Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-06-04

mystery TO 1nuuce cOHSluerdDle SpeCuld-
ton.
My Lady Nicotine's influence is not
always soothing. Like all great per-
sonages she has made enemies. Men
began to fight Over her a long, long
while ago, and only the other day the
newspapers told of the first of pos
sible recurrence of the night raiders
outrages in Kentucky. Urban VIII and
Innocent XI Illuminated against her.
Sultan Amuret " decreed death by tor
ture to her devotees. James 1 of Eng
land issued his "Counterblaste to To
bacco," in which he denounced her as
a creature of the "pit that is bottom
less" Lucy Page CASTOR CT Anti-Ciga
rette League of America fame is sus-
pected of a desire to shy her bonnet
into the presidential ring. Low on the
horizon, no bigger than q woman's
hand, is a cloud which rumbles 'to-
bacco next"
Possibly some of My Lady Nicotine's
famous devotees have loved her for
the enemies she has made. Anyway,
Spenser wrote of her as divine" BY
ron said sublime" Lamb declared his
affection thus:
For thy sake, tobacco,
Would do anything but die.
Bulwer-Lytton wrote this: "The man
who smokes thinks like sage and acts
like Samaritan" Kipling profoundly
reflects that "a woman is only a wom-
an, but a good cigar is a smoke"
Mark Twain suspects that the man who
doesn't smoke loses ian appalling ag-
gregate Of happiness.
This sort of worshiper clings to the
heresy that this is a pretty good old
world after all. He isn't worrying
about spirit manifestations and is not
concerned over the doctrine of the sub
liminal soul. He suspects Lucy Page
CASTOR of being a spiritual descendant
of the Puritans who condemned bear
batting not so much because it gave
pain to the bear as because it gave
| pleasure to the spectators.
'When doctors disagree who shall
decide?" The doctors are as divided
as are the literary lights. Some see
in her a veritable plague to humanity
Others maintain that she is rather q
benefactor. OF course most physicians
hold that smoking is bad for young
and growing specimens of the human
species. And probably most of then
are not prepared to advise that women
should smoke. And there are certainly
some men who cannot smoke without
Ill effects-just as there are men who
cannot eat strawberries or drink coffee
without harm. A cold bath in the
morning is meat and drink to some
men; it would put others under the
sod in short order. Probably the ma
jority Of up-to-date medical men Gr,
of the opinion that it has yet to bt
proved that smoking in moderation
hurts any normal man.
At one extreme of human judgmen
is that of the man who wrote that
nation which smokes tobacco perishes
At the other is that of the man wht
predicted in 1918 that America woul,
| Will lllC wal DCNduSc IL WAS luG uodV
lest smoker of all the nations.
My Lady Nicotine needs no pres
agent and has 10 trouble about break
ing into print. Some enthusiastic col
iectors of "Nicotania" have who'll
libraries about her. There is one
George Arents, Jr., of New York
who is the proud possessor of NOR
than $500 books, booklets and pam
phlets devoted wholly or in part t
her. These libraries tell pretty muc
everything about the lady.
No European ever heard of tobacc
until the first week of November, 149:
The commonly accepted version of th
story is that two sailors sent by CC
lumbus to explore the island which h
named San Salvador returned with
tale of natives who carried firebrand