The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-11-25

be through with the internal weed
| forever he always declares, whack-
ing his cane down on the counter. It's
all blamed foolishness, this smoking
business, when you begin to analyze
it, and I'm going to stop it. A man
that can't control such an idiotic ap-
petite as smoking hasn't got any
right to live. I'dquit right now and
not buy this box, but there are some
fellows visiting at my house and, of
course, I've got to smoke along with
them
"The fellows at his house was only
one of his thousand add one excuses.
"Of the men who really do make
the stab at quitting I should say that
about one in ten really sticks it out.
The nine others backslide sooner or
later.
When quit, one of them said
to me not long ago, i bully and hec-
tor and abuse my wife and children,
and impose upon my employees, and
go up and down town every day with
chip on my shoulder, waiting for
somebody to step on my toes SOS |
can take try at knocking his block
off, and am nuisance in general to
myself and to everybody else. Gimme
two boxes of my old brand, and
gimme EN- quick !"
II have actually had the wives of
several of my periodically quitting
customers drop in upon me here for
the purpose of asking me to try to
Jolly their husbands into beginning
to smoke again. They've told me
that their men folks were unendura-
bic around their homes without their
smokes, aud that there was no living
with the tohaccoless ones.
"I've got one good customer,
man who smokes both cigars and
pipes, who has got costly little way
of quitting every six months or so.
He gets bit of an attack of what is
known as liver complaint, when his
tobacco doesn't taste right to him,
and then, attributing it all to his
smoking, he promptly proceeds to
chuck all of his cigars and smoking
tobacco and pipes into the garbage
can.
"Now, that's pretty costly work
for him, for he pays $22 hundred
for his cigars, and he always buys
them in 500 lots. Moreover, he
always has seven fine pipes, none of
them costing less than $40, in his
rack, one of them for every day in
the week-as all pipe smokers ought
to have, by the way.
"Well, when the one smoke goes
wrong, into the can the whole tobacco
layout goes, and my good man bawls
at his wife that he's through with the
blasted imbecile habit Of smoking for
all time, in this life and the life to
come. I've known him to last all of
three days, during the past fifteen
years or so, at these tremendous quit
ting stunts of his.
During his quits he drops in upon
me with heavy scowls and browbeats
me for selling tobacco, which he calls
fiendish business that ought to be
extirpated by the police. Then,
when the hankering for tobacco has
got him reduced to a state of dish
rag wiltedness, he sort O. crawls in
upon me in a very humble kind Of
way and tries to tell me that he's had
a heart to heart talk with his medical
man, and that the physician has
sternly forbidden him to give up
smoking under any circumstances,
and then he orders a complete tobac-
CO layout, including his usual big
stock of cigars, and another set OF
pipes and smoking tobacco.
"He watches me carefully out Of
the corner of his eye to see if I'm
laughing at him, and at such times
it would be as much as his custom is
worth for me to crack even SEM
blance of a grin.
"Some men with the tobacco quit
ting hunch try to quit by tapering
off, but that scheme isn't of much ac-
count. The man on a reduced to-
bacco allowance is just about as
miserable as the fellow who's chuck
ed smoking altogether, and the chap
who finds that tobaccois really injur-
ing him ought to adopt the only
genuine way, and that is to quit abb
solutely, without any tapering OF or
fddling around.
"As a matter of straight fact, how
ever, lot of fellows get these tobac-
co quitting lunches who are not being
damaged by the tobacco habit at all.
Their ills proceed from other causes,
such as overeating and boiling their
food, especially their luncheons, and
overdrinking, too; and, when they
begin to lose their edge from these or
any other cause they promptly attri-
butte all of their mean feeling to to-
bacco and work themselves into a
hectic flush over the injuriousness oi
the weed. ."-New York Sun.