The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-06-04
Candy Coaxers,

your nlcKoI, cXcI6IHS u Lttle SIX.
year.old man as he reaches out a
chubby fist and deposits shining
nickel on the counter by which we
are standing. In moment more
he catches up his disguised bit Of
candy and marches proudly from
the store. NJ xt we hear, as he.
joins little company on the walk,
"My! they're most like real ones,
trent they, Tim?"
The grocer laughs, but we cannot.
Do you know why, boys? Later we
see this same little lad upon the
street putting away vigorously in
close imitation of many an older
smoker, though no poisonous vapor
escapes from his rosy lips,>o hides
his yellow curls. We know that
though wee iud, he is mothers
dear one, and he is thus playing
fire; that already very hurtful seeds
have found Judgement in his little
brain and heart and are now spring. !
ing up.
Have you ever known boy who
did the same thing? Do You say,
eyes, but what is the harm? they
are only candy cigarettes"
Let us see what the harm is.
They are only candy, we will admit
and taken into the stomach might
do no more than any other cheap
candy, but a greater harm than this
is done. Let me ask you ques-
ton: Why did that little fellow
buy the cigarettes rather than any
other kind of candy? Shall I an
swer? Well, it was because he
could hold these between his lips
and make believe he was smoking!
Do you ask, "What of that" and
add, "He wouldn't smoke a real
cigarette" Wouldn't he? Why
not? You think he would not be-
cause it would be wrong and would
harm him. Just so, then why
should a clean, pure hearted little
boy feel proud in making believe to
, do something which he knows
would be wrong, and would harm
him in every way if it were real
3 You know the real cigarette would
! keep him from growing up into a
strong and healthy boy; it would
i steal his red cheeks from him
would take away his power to learr
rapidly; would care less for goot
9. and beautiful things, and, If HI
kept on smoking, might even stea
his life from him. And yet he il
e. proud to be seen with those cand!
If limitations in his mouth which, I
N they were real, would do all this
n, Boys, what do you think about it
le Is the cigarette your friend or enc
,e my? Ought you to be proud o
of ashamed to have these copies be
a tween your lips?
The Bible says we are to "abstai
~ from" (keep from) "all appearance
Sc Of evil,"-anything that looks lik
ed evil. We cannot be to careful
lis Would this not be good place
ur practice what that verse teaches
ry Now, little folk, If you believ
this, and we do not see how YOU ca
in help it, we want your help; "
IL. want you to become reformers. I
OF you know what a "refOrmer" IL
IT, Let US find out: A refOriner Is OF
he who makes, or helps to make, son
ne. change for the better. Roe, wou
III. not you like to be reformer, al
NOR you, Edith? Remember, If you he
I'd 4; to change something for the bett
nd in this world of ours, you will n
las only brighten and make better OF
ose er lives, but you will broadea 81
to brighten your own. Will you t
of it? But you want to know how y
lay can become reformers on the CAM
his cigarette question. You like cand
to Of course you do: almost all childr
ich like It, and some grown-up childr
the too, and that makes you all t
more ready to fight this evil tn
md has crept in and is trying to .
i'd your sweetmeats. Now you G
In become refOrmers In this wa
First, buy other candy in the pls
,ec- of these ugly cigarettes. "Wf
mo- good will that dO?' Why, by q
,as. by the grocer will not purchase
IN. cigarettes because he cannot 8
~ them, and, If he does not buy the
"'' the wholesale grocer or confetti,
er will not buy them, because
lese in turn, cannot sell them, and fin
md. ly the boxes will pile up in the mi
~, ufacturer's storerO0m and he Y
uy stop making cigarettes because
the cannot sell them, ann there will
d, none In the market to tempt III