The Progress., 1893-12-02
ANatter OF Smoke.

~, the fin de steele youth can
an incipient down on his lip and
'p u, the streets with loud smelling
.ar between his teeth, his self-assert-
~ ~ air SAYS to the public more plainly
words: Like Ingomar, | shall
'"a mt upconauered 'mong the gods"
Ca hut true, it is that our bows cul
TO had habits through the mistaken
'.;iof that they are making men and
bsroes of them selves.
The youth who smokes. chews, ano |
..n reach the hos-line in drinking beer
graduate in the ways of the world
ha is the admiration OF his fellows,
10 alas, know no better than he and
hIi,dlv. nav proudly, follow the leader
.bip of their championin wrong doing,
our bogs are running the pace that
ILLS and especially is this shown in
.ho tobacco habit. Legislatures have
n.ssed laws regulating the traffic il
.be deadly cigarette, the press has
,,orred. the voices of parents have
haep lifted to prohibit,-but opposition
.oe,ns 70 act a. a stimulant to the youth
ml nicotine fiend. Boys yet in knee
trousers smoke slyly at school, and
rouths of larger growth poison the
o,mospbere of their homes with un-
bealthful tobacco fumes. The rosy
skinned. clear-eyed, .bouyant-stepping
vouog man of the past is physical
rarity to-day-he has degenerated into
the wild-eyed. blue-lipped, nerve-disor-
dered specimen whose existence IS a
danger to posterity. With this slave
of.a-bad-habit, tobacco is digging the
crave. and death will do the rest. But
before his taking off, his example will
lead many youths to the evil that is his
doom.
Not infrequently we see a strong anC
supposedly healthy boy who is IA vic
tim of insomnia" Upon investigation
We learn that he sleeps himself ii
cigarettes at the rate of twenty o.
thirty a days it to be wondered tha
sleeplessness is his lot? Over wrough
nerves are the rock that will wrecl
the ship of manhood that is coming IL
10 him. The tobacco topper easily be
comes the twln-brother of the whiske
toper-vice, like misery, loves com
pany.
We have heard Of the case of youn
tobacco topper who could not abstal
from his mania even for the space OF
brief evening call, but made his pres
ence obnoxious to the ladies of tn
house By putting pipe vigorously du'
ing his visit. He used pipe because
was warranted not to kill quite as quic
as the cigarette. This youth shoul
have been invited to finish his smoE
in the stable and til an to pay his d
voirs in the parlor.
Legislatures may not be able to re-
ulate the tobacco evil in our boys, OF
bows may Lot have the determinatlC
to regulate themselves, but there Is
power behind the throne that wou
succeed where lawmakers and u
bows have failed. Let our young gil
discourage the habit in our youths,
them issue an ultimatum OF NO SMO
ING, and the check administered WI
tact and kindness would lead to who
some reforms.
Our boys would grow thoughttm
the error of their way-the rlght a
persuasive influence would eventual
bring about total abstinence from I
pernicious pipe or deadly clgaret
We do not want the manhood OF G
boys to vanish in smoke. The progr'
of the age is in favor of purifying
atmosphere. Smokeless powder
been invented for military uses, ana
cities appliances are employed to dis
pate the smoke of factories.
What society needs to accomplish u
is the means of securing race
smokeless boys.
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