Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-09-11

WuTuererS 10 americas one, whereas
we hold our own very well with Eu-
rope in this matter.
II is the same in Europe with Gig
arettes as 1t is with what is called the
European Sunday" The nations OF
Continental Europe get along well
with both, with no more disturbances
of the peace, no more violations of the
moral law, nor more crimes against
the person, than we have. Europe Is
no more stationary than we are In the
way of improving things, at least to
the extent of increasing organized eff
fort in that direction, and good deal
of this organized effort in Europe pro-
ceeds under the direct influence of the
cigarette. 1t is their way of using to-
bacco-the majority way-just as II IL
their way of observing Sunday; and
although both are different from our
way in these two respects, the peace
and decencies of life are as firmly and
successfully cherished there as they
are here.
To an American or an Englishman
who has been brought up to smoke to-
bacco in u pipe, the cigarette is an eff
Terminate and exasperating substitute.
Its combination of tobacco and paper
conveys, when burning, rank odor
which not only clings to the curtains,
but to all parts of the house which
are open, while as an ash-scattering
and fre-scattering contrivance. the
cigarette has no superior in the to-
bacco-consuming line. Cheap and
nasty would be u broad definition Of
the little mixed rolls, In comparison
with the fragrant and evanescent odor
of pure tobacco; and probably their
cheapness, together with the fact that
they can be smoked quickly without
waste. is the foundation stone of their
wide and increasing popularity.
But the Hartford Courant is able
nevertheless to find relation between
the cigarettes Geidel smoked and the
murder he committed. II should be
remembered that the Courant cir
culates largely among the tobacco
growing farmers of Connecticut.
The Courant says that the relation
between the cigarette and the murder
is not causative but indicative. For
la boy of his age to smoke cigarettes is
u bad sign, not because he smokes
cigarettes, but because he smokes to-
bacco. Tobacco Is u fine weed, and to
many wholesome weed, when prop
erly prepared, but 1t should not be
used by man or woman during the
years Of growth and immaturity. II
is not so much that the tobacco may
injure the body-although it may dc
SO in some cases. II is that the pre-
mature use of tobacco is tolerabiy
sure to pervert the mind.
Tobacco Is a mans comfort and
pleasure. But when u boy uses to-
bacco he imagines straightway that
he is man. and begins forthwith to
play that he is man. He is only q
boy after all. and his play that he is q
man is mere farce; but II is pretty
sure to spoil him all the same. Par.
ticularly Is this so when his social
environment is not very good, and his
initiative efforts run downward instead
of upward. He Is only a boy In fact
with no balance wheel acquired b,
experience, with no real knowledge
worth speaking of. and with not mucl
more discriminative powers than thOs,
: of u puppy. But he swells himself NJ
r with his fifteen orr twenty years. HI
3 uses tobacco and swears like thos'
models whom he has chosen to fol
low, and unless he has remarkabl,
luck he is well-nigh bound to max,
. a mistake In this or that direction. ]
is not really the tobacco that does al
this, but the premature effort of tn,
: boy to be man.
Probably there are many stree
boys ranging up to twenty years o
age who know more of life-of thu
ways Of men when they are packed to
gether In close quarters--than Georg,
Washington did when he took com
mand of the armies of what is now tn,
United States. This is fast age. II
Boston they are breeding boys to d.
the hardest work of the ripest men al
most before they reach their teens
American children ripen early In re
spect to self-assurance and self-con
fdence. 1t is not their habit to b,
abashed or to lose their nerve. The.
get themselves into equality with thei
parents at very early age. Thes
youngsters are of good stun, and pos
sess qualities that go to the making
OF capable and trustworthy men. Blu
they are boys after all, and, like colt
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