Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-01-27
APossible Coloouy.
Written for the INDEX by members OF the
Medicine Lodge W. @ T. u

A Possible COloquy.
Medicine Lodge W. T.U.l
Mrs. A. calls on Mrs B., Miss lille
Mrs. BPS daughter. being present.
Mrs. A.-"Good morning, dear friend:
and Miss Lille. how-dy do?"
Mrs. B.-"Good morning; take of
your wraps and stay awhile.n
Mrs. A.-"No. thank you; I am on
my way down town, and l assure you
it is torture to me to go down street and
in our stores"
Mrs. B.-"Why, what dire pestilence
is raging in Medicine Lodge. that such
should be the case?'
Mrs. A.-"You may well call it dire
pestilence; it is nothing more nor less
than she smell and the smoke OF poison
Gus tobacco that you see coming from
the mouths and nostrils of almost every
man you meet"
Mrs. BIZ had not noticed 1t till
you spoke of it; but never knew SO
much tobacco to be used elsewhere as
is used in Medicine Lodge. know Mr..
b. is quite a slave to the habit. have
always disliked the smell, but am not
so sensitive now as when we we're first
married. AS Pope says:
Sin is a monster OF such frightful mien
| That to be hated needs but to be seen;
| But seen too oft. familiar with its face,
We FIRST endure. then pity. then embrace.
Mrs. A.-'That is true; the lnsidi-
BUSINESS of the tobacco habit is what
makes 1t 80 dangerous
Miss Llllie-"Beg pardon. Mrs. A.
but what is the meaning of that word,
'insidiousness2'"
Mrs. At comes from a Latin
word very like it, and means to insnare,
or treacherously to deceive"
Miss Lillie.-''I now see how appro-
pirate the word is. for gentlemen imag
inc the use of tobacco pleasure and a
comfort, when really it is their enemy
Mrs. Al think the use of tobacco
has always been hurtful, but l have
never known of so poisonous a quality
as is being used by our gentlemen. AL
though dislike it, l have lived where
it was raised, and am something of a
| judge of il from the SMELL"
Mrs. BLOW do the manufacture
ers adulterate it, do you suppose?"
Mrs. Al know, from reliable au-
thorities, how some of it is prepared for
cigarettes and cheap quality of cigars.
| The manufacturers of these employ
boys, men, or whoever will. to go around
hotels, saloons and such like places, and
gather from spittoons and cutters the
stumps of cigars. or the remains OF the
chewings, and with this vile poison they
mix drugs, opium mostly, and no telling
what else. They cut this up fine and
use it for the cigarettes and the centres
of cigars"
| Miss Lillie.-''Oughl Mrs. A, is il
possiblep Do the smokers know this;
and is there no remedy? IshaIl tell my
gentlemen friends and try and induce
them tn quit altogether"
Mrs. B.-''I hope you will, my daugh-
ter. l was mortified to hear Miss Hell
en- Bolt tell Mr.. Veins that she liked
the perfume of a cigar / should have
disliked to confess such bad taste; but
then. poor, thoughtless girls do not
weigh their words as we older women
do"
Mrs. A-'Several times it has been
my misfortune to wait in the post-office
for my mail. Every time went home
with a headache. never lived where
smoking was allowed in post-office.
It is positively against the law"
Miss Lillie.--''I dread to go in there
for the whole room is saturated with
the rankest smell, and it must be that
horrid tobacco. Do you suppose MIR
| Axline knows that the law forbids it!
Mamma, you tell him; 1 shall tell his
clerk the next time he calls, and that
will not be- many evenings distant. ]
never see any one smoking back in the
office. l should think 1t would make
the lady clerk sick IN there
| Mrs. BIT is possible Mr.. Axline
has not thought. of this. 1t is won.
der that our w. G. T. U. has not spoken
of this in their meetings. It ought to
be seen to as sanitary measure al
least"
Miss Lillie.-''I have a dear gentle.
man friend (blushing) whose society
used to prize so much, but lately be
brings with him such disagreeable un.
nameable smell, which must be caused
by smoking cigarettes. 1 wish could
speak to him without offending his feel
ings. He certainly is true gentleman
but this is q serious fault OF his and
very disagreeable to me, l must con.
fess."
Mrs. B.-"Mrs. A, what do you think
of ministers using tobaccop"
Mrs. A.-''Chrlstians should initiate
Christ. Who could read his life and i'm.
agine him using tobaccop 1t is sps cies
Of intOxication; also it is a filthy habit
it de6les the man; our bodies are to be
fit TEMPLES for the indwelling of the
Holy Spirit; and the Bible says, Whose
defiles this temple, him will God de-
stroy.'"
Mrs B.-'I called on minister this
week and his study was filled with the
smoke of cigar that he was smoking. ,
Mrs. A.-"Oh, shame! Alas f! SO il
is. Our merchants, (of which, blythe
way, we have no inferior class), viii
come to wait on you and blow smell
in your face that ought to be declared g
nuisance in soap factory. But thes.
are straws which show which way tn.
wind blows. But must CO.,
Miss Lillie.-"Oh, dear Mrs. A.. d,
tell US what YOU mean; you look so yer,
wise. We girls will do anything reason
able to keep harm from our beaux.n
Mrs. A.-'.Sweet girl; l must 90
May call again on Friday and talk OF
this subject. But in the mean time b,
sure of this-there is q veritable per