Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-06-13
WERE FOND OF rHB WEED.
Famous Men and Women Who Were
Partial 20 the Use Of
Tobacco.


The effect of tobacco smoking upon
the intellect has been exhaustively
discussed by physicians aud others,
and the position taken by some that
It Is absurd to allegt that smoking
IS Supplying to the faculties seems
TO be fortified by mass Of evidence,
and in this connection II may not
be amiss to consider some admitted
" great literary minds, says the De
troit Free Press. Goethe hated to-
bacco and Heinrich Heine shared the
same dislike Balzac, Victor Huge
and Dumas did not smoke but AL
fred de Musset, Eugene Sue, Nine.
George Sand" Merimee and Paul
de Saint Victor were ardent users
| of the weed. Spencer IN the Fairy
Queen calls il "divine tobacco" Will
liam Lilly, Queen Elizabeth's court
poet, speaks of the ''holy herb Nico-
tian;" Byron's name for It is Sub
lime tobacco;" Thackeray sings!
Meanwhile / viii smoke every eanis-
ter and tipple my ale in the shade
Thomas Bailey Aldricb says; 81
lounge and blow white rings Of
| smoke"
James Russell Lowell had written
an ode of thanks to Charles Eliot
Norton "for certain cigars" and calls
| it tobacco. sacred herb" Charles
Lamb was willing "for thy sake, To-
baceo, I would do anything but die"
Delightful Charles Kingsley's eulo-
gium of smoking is well known and
has been largely quoted.
Tom Hood, of the "Song of the
Shirt" says: "some sigh for this
or that, my wishes don't go far. The
world may wag at will. SO l have
my cigar"
Lord Tennyson was an inveterate
smoker and so was Thomas Carlyle
The story of Tennyson calling on Car
lyle one evening and sitting in sol
emn silence smoking for hours is well
known. "Man Alfred" said Carlyle
as he showed the poet laureate out
1--WE have ha'en a graund nicht. Come
back again soon.' Carlyle, like Ten
nyson, did not care for cigar, but
. kept q pipe in his mouth most of hi.
waking hours, and Thackeray, like
Burns, loved to get away by himself
and enjoy the flavor of a rank pipe.
James Payn, the novelist, canno
remember the time when he did no
smoke. Mark Twain at the age o.
80 used to smoke 800 cigars a month
George Augustus Sala bears EN-
phatic testimony in favor of smols
ing. "The allegation" he says, "a
! to smoking stupefying mans fac
ulties, or bunting his energy, 1 TAX
to be mainly nonsense
3 Oliver Wendell Holmes says of tn
meerschaum: "He who inhales it
vapors takes thousand whiffs il
a single breath; and one cannot toucl
it without awakening the old joy
D that hang around it, as the smell o
flowers clings to the dresses of tn
daughters of the house of Farina."
1t has been said that James Russel
Lowell used a number of ordinar
pipes in succession and lay eac
e aside after it had been fairly we
$ smoked down Later he would gath
er the "dottels," or, as some smoker
call them, the "heels," from som
half dozen of these pipes and craI
$ them into an enormous tube and hav
j a real smOke,' as he expressed it.
Another distinguished Harvard pre-
fessor once "swore off" for 81
months and kept strictly to his sell
5 imposed obligation. He remarked, a
Q the end of the time, when he resume
smoking, that his appetite had bee
good, he had slept well and his healt
generally had not suffered, "but," h
n said, Il lost six months Of happiness,
and ever afterwards he smoked lii,
l. chimney.
o Both Carlyle and Tennyson smoke
e pipes, and Tennyson's writing de
, was supplied with two boxes, on
! with a supply of new Church wal
u dens" and the other to receive tn
e broken fragments of the once-smoke
10 pipes, for he never used the sam
d one twice, although an incessar
smoker.
Harriet Martineau used to smok
n big cigars on a back stoop wit
d Wordsworth ''in the cleaning" of tn
z. famous Lake district" of Englan,
Il Dickens both "snuffed" and smoke,
and Nine. Blavatsky, the author
Iris Unveiled" and the high priestes
of theosophy, was a veritable eiga
cite fend.