Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02
DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT..
- Word OF Caution to Wives Who Obje
to the Smoking Habit.

HN0cnOOS EArEhlMEHIs
= Word of Caution to Wives Who Object
to the Smoking Habit.
A woman, whom she once met on
the train, told Lydia jackson Lam
phere how she kept her husband from
smoking. ION our wedding day." she
said, II made what called declara-
ton of principles to my husband.
said to him that it was my purpose to
make his conduct my guide in all re-
spects; that in our family there would
be no separate standards and whatever
he would think right for himself should
be right for me-" You see what was
coming. ''One evening supper was
over, the shades drawn and the lamp
lighted, and we were seated for an
evening of reading or sewing. when
my husband took up his pipe for an
evening smoke Seeing this, I calmly
drew from my pocket a pipe. which 1
began to fill with tobacco exactly as he
was doing. AS he proceeded, SO did l.
/ cOolly scratched a match, lighted the
pipe and took Whit" Well, as the
woman told Lydia tho story-the
husband of course gave up. Good
story, as far as it goes, but can't help
thinking what. oh, suffering sisters.
what would have happened If that
kind-hearted husband had not relent-
ed. but had kept on smoking, and per-
mitted-invited-na urged his wife
to join 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
Lamphere's friend tells you, never try
that cure on your Instantaneous re-
spective husbands. that is. 1t won't
work, with all men. 1t would cure one
of you of smoking; that am sure of,
but it wouldn't be him. You may safe
ly try it. if you are fond of excitement
OF rather limp and stingy kind; it
won't kill you even if you do take
your first smoke with briar pipe and
n1gger-head tobacco. But YOU can
produce the same effect upon yourself
with a milder drug I tremble-es-
pecially about the shoulders
l think what awful scenes may be
precipitated in happy homes by
the fallacious theories taught in
this story. Why, sister, 1 have seen
boy, a great, strong, rough boy,
fourteen years old, SO wrought upon
by a mild five-cent cigar, not more
than 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 q cent which got
the first whack at him. And when you
think OF grown-up woman, q mar
ried woman, mother of children, may
be, starting in on a pipe-well.
don't wan to think of it, that's ALL
Eve got to go to bed some time to-
night. and can rest just as we'll with
out the nightmare as can with it and
not "holler" till wake up the whole
house. But 1 can not close without
parting word of warning. Don't you
listen to Lydia Lamphere on this
question, for she's your friend. and 1
don't want you to turn against
her. You take the advice of
man who knows more about pipes
tudu yOu OO dUOub HuSDdQuS, ara QOQ'G
you go to smoking in order to break
him of it. Even if you don't die. you
might learn to like it as well as he
does. and then where would you be if
he should want to quit? Don't you
smoke pipes; you chew gum, if you
must do something wicked. You can
worry the immortal life out of him
with that if you'll only keep at it, and
talk and chew great deal at the same
time That's very effective. You
keep the quid and your jaws going and
he'll give up drinking, chewing, smok-
ing, betting, swe-no, he'll grow
worse about that, but he'll give up
every thing else. Unless, in furious
spasm of insanity. he breaks your jaws
with cricket bat and jumps off the
bridge at the end of the third week.
Robert j. Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle.