Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1916-06-18
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49, ial yapor which curis up
ward from their pipes and
cigars. says the ST. Louis Post-Dis-
patch: but none OF them could have
more fascination than the quaint and
curious lore upon the subject of the
weed which has been compiled by an
English writer. G. L. Apperson. and
published under the inviting title OF
The Social History OF Smoking"
Everyone knows that tobacco was
one OF the gifts of the New World to
the Old. and that Sir Walter Raleigh
made smoking fashionable in England
IN the days Of Queen Elizabeth. For
the next so years the smoking OF pipes
not only became general among all
classes. but thing OF highest fashion.
held IL .he Ugh: 9. =: go: y those
days 1t was not said that a man smoked
tobacco, but that he drank or
sucked" tobacco; and the smoker
was called a 'tobacconist." The gal
liant OF those days had no hesitation
about smoking in the presence Of
women. and a character in Chapman 5
play. An Fools praises himself as
different from others:
And for discourse in my fair mis-
tress' presence.
| did not. as your barren gallants DO,
Fiji my discourses up drinking tobac,
CO."
One OF the strangest things about
Shakespeare works, says the author.
is the fact that nowhere does he men
sion Is drawn that Shakespeare did
not smoke. His contemporaries. Spen.
Ger and Pen Jorson are different,
Spencer invoked the plant as "Sov-
eraigne weede. divine tobacco" and
from Jonson's comedies can be gath
bacco drinking" as one OF the most
important social phenomena OF the
age. He reveals that 4 singular fea.
ture OF the enthusiasm for tobacco
in the early years OF the seventeenth
century was the existence OF pro,
fessors of the art" of smoking.
The tobacco sellers were mostly
apothecaries and some OF these took
pupils and taught them the sights,
as tricks with the pipe were called.
These included inhaling. and sending
out the smoke IN globes. rings. and SO
forth Shift. professor of the art in
Jonson's Every Man Out of His Hu
NOR" puts up a bill in st. PauIs in
/ which he offers to teach any young
gentleman newly come into his in
heritance ito entertain the most gen
tlemanlike use OF tobacco, as first. &c
give Il the most exquisite perfume
then to know all the delicate sweet
| forms for the assumption OF II; as
also the rare corollary and practice Of
the Cuban ebolition. euripus and Whit
which he shall receive. or take in here
at London and eyaporate az Cxbridge
or farther. If it please him"
Taking the whif," says the author
/ may have been either a swallowing
7 OF the smoke. or a retaining il in the
I throat for a given space OF time; but
what he meant by Cuban ebOlition
or euripus' is perhaps best left *
I the imagination"
I !; one contemporary writer may bt
believed, some Of these ca:Iy instruc
/ tors in smoking professed to be able
: 20 teach the secret Of emitting smoke
rot only from the nose but from the
ears: but a healthy skepticism is per
mitted here
There is a tradition that Queer
I Elizabeth herself once smOked-witt
unpleasant results. Campbell, in hi!
History of Virginia" says thai
Raleigh having offered her majesty
some tobacco to smoke. after two
[ or three whifTs she was seized will
nausea, upon observing which some o
/ the earl of L.eiscester's faction whis
| pered that Sir Walter had certainly
poisoned her. But her majesty. IN &
tess OF Nottingham and all her maid!
smoke a whole pipe out among them.
/ The queen evidently had no desir;
to monopolize the novel sensation
caused by smoking. An old writer
in Life OF Raleigh" says that tobac
! co soon became OF such vogue IL
/ Queen Elizabeth's court that some o
the great ladies', as well as nobIemer
| therein would not scruple sometime:
to take a pipe very sociably."
Many royal ladies OF our time have
had the reputation OF being confirmed
smokers, says Apperson. Among then
may be mentioned Carmen sylvia
dowager queen Of Roumania, the Dow
ager Tzarina of Russia. the late En-