Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-16
LOVERS oE"rHE WEED.e
Some Famous Writers Who were Fond of
Tobacco.

Tobacco.
Baltimore sun.
The effect OF tobacco smoking upon
the intellect has been exhaustiyely dis
oussed by physicians and Others, and
the position taken by some that it is
absurd to allege that smoking is stupe-
flying to the faculties esems to be foi til
fled by mass OF evidence. and in this
connection 1t may not be amiss to con :
slider some admittedly great literary
minds. Goethe hated tobacco and
Heinrich Heine shared the same dis
like. Balzao, Victor Hugo and Dumas
did not smoke, but Alfred de Musset,
Eugene Sue Mme George Sand, -
Merimee, and Paul de st. Victor were
ardent users of the weed. Spencer, in
1.-THE Fairy Queen, calls it divine
tobacco. " William Lilly, Queen Eliza
beth's court poet, speaks OF the holy
herb Niootian y Byrun s name for i is
Sublime tobaoco;" Thackeray sings
meanwhile will smoke every canister
and tipple my ale in the shade. =
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 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 il
tobacco, sacred herb. - Charles Lamb
was willing for thy sake, Tobacco,
would do anything but die" Delight
| full Charles Kingsley's eulogium Of
| smoking is we'll known and has been
largely quoted.
Tom Hood, of the "Song OF tha
Shirt" says; ''Soms sigh for this OF
that; my wishes don't 20 far The
world may wag at will, so have my
cigar.
Lord Tennyson was an inveterate
smoker and 80 was Thomas Carlyle.
The story of Tennyson calling On
Carlyle me evening and sitting il
solemn silence smoking for hours il
well known. MAN Alfred,'' sale
Carlyle, as he showed the Poe
Laureate out I'VE have ha'en graunI
nicht. Come back again soon y Car
lyle, like Tennyson, did not care for
cigar, but kept a pipe in his moutl
most OF his waking hours, ant
Thaokeray, like Barns, loved to ge
away by himself and enjoy the fiavo
OF "a rank pipe.
James payn, the novelist, canno
remember the time when he did no
smoke. Mark Twain at the age of 3
used 10 smoke 300 cigars a month
George Augustus Sala bears emphati
testimony in fayoi of smoking. 9Th
allegation /" he says, las to smoking
SIMPLIFYING a man g faculties or bluntin
mis- energy | take TO be mainly non
sense, y
Oliver Wendell Holmes SAYS of tn
meerschaum pine: He who inhaes it
yapors taxes a thousand whitTs in
single breath: and one cannot touch
without awakening the old Joys tina
! hang around it, as the smell of flower
olings to the dresses OF the daughter
I of the house OF Farina -
!, 1t has been said that James Russo
j Lowell used number of ordinary PHI {
D In succession ana lay each aside ait,
} it HAD been fairly we'll smoked dow
Liter he would gather the "dottels,
or. as some smokers call them, I'll
! "heels, - IRON some half dozen OF thel
. pipes and cram them into an enormol
! tube and have q ''rsal smoke, as
expressed it.
Another distinguished Harvard PR
fessur once ''swore OFF, for six mont
D and kept strictly to his self impose
0 obligation, lie remarked, at the CT
of the time, when he resumed smokin
9 that his appetite had been good,
lhtt SlSpb holl anu MS uehllH RbutThl
had not suffered, hut, . he said :
lost six months Of happiness, and ev
y afterward he smoked like chimney.
q Harriet Martineau used to smoke b
cigars on back stoop with Word
worth in the cleaning" OF the famo
y Lake district of England Dloke
y both ''snuifedn and smoked, and NJ
Blayatsky, the author of "lria U
Z. veilOd" and tine high pritstess
- theosophy, was veritable oigaret
" fiend