San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-25
ABOUT TOBACCO.
Written for the LIGHT. No. 3.


ing tobacco, throughout the world, Il
something really wonderful Two hund.
red and fifty years after its discovery in
America, II is smoked in almost every ma
tion in the world, by the TudeSt and the
most highly civilized nations on the globe
Those who smoke it, fancy they cannot dc
| without Its soothing but stimulating in
| tuence, and are miserable when they are
! deprived by circumstances, of their pipe
| or cigar. The rapid spread of the use of
tobacco may be accounted for upon the
ground that it filled long felt want OF
manKind-a Stimulant and q Sedatve OF
the nervous system, happily combined.
For luxurious smoking, to man who is
not pressed by the demands OF
oily indOlent md fond of his
Else, the Turk h ChibouQue, offe S
me highest enjoyment which can be en-
tracted from the act of smoking tobacco.
Clearly it was invented by lazy man, in
hit OF lazineSS, for the benefit and graft
| tication of other lazy men.
The AsiaticS are, by nature. both indo-
| RepoSe is fraught with positive delight to
| them. 1t may be the result of climatic
| influences upon the body of man, or of a
| habit so long INDUCED in by successive
| generations, as TO have ripped and mel
| lowed into heredity and been transmit
| ted from sire to SON." The Turks were
| of Asiatic origin, and of course, are i'm
| bued with all the Asiatic characteristics.
| love of Incidence repOSe and ease. With
| them, 10 be in hurry. is undlgnitied and
abSurd-and is sign that person is the
slave of his business and wanting in the
true philosophy of life. The Spaniard
and the Mexican resemble the ASiatic in
their love of Incidence, repoSe and ease
and they seldom smoke anything but the
cigarette, which one can smoke while
walking, riding, lying down, working, or
trouble. The cigarette was first invented
by. Spaniards and for years it was used
only by SpaniardS, Portugese's and Next
cans. The females of those nations, pretty
generally. smoked cigarettes with great
gusto, especially those in South America,
where it is part of the rites of hospitality
to hand around a bundle of cigarettes
soon after guest enters ones house. with
pan of Goals of fire with which TO light
them. 1t is certainly pleasant sort of
hospitality, and is calculated TO put
guest as his ease and TO render him cheer
fnl. OF recent years, the smoking of
cigarettes has been spreading and increaS-
ing in the southern states of the Union,
Indifference to the opinion of the doctors
that they are liable to produce cancer on
the lip,if there be anabrasion of the skin
The pipe is the favorite of country
people, working-men, sailors. soldiers.
and students. The Dutch smoke so much,
that one is tempted TO think they were
born with pipes in their mouths. Yet the
Dutch are famous for industry. perseyer-
ance, good humOr and cleanliness.
have read somewhere in my deSultory
way, that couple of centuries
ago, a capital case was never
turned over to a jury in Holland
hn in. no. nat
smoked pipe, so as to put them in a
good humor with themselves and all the
world.
Nine tenths of the authors of all nations
are smokers of tobacco. and mostly prefer
the pipe. Hobbies, the first of English
philosophers, was very fond of smoking.
and after eating his dinner had his can
die, his pipe and tobacco enough for
twenty pipes full, brought into the room,
smoking, thinking and writing for
several hours. Andrew jackson
was dear lover of the pipe and
was great smoker. Gen. Grant was sell
dom without cigar in his mouth in his
waking moments, and no doubt this ex-
cesSive smoking of cigars occasioned
the cancer OF the tongue from which he
died
When cigars were first made is not very
ITS, DR.. Samuel johnson said to Boswell.
our drinking less than our ancestors was
owing to the change from ale to wine. ]
remember, he said, when all the decent
people in Lichfeld got drunk every night.
and were not the less thought Of SmOk
ing has gone out, yet | cannot account
why a thing which requires so little eX-
ertion, and yet preserves the mind from
total vacuity, should have gone out"
In 1890 Croker said, "as an item in the
history of manners, 1t may be observed.
that drinking to excess has diminished
greatly in the memory of those who can
remember forty years ago. The taste for
smoking has revived, probably from the
military habits of Europe during the
and sedentary pipe. the ambulatOry Segar
is now chiefly used" En- PEASANT, the
English and the Americans for many
wears spelt cigars S-e-g-a-r-S.
In his poem of the Island" Byron has
this Stanza about smoking:
But here the herald of the self same
mouth,
Came breathing over The aromatic south.
Not like a bed Of viOletS on the gale,
But such as watts its cloud over grog or
ale.
Borne from a short frail pipe, which yet
had blown
Its gentle odOrS over either zone,
And pulled wherever winds rise or waters
roll
Had waited smoke from Portsmouth to
the pole,
Opposed Its vapOr as the lightning
flashed,
And reeked midst mountain pillows I'M
abaShed.
To AeluS constant sacrifice,
Through every change Of all the varying
skies
| And what was he who bore it? | may err,
But deem him sailor or philosopher.
| Sublime tobacco: which from east to
west,
Cheers the tar's labor. or the Tur mans
rest.
| Which ON the MOSlem,S ottoman divides.