The Nevada picayune., 1885-04-09

tobacco? What is sulphuric acid gas, sulphuretted hydrogen or rot ton eggs, compared with tobacco smoke. And will you believe me, 1 have heard men say that they chewed tobacco to sweeten their breath. In the name of all that has twang, I would ask what their breath were before they com menced chewing! I believe if they " ould ask their wives they would tell them they preferred the origi' nal breath.
 Moreover which is great antiq. uity and against all humanity the husband shall not be ashamed to reduce thereby his delicate, wholesome, and clean cOmplexed wife to that extremity that either she must also corrupt her sweet breath herewith, or else resolve to live in a perpetual stinking tor ment If I had an unmarried sis. ter tsat I thought anything of, l would advise her as she regarded her physical and social comforts and the joys of connubial life, nev- CT to marry tobacco eater. But my beau only smokes his meers- haum, and that absorbs all the poison, she Gays, and it is so fash ionable. "Ny dear sister, that newspaper yarn about the poison being absorbed by the mershaum, is all mere shame, and if your beau is such a slave to this vile prac- tice, that he cannot give it up for vour sake as well as his own, you are better without him. Reverse tie matter, what 2oeld decent man think of his wife if she should go chewing, and spewing and pol. luting her mouth and breath and clothes and floor and stove and furniture and everything about her. And she has just as good a right 10 make beast of herself as he. saw on a Mississippi river steamer five or six southern wid' ows. and eSch widow instead of husband had taken snntf swab, and there they paraded with a snuff swab sticking out of their mouth, the tobacco oozc dripping down from the corlers. They hal their bottle, and frequently dipped their swab in it. Now on my word this is no exagge<ation although 1t was the most disgusting sight ever saw, it was in reality no more disgusting than what we see every day of the ether sex. We got hui 1 fy at Dickens for telling about our tobacco eating propensities. Dick- ems did not caricature us In this feature. HO pen or pencil can make tobacco worse featured than it is, more filthy, disgusting and loa.hsome. And we of the stars and strips, the model bipeds of the world, must acknowledge our sub lection to tobacco in his most stringent and revolting terms. AS Dr- Budgett says of London, 1t IS so ofus; tobacco meets us on every corner. Puppies in the guise oi officers and disguise of gentle men, puff their experience into ladies' faces who may be unpro- tected on the streets. Clerks and shop boys light their cigars as they draw on their gloves for an evening ramble. And little boys form smoking clubs, from three to twelve, passing their one pipe from mouth to mouth in the selud- ed hooks of every alley. It is here i that vice grows strongih ih company; here the little boy receives his first practical instruction in lar ceny, from his more advanced con- federates; around the pipe young pick-pockets hold their parlia- ment. There are parts Of. some cities where little boys not ten years old, are in the habit of steal ing bits of old iron and trading them off at doggeries fer cigars and tobacco of the cheapest ana most poisoning kind; filthy cigar stub is a god-send to them. What think you will become of these boys if God in his mercy does not cut them off in their youth? No wonder that our penitentiaries sfe full. It will need to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific, unlesss these springs of youthful vices arc dried up. Every public room IS