was thirty his monthly allowance was 900.
For four months he works FIVE hours a day,
and five DAYS in the week and smokes the
time he is at work. Wine he finds a clog
to the pen, but two glasses of champagne
are an admirable stimulant to the tongue.
Mr.. Frederic Harrison has never touched
tobacco in his life. The Rev. Mark Patti
son has been a smoker all his life.
OF all people in the word one might
ftirly expect to find the traveller and the
newspaper correspondent ia the ranks of the
smokers. DR.. w. H. Russell, for instance,
has smoked and taken wine for years Mr..
ODounovan gives some very strong, evil
dence in favor of stimulants, and dra 5 a
picture of his arrival in some wretched mud
built town, Where he his lain down in some
miserab e hovel worn out with fatigue nd
and anxiety. But the newspaper letter had
TO be written. 1t was then tn t he found
stimulAnts gave him him energy to I'M
pack his writing materials, lie on his face.
and propped on both elbows to write for honrs
10y the light OF a smoky lamp Mr.. Henry
finds it difficult to write without smoking
Mr.. Sala has been u constant smoker for
nearly forty years, but 'as to smoking stu
pefylng a m.n's faculties or bunting his
energy, that allegation | take TO be mainly
nonsense" He declares, however, tn if
he had 10 live his life over again he would
never touch tobacco. According to NJ.
Taine a cigarette, is useful between two
ideas--when he has the first hut not the
second. Three-fouIths of the men of let
ters of his Acquaintance smoke, but none Of
them has resource to alcohol. NJ. Taine
declares that English journalists write their
articles with the aid Of q bOttle of cham
payne. with US" he adds, 1.-The articles
are written in the daytime. We have,
therefore, no need TO resort to this stlmu-
ant" There are many more opinions which
we have no space to quote. 1t is sufficient
to add that Mr.. Re4de's conclusion is that
alcohol and tobocco are of no value to a
healthy student; the most vigorous thinkers
and hardest workers abstain from stimulants
The student will probably think out the
problem for himself, but he might do worse
than consult Mr.. Reade's curious collection,
and think over the words of Wendell
Holmes: Il do not advise you, young man,
to consecrate the flower of your youth to
painting the bowl of a pipe, for, let me as
sure you, the stain of a reverie-breeding mar
cotic may strike deeper than you think. |
have seen the green leaf of early promise
grow brown before its time under such
n~icotian regimen, and thought the brown
ambered meerschaum was dearly bought at
the cost of a brain enfeebled and will en-
shaved. PAL Mall Gazette.