Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-11
talk ON TOBACCO
Writer Discourses AmuSedly Con-
corning Filthy Weed
One Reason Why Cigarette Is Seldom
Seen in Old Mans Mouth
AS to Women Smokers.

TOBACCO Is Il Woou grown III d VAIN
climate and consigned to warmer
climate by persons who have not learn
ed to chew or smoke it. taste for
tobacco is acquired by males during
the adOescent, or foolish, period OF
life, Robert Quillen writes in the Sat
urday Evening Post. The small boy
desires to smoke for the same reason
that he desires whiskers and long
pants. These things are to him the
outward and visible evidence of man.
hood, and manhood is desirable be-
cause it makes an end of restraint.
He would be man, therefore ne
learns the vices of a man. 1t is
hard commentary on the nature of
mortals that boys covet the vices
rather than the virtues of their elders
and think of maturity in terms OF IL
cenSe.
Every mother knows that noise is
evidence of virtue. Quiet children are
engaged in mischief When the boys
Of neighbOrhoOd are playing together
out of doors and neither shout nor
laugh attests their innocence one may
assume that mischief is afOOt. If lit
tie Willie comes to the house an hour
later very white about the lips and a
little uncertain in his gait and con-
fesses a yearning to talk about heav-
en- one may assume that the mischief
had to do with first rendezvous with
Lady Nicotine.
The chewing of tobacco is more
prevalent in rural districts than in
cities. One who chews feels more at
ease is Wide-Open spaces, where 1t is
not difficult to dispose of the by-prod-
uct. Students of human misery know
little of their subject until they have
observed a confirmed chewer loaded
to capacity and held by convention
where no friendly receptacle invites
one to tighten cargo.
AS a rule tobacco chewers enjoy
good health, but one does not know
whether their physical well-being is
occasiOned by the tobacco or by the
necessity of remaining out of doors.
Smoking is more nearly universal
than chewing. Cigarettes are smoked
by boys, by young men and by women
One seldom sees a cigarette in the
mouth of an old man. 1t may be that
an old man knows better; or it may
be that one who smokes cigarettes
doesn't linger here long enough tC
b. become old.
A boy may smoke cigarettes without
becoming either a bandit or an idiot
but he can't smoke cigarettes anC
make the track team, nor can ne
smoke cigarettes and head his clas:
in mathematics. The harm done b,
cigarettes is frequently overstated
All prosecuting is prone to eXaggera
ton.
Until recent years women addicted
TO cigarettes were divided into TIVE
classes-those who had fallen so low
that the opinion of the majority oil
not interest them and those who ha
climbed so high that the opinion o
| the majority did not interest them.
Today smoking among women is no
| confined to a class or condition. IhOs
| who wish to smoke do so without az
| parent loss of caste. Doubtless it
| their right. Yet an old-fashiOned ma
Il
i habit is not general among WOme
who bear children. When | Observ
4 smartly tailored woman drawing so
II ace from a cigarette in the lobby c
II great hotel l am not conscious {
h aversion. But | do not believe tn;
II I could rise to equal tolerance If
4 should observe a sweet-faced wOma
in Bingham darning holes in children
II stockings and pausing occasionally II
u a deep pull at a cigarette.
II A pipe is pleasant company for Il
n one who furnishes the draft, but
n affords little pleasure to the innOcel
4 bystander. AS pity prompts US
\ espOuse the cause of one who h;
4 been cast out by society, so does o.
4 love for a pipe grow as others frOv
4 unon It and sniff their displeasui
The erring son holds the greater pa
of the mothers love; the lost she
is the most desirable in the flock; t
I worth of a pipe may be measured
n the degree of its disrepute The pi
smoker may mislay his treasure, b
= he does not despair of finding it.
. his ewes cannot discover it he ne
hnt close them and follow his no
One who has learned to love a pi
can select his own from dozen
similar forms and age though he
blindfolded. Few mothers would v
linglv risk title to an infant in a 81
liar test.