The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-02-25
columbus Dispatch.1
Protest Against Smoking.

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
wish to make an inquiry through
the columns of your paper, and it is
this: How are ladies to defend them
selves against the inhuman and un-
warrantable attacks of men and boys
who deliberately step into the street
cars and blow their polluting breath
and smoke right into the faces of la
dies who haye no means Of defense or
redress? Men and boys q can't say
gentlemen seem to feel that they are
privileged characters, and presume to
to do just as they please, and ladies
are expected to bear outrageous in
suits in silence.
A short time ago man entered the
car and took seat directly opposite
me with cigar in his mouth, in full
blast. ] got up and stepped across to
him, and leaning forward, | said in a
quiet way: "Did you see what was
outside the car as you came imp" He
looked up at me in surprise. and said,
"What?" mo smoking" | replied.
He jumped up, and, looking out of the
window, evidently discovered that he
had passed his place, and stepped of,
and was gone.
A few days later I got on car, and
to my surprise both the conductor and
driver were smoking. [ sat down
near the window next the driver. It
was very warm, and the window was
open. I got the full benefit of his ci-
gar. The conductor. seeing my dis
comfort, very politely came to me
with his own cigar still in his mouth,
and asked me if [ would like to have
the window closed. I replied, 'Yes,
sir; anything to be relieved of this
smoke" He hastily put down the
window and went back to his place
and threw his cigar away, and as he
walked cut [ said: ''Now, sir, | must
sit here and endure the heat to allow
you two gentlemen to smoke"
In less than five minutes newsboy
came in and sat down with a cigarette
in his mouth. By this time the car
was more than half full. and [ was o
exasperated that [ called out to the
conductor, "Sir, is this allowable?"
mo" he replied, and the boy tossed
it out.
These intolerable nuisances are of
three classes: No. 1 steps boldly into
the car, and leisurely smokes, regard
less of other passengers; No. 2 stands
on the platform and blows his loath-
some, disgusting fumes into the car;
No. 3. is polite enough to take the ci-
gar out Of his mouth, but seats him
self with the burning stump between
his fingers, and this is just as ofens-
i've as if he continued to smoke. And
now ask in the name of common hu-
manity, in the name Of the ladies of
this city, if this intolerable nuisance
can't be, in measure at least, abated? ?
A SUFFERER.
The people of Maine and Kansas,
the centre of the prohibition idea, are
notoriously among the least generally
educated and least advanced in every
respect of all the States Of the Union.
-Brevers' Journal.
Take all the people of Maine and
Kansas and Iowa who favor prohibi-
tion and you have the very best peo-
pie in the country. Take all the peo-
pie of New York city who oppose
prohibition and a meaner looking
crowd of tramps, bummers and Grim
inals could not be found in a journey
around the world. Take one hun
dred of the best men in New York
and seventy-fve of them will be Pro-
hibitionists. Take one hundred Of
the meanest and you will hardly find
one Prohibitionist. If the people of
lx,
among the least generally educated
the last census report will show it.
Will the Journal please give us the
figures? The bulk Of the Prohibi-
tionists of the country are church
members, and we venture to say that
the Journal cannot find a GROCERY
keeper in America who has sense
enough to exchange three cents worth
Of whisky for the last fifteen cents of
laboring man whose family he
knows is suffering for bread, who will
say that the church members in this
country ''are notoriously among the
least generally educated and least ad-
vanced in every respect. National
american.
At one OF the large retail clothing
stores of Washington Street, an old
lady, accompanied by six-footer Of
boy, both fresh from rural parts, ap-
peared. The old lady inquired: Have
yew an ulcer overcoat tew fit this
lad?" Eyes, ma'am,' replied a pert
salesman, 'we have ulcers, varioloids,
typhoids, and all the fashionable
styles" Dear me-" remarked the
aged woman, II think | have made
mistake. Amt this the General Hos
pital? Come, Nathan, let US go tew
some clothing store" And away they
went, to the chagrin of the would-be