The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-27
cUIDA's HEROES AND HERO
INES.

The 8. f. Argonaut Analyzss
Them From Scientific Point
Of View.
We frequently hear OF poetic Ii
cense. The license OF poets is ss
nothing to The license OF novelists.
Ouids's under Two Flags" drama
tizsh, is now running to crowded
houses in San Francisco. All of US,
wise aud foolish, have read Ouida's
novels, although all Of US have not
read all OF them. The wise ones
have often smiled at Ouida's heroes
those remarkable men who
carouse all night and then take a
tub" in the morning and appear
fresh aud strong; who drink pota-
tions pottle deep before breakfast,
and yet never get full before night.
In these degenerate days even
steady drinkers carefully refrain
from taking cocktails until just be-
fore dinner. The average man
knows that If he "gins up in the
morning." to use his own expression,
he will be dead TO the world" by
uightfall. In fact, it is common
thing among drinking men to indi-
cate the coming fall of brot her
by saying poor fellow, he takes
cocktails before breakfast now"
So with tobacco: most men prefer
to smoke Immediately after eating,
aud few smoke Immediately before.
But Ouida's heroes use tobacco 30
necessarily that they smoke by
"links of fire." as the Germans say.
Curiously enough, it does not seem
to affect their nerves. Many a
professional billiard player is a tee
Etotaler--not because he does not
like liquor, but because liquor does
not like him. He can not play with
the necessary skill the ,exacting
game of billiards unless his nerves
be steady--liquor unstrinss them.
So with tobacco; most professional
billiard players use it in moderation,
If they use it all. Not 40 with
!, Ou;da's heroes. ThAy all smoke
like chimneys; they all drink like
Falstatf; and they play billiards like
Deery, Vigpauxy aud last years
champion rolled INTO one. All sorts
OF dissipation seem only to steady
their nerves. Probably Ouida never
dreamed of how be degenerate
youth of today looks in the morn
, ing after hard night with a
:. cadaverous countanapce, trying with
!, shaking hand to shave himself while
he struggles to remember what hap.
pened during last nights debaucb
aud attempts to soothe his shudder
ing stomach and pneumogastric
, plexus with bromide of potassium
Some of Ouida's heroines are a.
little like to nature as her heroes
Cigarette, the heroine of the play
lust spoken Of, is said in the move
to have "a mouth like bud from ,
damask rose, even though steepeo
in wine, sullied with oaths, and scar
Q ed with smoke, aud which had uevel
II been touched with any Kiss hat wa
a innocent" This dsmask fosebuo
IS mouth is a good deal like the hero'
Is nerves. Any young woman who
a habitually drank tho bad "ittl'
is blue" wine that is served in Frencl
barracks would certainly have gas
tralgia and would ba troubled will
= acid eructations. In addition tt
y this, stepping herself in this or an.
y other kind OF wine in the hot Algeri
70 an climate would infallibly give he
- cirrhosis of the liver Thus sh
y would certainly havs bad breath
In addition to these slight draw
=, BACKS any one who has smoked tn
= French Government tobacco look
20 back on it with horror and loathipl
=, There is everything in it-even a
~ times tobacco. The odor OF thi
:. dreadful vegetable hanging upo
:" the damask mouth, and complieste
with the efuyium from the cirrho.i
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