The Opelousas courier., 1889-07-13
nAneERous EXPERIMENT.

~ Caution to Wives Who Obi Get
AH" to the Smoking Habit.
,voman, whom she once met on
sraiu, told Lydia jackson Lam
" q how she kept her husband from
ppasinp. ION our wedding day." she
= 81 made what / called q declara-
~ - II principles to my husband. I
"a 10 him that it was my purpose to
s.sa his conduct my guide in all re-
.s.cts. that in our family there would
Y q separate standards and whatever
!. you'd think right for himself should
9 ,;cht for me-" You see what was
.s,.iTg. s.One evening supper was
the shades drawn and the lamp
gsbted, and we we're seated for an
evening of reading or sewing, when
- husband took up his pipe for an
s,sninr smoke. Seeing this, | calmly
drew from my pocket a pipe, which l
hapau to fill with tobacco exactly as he
ms doing. As he proceeded, so did I.
fooolly scratched a match, lighted the
.;na and took o Whit" Well, as the
royaan told Lydia the story-the
husband of course gave up. Good
..o,r. as far as it goes, but l can't help
thinking what, oh, suffering sisters,
vbat would have happened if that
k~ipd.hesrted husband had not relent-
Il. but had kept on smoking, and per-
mited-invited-nay, urged his wife
Is ioin him? What kind of an evening
would they that is, what kind of an
evening would she have enjoyedp Oh,
sisters. never, no matter what Lydia
I~amphere's friend tells you, never try
That cure on your husbands-your re-
spectiye husbands, that is. It won't
work. with oil men. 1t would cure one
Of YOU Of smoking; that | am sure of,
hut it wouldn't be him. You may safe
IL try it, if you are fond of excitement
81 d rather limp and stingy kind; it
won't kill You, ever if you do take
yonr first smoke with a briar pipe'and
aigger-head tobacco. But you a
produce the same effect upon yourself
With q milder drug. / tremble-es-
pecially about the shoulders-when
think what awful scenes may be
precipitated in happy homes by
the fallacious theories taught in
this story. Why, sister, l have seen
a boy, a great, strong, rough boy,
iourteen years old, so wrought upon
hy o mild ive-cent cigar, not more
han half smoked, that he has
stretched himself supinely upon the
cold bosom OF the inhospitable earth
and waited with an unconcern that
would chill your blood for death, his
father or the doctor to come along,
and he didn't care a cent which got
the first whack at him. And when you
think OF o grown-up woman, a mar
RED woman, mother of children, ray
be- starting in ON a pipe-well. I
don't wan. to think of it, that's all.
FTe got to go to bed some time to-
Rlgh1 and can rest just as well with
ut the nightmare as | can with it and
DOT ahollern till / wake up the whole
house. But / can not close without a
parting word of warning. Don't you
listen to Lydia Lamphere on this
question, for she's your friend, and l
doat want you to turn against
BET. You take the advice of a
nan who knows more about pipes
than you do about husbands, and don't
Toa go to smoking in order to break
him q it Even if you don't die, you
night learn to like it as well as he
ises, and then where would you be if
e should want to quit? Don't you
anoke pipes; you chew gum, if you
must do something wicked. You can
sorry the immortal life out of him
alta that il you'll only keep at it, and
alk snd chew q great deal at the same
aile. That's very effective. You
ssap the quid and your jaws going and
ael give up drinking, chewing, smok-
ag, betting, swe-no, he'll grow
sorsa about that, but he'll give up
aefy thing else. Unless, in a furious
'pasn oi Insanity. he breaks your jaws
we 9 cricket bat and jumps off the
sldge at the end of the third week
7aOOert y. Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle.