The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-06-11

fascination OF Suff1clent
mystery to induce considerable specula-
ton.
My Lady Nicotine's influence is not
always soothing. Like all great per-
sonages she has made enemies. Men
began to fight owe. her long, long
while ago, and only the other day the
newspapers told Of the first of a 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 ! of Eng
land issued his "Counterblaste to To-
bacco," In which he denounced her as
creature of the "pit that is bottom
less" Lucy Page CASTOR of AntiCiga-
rette League Of America fame is sus-
pected of desire to shy her bonnet
into the presidential ring. Low on the
horizon, no bigger than a woman's
hand, Is cloud which rumbles ''to-
bacco next"
Possibly sse-r Il My Lady Nicotine's
famous dxs<tees have loved her for
the eneU11ks she has made. Anyway,
SpenseS 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: 1.-THE man
who smokes thinks like sage and acts
like q Samaritan" Kipling profoundly
| reflects that "a woman is only WON
an, but a good cigar is 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 q 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 spiritual descendant
of the Puritans who condemned bear
batting not so much because 1t gave
pain to the bear as because it gave
pleasure to the spectators.
"When doctors disagree who shall
| decide? The doctors are as divided
In their opinion Of My Lady Nicotine
as are the literary lights. Some see
in her a veritable plague to humanity
| Others maintain that she is rather 6
benefactor. OF course most physicians
hold that smoking is bad for young
and growing specimens of the human
species. And probably most of then
| n 70 1rrieo
should smoke. And there are certainly
some men who cannot smoke withou
| 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; 1t would put others under The
sod In short order. Probably the ma
jority of up-to-date medical men are
of the opinion that 1t has yet to BIZ
proved that smoking In moderation
hurts any normal man.
At one extreme of human judgment
nation which smokes tobacco perishes
At the other is that of the man who
predicted in 1913 that America woulf
win the war because 1t was the heav
lest smoker of. all the nations.
My Lady Nicotine needs no pres.
agent and has no trouble about break
ing into print. Some enthusiastic col
lectors of "NIcotania" have whole
Libraries about her. There is one
George Arents, Jr.. of New York
who is the proud possessor of more
than $500 books booklets and pam
| phlets devoted wholly or In part t.
her. These libraries tell pretty muci
everything about the lady.
No European ever heard of Tobacco,
until the first week of November, 1892
The commonly accepted version of tn,
story is that two sailors sent by Co
lumbus to explore the island which h,
named San Salvador returned with ,
tale Of natives who carried firehrand