Year: 1866

for woman, Queen Victoria was one of our
fayorites, not because she sat upon throne, but
because she was a good, true woman.


Now, if be had been tTenchman, the compli-
ment paid to his sovereign would have sottened
his criticism, and he would have found some
kind word to have said of us but he was q plain
John Bull, and proceeded in the same strain, but
with a more provoking personality. He continued:


Your habits at the table are not always re-
fined. I often see men and women shovel their
peas into their mouths with their knives. / have
seen them pick their teeth with the prongs of
their forks At Western hotel | saw man
take n qnid of tobacco from his mouth aud put it
on the table cloth, alongside of his plate, until he
had finished his dinner By-the-bye, your habits
of chewing and smoking tobacco are shameful
0ld ana young, rich and poor the educated and
the illiterate, chew and smoke tobacco. Cigar
stumps and tobacco stains are to be seen every
swhere. The appetite for the nasty weed seems to
have grown into a passion; even well-dressed
men, who claim to be cleanly in their habits, will
roll the quid like, q sweet morsel under their
tongues, making their breath Tetid, disc0lOrng
their teeth and soil1ug their linen. Why, | can
smell a tobacco cheweT at the distance of a rod,
and his Odor never fails TO bring sickenng seusa
ton. How delicate and sensitive young ladies can
endure the presence OF tobacco chewer-hOW
they can receive his caresses without utter l0ath
ing and disgnst-is something unaccountabie to
me. Then tmen who pretend to be gentlemen
will not hesitate to smoke all about the house.
Having smoked their own faces to the color of
smoked ham, they convert every room to which
they have access into snoke-house. To the
credit Of railroad companies be it spoken, they
have provided special cars where these human
locomotives can puff out twenty miles of smoke an
hour; now they should provide disintectants so
that the smoking and smoked passengers cannot
sicken tidy men and women who do not indulge in
such disgusting habits was looking out ola car
window the other day, when the wind blew into
my face the spray Of tobacco juice from the lips
of feow-passenger who sat in front of me.
My first impulse to take him by the collar and
pitch him out of the window; but he disarmed
me with an apology, while the tobacco tears
trickled down from the corners of his mouth and
formed brooch on his shirt bosom. | merely
said never mind, | will spit on you some time
when have something disagreeable in my
mouth.'n


I replied that, although I did not use tobacco
myself, had greatrespect for many persons who
did yet the respect was not for the habit, but in
spite OF it.


Hod!'' he said, before I could crowd an
other word into the conversation; we drink
beer, so do you; but our beer is made of malt and
hops, while yours is a poisonous compound not fit
for swine to drink besides, you drink whisky
and gin and rum and brandy and stuff made Of
logwood and whisky, and other dye-stufs, and
call it wine"


I said, with considerable emphasis, that the
United States was the birthplace of temperance
reform; that we had four or five millions of sigma
lures to the total abstinence pledge and that our
temperance literature was scattered like snow
fakes ever the land.