Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-16
JoBSON SWEARS

A little while before the redyhs hour
Saturday night last Mr.. Jobson Game upon
q reprinted article In The Star which told
OF the evil results following the use of TO-
bacco In any form. He was ready to accept
the antf-tobacco article al dogma Most
folks are in state OF mind to consider
abandoning their vices when they are sa-
| tiated with them. Since dinner time Mr..
| Jobson had smoked three cigars and pipes
| ad lib. Consequently. Just before turning
| in time he was tired Of tobacco. His tongue
| was q bit sore from the pipe smoking. He
felt surcharged with nicotine. Therefore
| the article-telling Of the injurious effects of
| tobacco impressed him deeply.
mo use in talking" he commented, with
Mrs. Jobson as audience, these scientific
ducks that write for newspapers nowadays
quite frequently know what they're talking
about. Here's a fellow that tells about
what curse tobacco Is to the world, and.
tell you what, it makes burned alarming
reading to a man who uses the weed to ex-
cess, as do
Mrs. Jobson felt that 1t was coming, and
| she dreaded It. She had known Mr.. Jobson
to stop smoking "for all time" on several
previous occasions, and she well remem.
bered what q gloomy establishment. their
had never stopped for more than twelve
hours al q stretch, but a whole lot can be
| done in the way of making home not worth
| while IN the progress OF twelve waking
hours
Yep" went on Mr. Jobson, plainly In the
, throes Of a great awakening on the tobacco
question. ''the man who goes right on smok-
Ing, when he knows that smoking is knock
ing the daylights out of his health, ought
! to be In a straiuacket. You don't see any
animal doing anything that hurts Its health,
do your Not much! Human beings are the
only fa,ro En- ap1iI liar falxy
try to drive themselves to early graves by
necessary habits
Mrs. Jobson had no comment to make.
Its a slow poison that's all. this smok-
ing gag" went on Mr.. Jobson. That's the
cause OF my stomach trouble Of recent
years.. bet q hat. I've got q nerve.
ahead with cigar or a pipe in my face
keep my health?
Still Mrs. Jobson did not feel impelled to
converse.
TITS pure, automatic habit. anyhow" con-
tinued Mr.. Jobson, 30 full OF hts newly
formed resolution that he didn't notice her
silence. -t
There isn't the slightest necessity for a
mani to smoke. He just thinks there Is be-
cause he gets into ths habit. After a
while 1t becomes sort Of second nature to
street car when the theaters are letting
out"
Mrs. Jobson was uncoiiing her hair, but
she was not uncoiling any conversation.
I'VE all begin this smoking thing when
we are little more than children and don't
know what we are doing-don't know what
store OF lifelong misery and depression
we are laying up for ourselves" progressed
Mr.. JObson. Then, once we get into the
habit Of poisoning our systems with the
deadentng vapors of nicotine, we go right
ahead with 1t, because everybody else is
doing 1t and because, probably. we are not
informed as to the terrible results that
must inevitably follow the prolonged use
Of tobacco.
that. It's all tommyrot for a man to say
that it's hard for him to abandon any kind
Of habit that he knows is surely pushing
him to a premature six feet of earth. OF
active poison he imagines that the only
| way to keep on feeling normal is to keep
right on stufing himself with the poison,
but that's the view that weaklings take
of the matter. A man can cure himself
of the smoking habit by the mental sug-
gestion scheme. II by no other system. All
he's got to do every time he feels like he
stop and say to himself that he knows
tobacco is slowly but positively crunching
all of the vitality out Of him, and pres
emily, by keeping this up. he Will conceive
form"
Mrs. Jobson couldn't see that this was
the point where she was supposed to bulge
IT know that I've got all of the blamed
smoking that I ever want in mine"
perforated Mr.. Jobson. Il kloy when I've
to the END a. OF my set mel 90 hnsr
lately, too. Palpitation. It's jumping
around right now like as If it didn't have
any anchorage. Tobacco causes that I'm
through with the stuff. And it's not going
| to be any tapering-off job with me, either:
Tapering-off is a mean and Intellectual
straddle Of a thing. There's only one way
to quit smoking. or to quit doing anything
else. for that matter. that's injurious and
that is to just get your teeth down and
your jaw squared UP and to knock the bad
habit off once and forever. without COM
| promise, shufding or capitulation And
"And So" continued Mr.. Jobson, II de-
sire to announce to you. madam. that
you have seen me in the act Of taking
natural life. I'm done. I would not put a
cigar in my lips again for q million dol
lars, cash in hand. I've come to the part
ing OF the ways with that tobacco thing.
got a couple of boxes of cigars left, Mrs.
Jobson, and wish you'd take 'em out of
the house the arst thing in the morning.
You can give them to that brother of yours
on the Hill If you want to. II he's asinine
enough to want to go ahead deadening his
faculties and rotting his vitals by using
tobacco he can have 1t, and he's welcome
to my cigars. And there's about a pound
80
You can give that to the ashman when he
comes around in the morning. AS for my
pipes, do whatever you please with 'em.
Tie EN- up with cherry ribbons and
stick 'em in an ornamental rack, or give
EN- to the grocery porter. or chuck EN-
out in the snow, If you like. Any way
suits me. I'm through with tobacco for
all time. I'm no hog. as say. I know
when I've got enough"
But" Mrs. Jobson finally ventured.
don't you think that after having been
used to your smoking for SO many years
you will really suffer and do yourself
more harm than good If you stop off sud
denly now and
mo, madam, don't think anything of
the Sort" growled Mr.. Jobson. II can
readily understand why you are SO dead
willing to have me go right on smoking
myself into an early grave, but IL you
think you're going to bamboozle me into
the continuance of a grisly habit just for
the furtherance of your own schemes
you're smoking yourself, Mrs. Jobson:
that's all I've got to say, and the sooner
you tumble to 1t the better.
MIR. Jobson seemed pretty clipper when
he woke up the next m0rning-Sunday
morning-and whist1ed merrily while he
put on his clothes. Then, after a whop-
ping breakfast of sausage meat and eggs
and flannel cakes and three cups OF cof