Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-26
HAPPY ENT


you fellows did -a4der similar circum-
stances" said the notwithstanding man.
that I'd never smoke another cigar with
out her consent from the day we were mar.
rfed. Had to tell her that, or she'd never
have consented to msfry me, for she comes,
you see, from one Of hese families that has
had minister seAi In 1t for about nine
hundred years. he pet aversion of the
whole outfit fo1 geserations has been to-
bacco in all it'd ferns-so that she came
legitimateiy by Her soreness on the nicotine
question, and thatS why she made this
Modes and-Persian law that, SO far as she
and I were condns1, it was to be a case
OF wife and nokmSke or smoke and no
wife. So, as Ny, II promised that from
the day we wer8 maIried I'd never smoke
another cigar. 1 put the accent on cigar,
Dut sne didn't notice It. Commencing to
she never knew before we were married
mat smoked anything but cigars and SO,
when | made this solemn promise about
ALnockthg or cigars after our marriage, she
tnoughe she had the whole situation
clinched Well, maybe l meant when I
InaGe ner that promise that 1 wouldn't
smoke at all any more after we were mar
IisuLanu tnen. again, maybe l didn't; for
uoh peiieVe was any more in the habit
theh OF burning bridges behind me than I
am now.
Anyhow. this no-cigar promise bothered
ne heap from the very day that we were
nade one and the law went into effect.
wanted a smoke mighty bad on the train
When we started OFF on the honeymoon, but
staVea on the desire, although I can't
put CONFESS that found lot of sneaking
satisfaction even then in the reflection that
II was cigars only that 1 had passed my
promise about During the three weeks
tnat we were away on the trip I'll gamble
tnat l yearned harder for a smoke about
nrxr " ato1,,
Tor mouthful of water-but didn't want
TO break In ON the otherwise happy situa-
tion, ana looked the other way when man
move IN sight smoking fine. big. fat cigar
.put the sort o Observation-Disclosures promise
that I had made on the Smoking question
began to float around in my head and
please me whole lot, all the same.
men we got back and went to house.
heeping our little shack looked so cheer
full and coy when T reached. home in the
evening that it just made me ache all
over Tor tobacco smoke and slathers of it.
II dIon somehow seem like the real thing
" mop into slippers and a house jacket
without having some sort of smoke ac-
commitment. But held In for more'n
week. although I'm bound to admit that
me line OF thinks I had coming during
ways. eo'N
Il got desperate the second week, and
says to myself. This has got to quit; if
l aon nave smoke within twenty-four
hours m goner, sure enough 1t may
pc nara on the girl at first, but I'm get
tihs 100 good for any use, anyhow and
~! I've oeen smoking too long to knock off
inns way. It's too much punishment And
II smoke won't be breaking any prom
Use. at that
SO the next day I gave up $40 for
Ineerscnaum pipe with bowl that held
something close onto a quart, got a couple
OF pounds of good tobacco put on the
incest apple-pie expression that I knew
now and pranced up home
fou ought to have seen the little wo-
mans countenance when 1 flashed those
smoking goods on her after dinner,
BUT your promise to me- she started
to say,
,,,o Does Does this stack O. stuff look anything
remark that l interrupted her with
Wen. say, of course 1 had the theo-
retical. legal technical right in the situa-
llon but felt good deal like a grave
robber, all the same But 1 intended to see
1t through. and SO I loaded I'D that pine
ana had a smoke that can feel out at the
ends OF my fingers yet, 1t was so kind of
Min Min as 1t were This was the opening
break, and. though the wounded-fawn look
IN the little woman'sreyes kind of haunted
me at first. 1 kept right on trying to get
that pipe as black as the ace of spades,
ana .hsa smoking a pound Of tobacco In about
three days in the attempt. Her grief
seemed to wear off some in about a week.
but the pipe began to wear on my nerves.
ana commenced to long for good cigar
ioNe, thouen didpt intend to go back
on my promise. I don't remember ever
having been SO pleased all over as was
when l started to light up the pipe one
evening, and the little woman flashed a box
OF cigars, and good cigars, too, on me, and
said: '''A
Jack, If you're bound to smoke. Won
might as well smoke cigars instead of that
horrid old pipe. that makes the curtains
ara eyeryt thing smell don't know howr
And I've been smoking my old brand of
cigars ever since. What's more. I went
away on business trip about three months
after was married. and what do you sun
pose she said to me when 1 got back? WHY.
she said:
Jack, you don't know how I've missed
your. old cigar smoke around the room
evenings"