The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-09
TOBACCO CURE 4 DISMAL FAILURE
Trusting Young Wife Tries Doctor
ing Her Husbands Coffee.

1T will only be necessary for YOU 10
drop about half n teaspoonful OF the mix
ture into his cup Of coffee each morning"
the circular said 'and the taste for to-
hacco will gradually depar, from him. He
may not cease the use Of tobacco imme-
diately. but within a week he will begin
to abhor tobacco If the mixture Is given
to him faithfully every morning
And so the Young wife sent her little Sc
on and got a faeon OF the tobacco cure.
Pretty bum coffee this morning" he re-
marked dryly the first time she dropped
the half teaspoonful Of the mixture into
his cup.
IT'S the same as we've been using right
along" she replied craf.iiy.
Now. 10 and behold. re was pretty
smooth proposition himself. and he had.
unheknownst t. her. seen the package
holding the fiigon OF asin tobacco mixture
when It was delivered.
So after dinner that evening he pre-
duced large bulky package Of tinecut
from his pocket and took therefrom
plenteous chew OF tobacco. Il was the
first chew he had ever taken In her pres
ence and she marveled greatly thereat but
she determined to persist with the treat
rnent'
Dead rank chioory again this morn
ing, isn't it, he inquired al breakfast the
next morning.
replied.
That evening after dinner he produced
short. black clay pipe and package Of
a new kind OF tobacco tina: was as black
rs the ground work Of a Jolly Roger
Thought Ia bring this old dudeen up
from the office" he explained cheerfully.
'Its as sweet rs a nut
Whereupon he filed the house with the
aroma OF punk that was strong enough to
break rock
This grocery person who gets all Of my
wages is certainly doing us on the coffee
game" he remarked wher ne tasted his
cup the next morning.
Really" she said. gazing innocently at
the 1o-cent bunch O, as.ers In the middle
of the table. II can't detect any differ
ence'
don't believe that all women are act
resses" said he 70 himself on the way to
hts Office that morning.
That evening he brough. home a box ~
auction stcgies. and after he had smoked
ono q them after dinner all the people In
the neighboring fats stuHei cotton In tho
hall door keyhoIes and closed the hall
transcms.
II must perSst, though" thought his
baTlei little wife gloomily.
coffee tastes like a stewed gunnysack
again this morning" he remarked AT the
ncxt breakfast. She felt hit sorry for
him, bat she vas determined TO use up
that fiaEon 81 agin tobacco II she had 10
cflofoform him ana pour Il down his
throat.
That evening. however. her resolution
deserted her. After dinner. for the first
time 20 her knowledge he pulled ont a
package ~ cigarettes. IL one and began -
SIN Ike IT
She wen; upstairs poured out the re-
naming portion ~ her s. worth ~ ag.n
tobacco and carefully h.d the bottle,
"Cofee's all right this morning" said
he II breakfast he next day.
yes" she inquired abeeutly
When re had finished his dinner that
evening he sighted enc q his usual brand
~ good cigars
Men are mysterious "a ne" size thought
regarding him out ~ the tail - her eve.
Women only think they're foxy" he
thought. blowing heavy smoke rings Into
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