Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-08-31
1890 REASONS WHY BOYS
SHOULD NOT sNOKE.

Boys let me give you q word
OF good advice, don't smoke.
There is no good sound reason
why you should, there are hun
dreds of reasons why you should
not. No man was ever healthier
wealthier or wires because he
smoked. The world owes bnt
little gratitude 10 the man who
introduced tobacco into common
use. Now listen 20 what four
very wise men have said on the
subject Sir Benjamin Brodie,
NJ ID. f r ) says "Boys, even
at the best schools, &c. the hab
it Of smoking, because they
think il manly and fashionable
to do so /; not unfrequently be
GAUGE they have the example
set them by their tutors; and
partly because their 10 no friend
ly voice 70 warn them as to the
special i'll consequencesto which
it may give rise, where the p o
cess of growth is MT yet CON-
pleted, aud the organs are not
yet fully developed
professor Parkes, VI n + r
s says "When a boy takes to
smoking he frequently becomes
pale, and he has an unhealthy
skin. Moreover, boys who
smoke much are less disposed
to bodily exertion. Smoking nv
terferes with appetite, inpairs
bodily activity, and in some way
must damage the circulation or
the composition of the blood"
DR.. b w Richardson. F K 8,
says: smoking tobacco. aud
the use of tobacco in every form
is a habit better not acquired,
aud when acquired, it is better
abandoned The young should
specially avoid the habit. 1t
gives q doubtful pleasure for q
certain penalty
Mr. John Ruskin says: 1t is
not easy TO estimate the demora
LIKING effect on the youth Of Eu-
rope of the cigar, i'm enabling
them to pass their time happily
In idleness"
But l said there were hun
dreds of reasons why BOYS
should not smoke. and I am go
iLg TO give you a few For one
thing boys hardly ever know
what they are smoking. don't
mean merely that what they are
smoking is dreadfulIy adulterr-
ated, though that il always the
case unless they pay a very high
price for their tobacco. or ci-
gars or cigarettes. and very Of
ten the case when they do
What | mean is that the money
spent in smoking might be spent
to much greater advantage. The
truth is. boys you are blowing
money or what money would
buy through your bps every
time you smoke pipe, or cigar
cite or cigar. Ill we're TO ask
a group of boys what they were
%smoling. one would say a pipe
another "A cigar, and another n
cigarette How these boys
would stare IL they were told
they were smoking horses and
buggies. and pianos and organs
and libraries of booksl And
yet snch is the case. Smokers
are literally blowing these things
into the air. Now to make
this plain let us suppose that
a boy smokes only one cigar
a day, and that that cigar only
costs FIVE cents. These very
moderate expenditures amount
to the sum of SiS.25 in the year
Now think how many really use
full things might be bought for
that sum. Every cent so smok-
ed becomes a reason why boys
should no. smoke. The boy
who smokes five cents a day
smokes away S9l25 in Ave years
and that amount would buy him
a splendid library of books. In
ten years he smokes SlS2.5O
aud that would buy him a horse
and buggy. And as we have
said every cent so squandered
is q reason against smoking /;
here are 1880 reasons against
the use Of the weed Bows think
on these things and don't smoke.
A good home ia the most roy
al birthplace of high ideals
Lake the presence Of the Sa-
vior with the man possessed OF
demons, it drives the evil spir.
its out OF ones life.
A good home bushes many
evil voices, and shelters from
manifold temptations to wrong.
IL MIXTURES the better ele
ments of human natures; il
avakens the nobler aspirations
OF the soul.
Placing a homeless child in a
home makes him the centre OF
loving interest, sssueres him
the inspiration of virturous ex-
ample. fortifies against Ignorance
and vice through wholesome
education. and grants him all
the safeguards of family life
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