The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-15
QUERY: WHERE MEN MAY SMOKE
BY Margaret e.
T HE argument for and against

7 HE argument for and against the
use of tobacco is ceaselessIy waged,
and will probably continue to cause
animated discussion for years to come.
From present appearances, smokers
kill not cease to smoke, nor win those
Eho disapprove their course cease to
demonstrate. Certainly there are valid
objections to be urged against the habit
When it is INDUCED to such excess by
h1en that it becomes their master and
they are its slaves. But there Will al
ways be a large number Of excellent
men who wilI practically agree with
the hero OF Kipling's lyric, who, hav-
Ing 10 choose between tobacco and his
sweetheart, summed the thing up terse-
~. III the lines:
"A woman is only a woman,
But good cigar IS a smoke
Nobody can commend such leYity as
this. Yet a man who Is fond of his
pipe and finds his afteT-dinneT cigar
favorable accompaniment to pleasant
thought, may be pardOnrd if he resents
the undisciplined nagging of the woman
WHO, without rhyme or reason, hates
the weed. No candid person can deny
that men get a good deal of innocent,
and to many of them innocuousl enjoy
ment from smoking, either in solitude
o. in companionship. The most bearish
and cruSty Of men grows affable and
optimistic when smoking the brand he
loves. =
1t would seem as if the matter were
one Of personal liberty and individual
decision, and while thousands of cler-
gymen, statesmen, scholars and worthy
members of society find respite from
toll and stimulant of thought in this
peculiarly masculine privilege, they
ought TO be let alone. Whatever Wo-
men may think, they need not always
disturb themselves to express an opin-
Ion with vigor and emphasis as they
generally do.
Where may man smoker Assum-
Ing him to be married man. and mas
ter in his own house, it is somewhat de-
pressing for him, at least, to forego the
pleasure of his cigar indoors and TO be
compelled TO don Overcoat and hat and
go out whenever he wishes a smoke 1
never see this proceeding without an
inward protest. The back porch and
the front garden walk are very well on
summer evenings. but when winter
winds blow a man should smoke in
doors if he chooses. This is not to say
that he should smoke in the drawing
room or the family living room against
the wishes of his wife 1t was the
hemely habit of Thomas Carlyle to sit
IN the kitchen and smoke up the CHM
ney, and ii is on record that he and
Iennyson once spent a long evening
sitting TRANQUILITY opposite each other.
on either side of the hearth, smoking
IN amicable proximity and never say
ing a word. Yet they felt that they had
been in harmonious spiritual converse
With US paterfamilias can hardly go
10 the kitchen and sit with the maids
While he smokes his after dinner pipe
If his wife is quite certain that a few
minutes airing Will not take the scent
OF his tobacco from her rugs and por-
Ileres, then let her provide him with A
pace OF his own. At whatever cost
within bounds, the good man of the
mouse should have his den. as much his
especial retreat and as sacred to his
retirement as her own room is To hts
WE BE IT noted that the room which
1ather and mother share in common in
lhe household is never his room. but
always hers The children come shout
ING In from school, and rush TO moth
er room, not to fathers. The most
1htln,->te friends of the lady of the
mousse are sometimes admitted there
but 1t never would occur to a man To
take even brother or a partner i'm
business into that feminine environ
man, if a punctilious eentIer,ar,
khocks at his wife's door when he finds
II closed, while she opens it and enters
Nhahnounced, If he happen to be in her
room when she is away
a man should have, / repeat. some
~ oI a pace IN the house to which he
may Withdraw whenever he likes and
Where ne may do as he pleases. The
professional man has this retreat IN
LIl2 oIllGe or the private room at home
"HeTe ne receives patient or client or
occasionally chats with men who dror
IN OF an evening. If the h,roupb or
township have some wrong TO be right
Cd ana neighbOr wants to talk the mat
Ter over with neighbor. the man who
mas a den possesses an advantage at
the moment over the man who has
none He has Il place to which he NAV
ask friend for an interview
smoking aside, it is very convenient
20 nave a place in the house where he
may keep a desk, and bOOksheIves
Where he may file papers recefDfs and
various documents, preserve 1ey,-sr.,-
per clippings. keep maps. Iexicons or
any literature that he personally af-
reefs here, too, the tyrant of good
housekeeping need not bear too heav-
lily or a man who likes to have his desk
in mat chronic disorder which is really
more orderly than the outsider sus-
poets. The only time. as thousands of
men VIII beaT me witness. when things
'tihiANN W Abullt- Is the time when mis-
lfess or maid has ventured TO clear I'D
desk and put il in what she erron-
eousIy supposes to be good order
In mans own den he may keen his
IlShlng tackle, guns. whatever c1Irios
ID pIeaseS him 10 collect. and such SOU
Nenlrs OF agreeable outings as are ant
10 accumulate when one has Travelled
/ nave seen mans den that was a
small museum. filed with Interesting
indian curiosiues brought from several
lramplng grounds east and west where
once the red men had their homes. If
man care nothing for any of these
pursuits, II viii still be an agreea BILE
thing for him 10 have a place where.
without annoying anyone else, he NAV
keep his old boots and shoes and hang
Up ms old hats and coats
When one thinks Of it, the averag &c
man has comparatively few privileges
IN ms own house. / am not abiding to
bachelors. who are, of course indie
pendent, sometimes almost princeIy i'm
very luxurious apartments. Though a
Dacheior apartment be ever so finely
appointed IL lacks the sweet atmos-
phere and the Eiadness of a true home
ne true home presuppOses wife and
children. Yet necessarily the larger.
part of the married mans life - SDov,,