, 1912-10-26

bCANAOhS w AANoSS 0SOApA NSSO~ cAN S'
taste in the ~incipient votary-- and We must
but marvel the more. Truly it has oil the APP
pearance of O decree of Providence-irresis-
tible-an illustration of the dictRm that the
good and true must prevail against all OPP
position.
Statistics of no very old date, recorded IN
PENIS History Of Tobacco, show the worlds
acreage under the plant to be one thousand
millions, the annual value of the product
being fortv-fve millions sterling. The
revenue from duty in Great Britain is
stated to amount to eleven millions sterling.
In this connection it should be remembered
that we as a nation are by no means to be
accounted particularly heavy smokers. Our
average, for instance, is only one aud a half
pounds per head per annum, whereas the
Dutchman gets through seven pounds. But,
then, he easily beats creation III ibis respect.
To give the extreme illustration. It is record
ed of one Old sportsman-MyOheer van Klaes
by noma-that through his life he kept up
the astounding average of three pounds con
sumption q week, and therefore got through
four tons in his eraoking-life OF sixty years.
He lived 10 be eighty, and was evidently u
Jolly old dog, full of humour to the last, for
by his will his coffin had to be lined with old
cigar-boxes. 1t was e%nioined that a bladder
OF best golden lie #, with matches and flint
and steel handy, was to be placed by his side,
and the mOurners We're to smoke at The fune-
raj; then the last act of all-the solemn "dust
to dust and ashes to ashes, when al were to
knock the ashes from their pipes on the lid
of the coffin. SO passed this king of smok-
ers. A strange scene, and only to be ina
gined as possible in those times affectionate-
ly remembered as old and good!
Another notable votary was one of the
Bismarcks, who affected q cigar holder made
to hold three cigals--these of different
brands, making a subtle blend dear to his
palnte. He also lived till he was over eighty.
Then there was Seid!itz. the famous cavalry
leader, of whom it is recorded that he would
stick to his long pipe during all preliminary
mtneuvres III presence of the enemy, throw
ing it in the air only at the word to charge.
But it is not necessary to go to Germans
or Dutchmen for the romance of the subject.
Quite sufficient Of the quality is to be found
III English history. For it was in England,
indeed, that the smoking vogue first became
prevalent in the OLD World-all prevailing it
might we'll be called for in that first century
after the original in Introduction the smoking
habit seem, to have so taken hold of the peo-
pie, high and low, as to be more of the ma
ture of q fantastic craze than q mere univer-
sal indulgence; and it is my conviction cf the
ignorance of most people in tho matter which
has prompted the present article. How
many know, for instance, that there were re-
gnlar professors of the art in those days, men
who would teach you to smoke fast or slow,
to emit the smoke through the nose, to IN
hale and swallow, etc that this art Of inhal-
ing too, was carried to such an extent that
men would for wagers engage to inhale the
smoke at one point, and not emit it until
some designated spot was reached perhaps u
mile away; that many other matches were
engaged in-fast and slow smoking, and the
like; that in the very schools children were
taught to smoke, being punished fol letting
their pipes go out. The P~uritans, as may
well be believed, were at first dead against
such an e~xtravagant, no to say, ungodly, prac-
tice, but ended by smoking in church. Nor
was it confined to men; women were e0nnl
participators, and, Us we have seen, the chill
dren were brought up in the way they should
(not) go. V~trieties i'll pipes soon became le-
gion, and there was actually a scheme
though this was probably of later date-to
provide smoke on tap, even as gas is supplied
to houses at the present day.
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