The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-04


mystery to induce considerable specu'"'
ton.
My Lady Nicotlne's influence Is not
always soothing. Like all great per-
sonagcs she has made enemies. Men
began 10 fight owe: her long. long
while ago, and only the other day the
newspapers told OF the first of pos
slhle recurrence Of the night raiders
outrages In Kentucky. Urban VIII aud
Innocent NJ Illuminated against her,
Sultan Amuret w decreed death by tor
ture to her devotecs. James | of Eng
land issued his "Counterblaste to To-
bacco." In which he denounced her as
a creature Of the ''plt that Is bottom
less" Lucy Page CASTOR of 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 woman's
hand. Is a cloud which rumbles ito
bacco NEXT"
Possibly So 4 My Lady Nicotine's
famous 1es<sees have lovcd her for
the enevSses she has made, Anyway,
Spenss. wrote Of her rs divine" Ry-
ron sasS Sublime" Lamb declared his
affection thus.
For thy sake. tobacco. I
Would do anything but die
Bulwer-l.ytton wrote this; THE man
who smokes thinks like a sage and acts
like a Samaritan" Kipling profoundly
reflects that n woman Is only a Won.
an, but good cigar Is smoke"
Mark Twain suspects that the man who
doesn't smoke loses IAN appalling ag-
gregate of happiness"
This sort of worshlper clings to the
heresy that this Is a pretty good old
world after all. He isn't worrying
about spirit manifestations and is no,
concerned over the doctrine of the sub
llminal soul. He suspects Lucy Page
Castor of being spiritual descendant
Of the Puritans who condemned bear
hating not so much because II gave
pain to the bear as because II gave
pleasure to the spectators.
"When doctors disagree who shall
decidef" The doctors are ms divide,
In their opinlon OF My Lady Nieotin,
rs are the literary lights, Some Sc,
IN her veritahle plague to humanity
Others maintain that she Is rather
henefactor. OF course most physician
hold that smoking Is bad for youn
and growing specimens OF the huma
species. And probably most of ther
are not prepared TO advise that wome
should smoke. And there are certainl
some men who cannot smoke withor
m effects-iust as there are men VII
cannot eat Strawberries or drink coffe
without harm, A cold hath In III
morning Is meat and drink TO son,
men. II would put others under II
nod In short order. Probably the IN,
tcrity Of up-to-date medical men al
of the opinion that 1t has yet 10 |
proved that smoking In moderate,
hurts any normal man,
Al one extreme Of human iudgmel
Is that Of the man who wrote that
nation which smokes tobacco resishs
At the other Is that Of the man ",
predicted In 1918 that America Won
win the war because II was the hea
lest smoker Of all the nations.
My Lady Nicotine needs no pre-
agent and has 80 trouble about hrea
Ing Into print, Some enthusiastic 9
lee,ors of "Nieotania" have who
libraries about her. There Is one
George Arentss Jr~ Of New York
Who Is the proud pesseSsor OF nc
than 400 books booklets and PSI
phlets devoted wholly or In part
her. These libraries tell pretty nau
everything about the lady.
No European ever heard Of tohas
until the first week Of November, IA
The commonly accepted version Of I
xtoey Is that two sailors sent by
lumhus to explore the island which
named San Salvador returned viii
.tnl, al natives who carried nrehra'