The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-05-10

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cOmmendahle enterprise in the crusade
against the use OF tobacco in the public
schools OF the city, Pamphlets explain.
ing the evils Of the habit have been
printed. and theses with the pledge
cards, will be distributed among the
boys and girls attending school, The
superintendent and the members OF the
board Of education have agreed TO CO.
operate with the ladies, and in this way
IL is hoped to inaugurate the reform
uoou substantial basis.
Although as rule boys DO not learn
the smoking, or cigarette habit, until
after th,ir school days, the incubation
hy the educa;ive process OF those prln-
ciples which are calculated to serve as
preventive in the formative period
Of youngsters life should assist him in
resisting the temptation when /, comes,
as II always does. In the middle teens
In othar words, having been taught
the svR effects Of the habit. and been
olelTed to abstSin for specific period,
he manly youth 10 made TO realise
in The art place rhs, physically and
mentally he 10 better without the weed.
and IN the second place, thar to yield.
or violate his promise. ls to Hacrihce his
personal honor
Seme one has said iha, the threaten
ing blight OF the future generations Of
this country is the cigarette habit. K
stuns the growth. sSps the vitality,
weakeus the action OF the heart. dulls
the memory clouds the brain, and in
duces epilepsy and various other forms
OF disease which frequently lead 10 in.
sanity. II the average youth would
take the pains TO read the reports Of
superintendents OF hospitals for the in
sane he would md that after opium and
morphine-even worse than the liquor
habit-the cigarette curse contributes
next in filling the ssylums It's victims
seldom recover. the records showing
that in many cases they lapse into tu-
berculoSis. and pass into the next world
emaciated and destroyed, physically and
mentally Such is the prospect that
faces every boy who tribes with the
seductive cigarette
It was the elder Charles A. Dana.
the eminent Journalist. now deceased
who once declared that THE man who
blew out his life in tobacco smoke was
an idiot" But Mr. Dana was notori- !
ouslv exrrsvagant in expression. ana few !
would agree with him that the most in
tellectual products Of the centuries were |
idiots" Nevertheless. there is no de- |
nying that the great men Of the past |
and present might have been still more |
illustrious. more useful ia their genera
tion. had they wasted less time AMI vi |
tality in the smoking room. The Old .
theory that smoking is good for dlges-
tlon has long been exploded. ami he
Dhvsician who would make this asser-
rion now would be regarded as a dis
grace 70 the profession. As a matter
Of fact smoking is the cause Of half the
Indigestion in the world
OF course it is a delightfully."- soothing
Dastime. one Of the genuine pleasures
Of life. Most men would rather i've
fewer years than struggle through the
Of hfe's battle without the
comfort and solace Of their PIPE or ci-
gar. But the young man who has new
ar experienced this life-sapping delight
will never miss it. Besides, NJ will be
4 better man, and Infinitely stronger
and wiser than the fellow "who blows
mt his liz In tobacco snnnkan -