The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-04-24
WEDNESDAY, APRIL "a, 1901
THE USE OF TOBACCO.

the use of tobacco, and the discussion
thus started has brought forth many
other letters on the subject from the
Suns readers. These letters dis
close a wide wide difference Of opin-
ion among persons of both sexes re-
garding the use of the weed, and the
opinions are in all cases interesting
and often amusing. Most of the let
tiers are from women, ana one writes
as follows:
A mans gratitude when he nnds his
pipe cleansed or his tobacco pouch re-
plenished with his favorite "baccy" is
something touching. Make the ex-
pertinent We wives who find your mates
cold and unsympathetic. 1t is such a
small expenditure for the returns.
1t seems to me that we women are too
prone to want all of a mans entity.
The sooner we bow gracefully to the
cold hard fact that the human male
mind has natural and wholesome crav-
ings outside ourselves, be we ever so
beautiful or charming, the better it
will be for the race.
Then there is a man who tells his
experience, which by the way, is not
likely to be envied, by the majority
of his fellows. He says:
Letters in the Sun showing that
there are wives and sweethearts who
do not object to have men about them
smoking lead me to say that my wife
often has taken the first fifteen or
twenty puffs from my cigar or pipe;
also friend of mine has a sweetheart
who invariably lights his cigar for
him, remarking after each puff. my,
but that's good" And the smack of
her lips indicate that she means it.
There is no time when husband and
wife seem more like chums than of an
evening when before fire place they
enjoy smoke together.
1t is probably still a long call to the
time when the average man will well
come the quality of "chumminess"
which includes the feminine members
of his household in the smoke habit.
However much he may defend the
habit himself, or however much he
may enjoy his pipe or cigar, he is
likely to prefer that his wife, daughter
or sister seek solace for unstrung
nerves through other channels than
that afforded by Our Lady Nicotine.
Another man excuses the tobacco hab
it because, he says:
| do not think the ladies have any
right to complain of smokers as long
as they indulge in the sinking habit
of wearing perfumed clothing, not tt
the annoyance of persons near them
but to the annoyance of whole car
fuls of men. Phew! You can smell
some of them half block away.
Another man quotes Charley Kings
ley in defense of the weed, as fol
lows:
For when all things were mad,
none was made better than this to b.
lone mans companion, a bachelor
friend. and hungry mans food,
sad mans cordial, wakeful man
sleep, and chilly mans fire sir
while for stanching of wounds, purg
ing of rheum, and settling of the stom
ach, there's no herb like it under tn
canopy of heaven
And to prove that the use of tobat
co is largely matter of nativity, al
other correspondent of the male pei
suasion makes the following plaintiv
protest:
My paternal grandmother, who i
very old and lives with me, is natiy
OF Connecticut, and she has alway
smoked a pipe. My mother is Mi
sourian and she also smokes a pipe
My wife is Russian, and smoke
cigarettes, as does my sister-in-law,
Cuban. My daughter is an artis
and she has lately tal<en up smoking
l hate tobacco in any form, and
grandma and mamma and my siste
in-law and my wife and my daughts
are led to stop smoking by the Sun
letters I shall be happy man.
Still another correspondent rid
cules the feminine DIRECTORS to toba
co on the grounds of inconsistent
and proceeds to state his case aft,
this fashion:
One could have patience with I