The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-07-30
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ased to-" ventured the cigar dealer,
ringing up the thin young mans
nickel and relighting his own cigar.
mo, l DON'T" admitted his atten-
uated customer. Il don't patronize
none of these cigar and tobacco dumps
as much as l did. Fact is, I'm trying
to quit
The tobaccOnist laughed.
Trying to quit?' he repeated. Say,
| that's hit! Any old time you back
away from your little scent smoker
Ines want to know about it. What's
the matter with you-got heart dis
ease or something's"
The thin young man looked panied.
Il don't see where you get any
awful scream out of that" he pro-
| tested. Don't lots of fellows quit
smoking every year? What's the mat
wagon with Lucy Page CASTOR and
cutting it out for a while? l found
out that these cigars l was smoking
was beginning to hurt me-affected
my nerves so l couldn't sleep good at
night-so l says to myself, Chop!
That's the way it Isl
well, suppose you know your
own business" said the cigar dealer.
IF you think cigars is bad for you, l
don't blame you for cutting 'em out.
stuff about cigars affectin' anybody's'
heart. l think that's all bunk the
doctors put when a fellow gets nerv-
GUS. They've got to blame it on some
thing and the cigars is the goat. How
are you gettin' along with the quit
TIM"
"Ch, pretty fair" said the thin
young man, rather doubtfully. 1T
come easier now than it did at first.
You see, l got where l was putin
away eight or ten of these blonde
Wisconsin perfectos every day-had to
have a few every evenin' after sup
per. Well, began by cuttin' them
down to one after each meal and an
extra smoke just before bedtime. /
found l could do that, all right"
"Sure!" said the tobacconist. All
it takes is system and little nerve"
I'm there with the nerve, all right"
admitted the victim of the tobacco
habit. The only trouble l had was
from my friends wantin' to stake me
to cigars downtown when I'd meet
'em-you know how it is. l didn't
want to be eXplainin' to everybody
that 1 was quittin' and havin' to stand
for lot of kiddin' about it, so l fell
for an extra smoke now and them
That pretty near brought you up
to your average, didn't it," asked
the cigar man.
mo, l don't figure that it did,"
said the thin customer, but l began
to feel lot better just as soon as
quit mean cut down on my cigars.
l cut out my smoke after breakfast
for a week or so, but l found that
wouldn't do-things didn't agree with
me. Then l quit smokin' at the noon
hour and that worked all right, but
got to hittin' up two after supper
again. l tell you, it's no cinch tryin'
to overcome a habit like that-but l
did it,"
That's right" said the cigar man
admiringly. IF they was all like you,
us fellows would go out of business in
hurry! How many are you smokin'
day now?"
"Of course, it's like anything else"
hn
estly. when a fellow makes up his
mind to it, if he has any sand at all,
why, he can put it over. l just says
to myself: This here smokin' thing
is putin me to the bad and l got
to go easy Oh it. I'm nobody's fool,
you know, takin' a chance on gettin'
my heart all out of whack, or some
thin like that, for the sake of few
bum cigars; l should say mott"
The tObaccOniSt lighted a fresh one
and offered the box to the seIf-sacritic-
ing young man.
Have one on me- he suggested.
That is, if you haven't gone over
your limit to-day. Don't let me tempt
you, you know he added How
many a day have you got it down to
now"
The thin young man accepted the
proffered cigar and coughed refiec-
lively.
We'll" he said finally, Il just take
one-one, mind you-after each meal
and once in a while l slip up and have
an extra one in the evening-like
now But not often, though he add
ed.
you've got it beat, all right" COM
mented the cigar man.-Chicago Daily
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