Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-02-07
SHE USED TOBACCO
THE HORSE EDITOR is OF THE
OPINION THAT WOMEN SHOULD
NOT BE COMPELLED TO TAKE
TOBACCO SECOND HAND If
THEY REALLY WANT 1T.

| William Mccormick wants a di-
vorce from the partner of his bosom.
sharer of his Joys and sorrows, and
worst of all, which william objects
to, sharer of his chewing tobacco.
William in finicky, particular, and
really over-nice. He wants di-
vorce because his wife chews tobac-
co. He does not allege that she Is
any more slovenly or slobbery in her
chewing than the average male to-
baoco chewer, nor does he insinuate
that she cannot spit gracefully or ac-
curately He does not complain that
she misses the family spittoon,
squirts the dark brown saliva at the
stove, or splts in the woodbox like
a little man. In fact Williams COM
plant is against the habit itself.
Now to the horse editor this seems
dangerous precedent. What Is
sauce for the eander is sauce for the
goose, and likewise tobacco is as
sweet and cleanly and attractive in
one persons mouth as in another's.
II the fact that mans wife chews
tobacco Is sufficient ground for n
divorce. why isn't II a ground for
divorce when woman's husband
chews tobacco.
And II chewing tobacco is once
recognized as grounds for divorce,
where will hubby" get on. The
horse editor wots with a great big
wot, that hubby" will be up against
t.. and when "wifey" wants a new
seal collarette. or shoes with French
heels six inches high. or any little
old thing she takes a fancy to, its
come through. give up his tobacco, or
face the divorce courts.
OF course tobacco seems ont OF
place in a woman's mouth. and the
prettier the mouth the more shivery
II makes a fellow TO ses tobacco In
IT, Just fancy pretty feminine
mouth (not too small, for while
small mouths are pretty. the full
grown mouth with an upper lip like
oupid's bow and the lower just lit
tie bit shy about associatlng with Il.
and permitting a suggestion of two
rows OF pretty teeth; a strong mobile
mouth that's the kind that Is kiss
able over and over AGAIN. just fancy
that kind of a mouth with the to-
baeeo juice dribbling out of each
corner.
Pretty tough picture that. and ono
really sympathizes with william; but
still there is another side to the prop
ositlon. Imagine that same mouth
with lips like carnations allowing It.
self TO come In contact with a hus-
bands mouth, the latter filled with
tobacco, favored with beer and oderl-
ferrous OF seven other kinds of booze.
No William your case will not stand.
Far be II from the horse editor TO
commend the use OF tobacco by wom-
an-but still he can see no good rea-
son why. II she must put up with to-
baeco that she should be compelled
to get hers second hand.
Down IN Paraguay and that sec
tion OF South America the ladies
(God bless 'em) all use tobacco and
most of them chew. all OF them
smoke cigarettes and many smoke
big black stogas that are strong
enough TO kill a mule or anything
else except a Spanish woman. IL is
the habit there, If one is given
chaste salute by his best girl, for her
to gently insert her fore nnger and
thumb into her mouth and deposit
her quid on the rim OF her sweet
hearts sOmbrero. close TO the band,
where IL reposes safety until the os-
culatory proceeding are over. when
the dope Is popped back into the
senoFita's mouth. a trihe cold and
clammy from long exposure To the air
but still toOthsome. A Spanish wom-
an can smoke a cigarette 80 artlstieal-
4 ~ that IL really seems 10 be quite
the proper thing. but all the same II
makes here breath. smell like a mans
under the same conditions, that is.like
China junk shop when their NV
Year Is on. And then too il mus
be remembered that these Paraguay
ladies have not the red lips of the
ladies up this way Their lips are
brown and harmonic with the to-
baeeo juice.
But this Il a DEPRESSION something
the horse editor Is prone 70. AS a
matter OF fact II Mrs. Mccormack