The Crittenden press., 1920-06-11

mystery TO induce CONSIDERABLE speCuiu-
tiOn.
My Lady Nlcotlne's influence is not
always soothing. Like all great per.
sonages she has made enemies. Men
began TO fight owe: her q long, long
while ago. and only the other day the
newspapers told Of the first OF pos
slble recurrence Of the night raiders
outrages In Kentucky. Urban VIII and
Innocent NJ Illuminated against her.
Sultan Amuret " decreed death by tor
ture TO her deyOtees. James | OF Eng
land issued his "Counterblaste to To-
bacco," In which he denounced her as
n creature OF the "pit that Is bottom
less" Lucy Page CASTOR OF Antl-Ciga-
rette League Of America fame Is sus-
pected OF desire 10 shy her bonnet
into the presidential ring. Low on the
horizon, no bigger than woman's
hand. Is cloud which rumbles "to-
bacco next"
Possibly some Of My Lady Nlcotlne's
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, Il
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 n won.
an, but n good Cigar is smoke"
Mark Twain suspects that the man who
doesn't smoke loses ian appalling az
gregate IF happiness"
This sort OF worshiper clings to the
heresy that this is pretty good old
world after all. He Isn't worrying
about spirit manifestations and Is not
concerned over the doctrine Of the sub
llmlnal soul. He suspects Lucy Page
CASTOR Of being n spiritual descendant
OF the Puritans who condemned bear
battling not so much because II gave
pain TO the bear us because II gave
pleasure to the spectators.
"When doctors disagree who shall
decide?" The doctors nre ms divided
In their opinion Of My Lady Nicotine
as are the literary lights. Some see
In her n verltnble plague to humanity.
Others maintain that she Is rather n
henefactor. or course most physicians
hold that smoking Is bad for young
and growing specimens Of the human
species. And probably most Of them
are not prepared TO advise that women
should smoke. And there are certainly
some men who cannot smoke without
III effects-iust as there are men who
cannot en-! Strawberries or drink coffee
without harm. A cold bath In the
morning is meat and drink to some
men: II would put others under the
sod In short order. Probably the ma.
lority of up.to-date medical men are
Of the opinion that II has yet TO he
proved that smoking In moderation
hurts any normal man.
At one extreme OF human Judgment
| Is that Of the man who wrote that n
nation which smokes tobacco perishes.
At the other Is that Of the man who
predicted In 1918 that America would
win the war because II was the heav.
lest smoker OF all the nations.
My Lady Nicotine needs no press
agent and has no trouble about break.
ing into print. Some enthusiastic col.
lcctors of "Nlcotnnia" have whole
libraries about her. There Is one
George Arents Jr., Of New York
who Is the proud possessor Of more
than $500 hooks, booklets and nam.
phle,S devoted wholly or IN part "a
her. These libraries tell pretty much
everything about the lady.
No European ever heard Of tobacco
until the first week of November. liNo
The commonly accepted version Of IN,
story Is that two sailors sent hy Co
lumhus to cNrlorc the island which hc
named san Salvador returned with n
tale NJ natives who carried flrchrand,