The Wilmington daily Republican., 1902-01-03
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FaAoss Mea and WomsA who Were
Partial to the Use Of
Tobacco.

the intellect has been exhaustively
discussed by physicians and others,
and the position taken by some that
1T is absurd to allege that smoking
is stupefying to the faculties seems
to be fortified by mass of evidence,
and in this connection it may not
be aniss to consider some admitted
ly great literary minds, says the De-
troit Free Press. Goethe hated to-
bacco and Heinrich Heine shared the
same dislike. Balzac, Victor Hugo
! and Dumas did not smoke, but Al
fred de Musset, Eugene Sue, Nine.
t"George Sand" Merimee, and Paul
de Saint Victor were ardent users
of the weed. Spencer in the Fairy
Queen calls it divine tobacco" Will
liam Lilly, Queen Elizabeth's court
poet, speaks Of the holy herb Nico-
tian5a Byron's name for it is Sub
lime tobacco" Thackeray sings;
meanwhile will smoke every canis-
ter and tipple my ale in the shade"
Thomas Bailey Aldrich says: 81
lounge and blow white rings o.
! smoke
James Russell Lowell had write.
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-
bacco, | would do anything but die
Delightful Charles Kingsley's eulo
GUM 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 | have
my cigar"
Lord TennyEon was an invcterate
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,
I'VE have ha'en a graund nicht. Come
back again soon" Carlyle, like Ten
nyson, did not care for a cigar. but
kept pipe in his mouth most of his
waking hours, and Thackeray. like
Burns, loved TO get away by himself
and enjoy the flavor of Il rank pipe
James Payn, the novelist, cannot
remember the time when he did not
smoke. Mark Twain at the age of
80 used to smoke 300 cigars Il month.
George Augustus Sala bears en-
phartc testimony in favor of smok-
ing. The allegation" he says, "as
to smoking stupefying mans fac
nl'ies, or bunting his energy, take
TO be mainly nonsense
Oliver Wendell Holmes says of the
meerschaum: "lIe who inhales its
Napors takes a thousand whiffs in
a single breath: and one cannot touch
it without awakening the old joys
that hang around il. as the smell of
flowers rlings to the dresses of the
daughters of the house of Farina."
1t has been said that James Russell
Lowell used a humber of ordinary
pipes in succession and lay each
aside after it had been fairly well
down. Later he would gath
er the "dott"is, or, as some smokers
call them, the "heels,' from some
half dozen OF these pipes and cram
them into an enormous tube and have
Il real smoke, as he expressed it.
Another distinguished Harvard pro-
lrSSor once "sworc off, for six
months and kept strictly TO his self
imposed obligation. lie remarked, at
I he end of the time. when he resumed |
smoking, that his appetite had been
good. he had Slep, well and his health |
generally had not suffered. "but," he |
said, u lost six months Of happiness"
aud ever afterwards he smoked like
4 chimney.
Both Carlyle and Tcnnyson smoked |
pipes and rcnnyson's writing den
was supplied with two boxes, on
With a supply Of new "church war
lcns' and the other to receive the
broken fragments of.Ihc onrc-smoked
'ipes. for he never used the same
'ne twice, although an inccssant
smoker
Harriet Martinrau used TO smoke
'lg cigars on II back stuop with
Wordsworth "in the cleaning" of the
ainouS Lake district" Of England.
Dickens both "snuffcd' and smoked.
md Nine. %ilavatSky. the author of
Iris tn'eilcd' and he high prirstcss
II thc"s"plIy, was q verituhlc cigar
tie iiend.