Life — January 27, 1898 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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ONLY 75! Shades of Ward McAllister! Not enough to ballast her! Won't the Social Ship go on the rocks? Atithe Metropolitan Danced they, and they called it an Elite event of pure patrician stocks ‘Tis surely downright robbery Of all who love real snobbery To fill the Social Path with stumbling blocks; To bar out those who want to go When all the world must surely know ‘That golden keys should open all the locks. —Indianapotis News. “Ir is a conspira med the leading lady. * My enemies have conspired to make my appearance in the new play a failure. They want to ruin me, to drive me from the stage, to—" © Well, well, what is it all about?” asked the mana- ger, wearily. “Oh, they have circulated the most dreadful report about me!" she cried. “If it ts believed, nobody will come to see me. They: have said—oh, how can I tell itt Why should such attacks be made on a defenseless woman who has never injured anybody!—they have said that [—that I Allright. Go on,” put in the manager, soothingly. They have said.” cried the leading lady, making a supreme effort to control her emotion, “that I—I am a virtuous woman! FLORIDA, AIKEN AND AUGUSTA. Among the most popular resorts of the South are Aik C., and Augusta, Ga. Each has beautiful hotels, golf links and all of the accessories for indoor and outdoor winter enjoyments, The climate at these places is unequalled in its evenness and the total absence of chilling and dampness, The direct route is via the Southern Railway, which operates through ars and two trains daily, leaving New York at 12.00 night and 4.20 p.m. The appointments of these trains are superb. An addit train, the “New York and Florida Limited,” the handsomest train in the world, goes into service January 1th, leaving New York at 12.00 p. m, and reaching St. Augustine ext afternoon, This train is operated solid between New York and St. Augustine, composed of Dining, Sleep- ing, Observation and Compartment cars, and carries through cars to Augusta for the accommodation of Aiken and Augusta travel. Rates and information may be had of A. S. Thweatt, Eastern Passenger Agent, 271 Broad- way, N.Y. THE BOY IS FATHER OF THE MAN, appy—oh, Nappy!" It was the voice of Mrs. B. calling to her son, and there was bo answe “Oh, Nappy! Nappy-e-c-e-e-ee!" and the olive trees on the sides of the mountains looking down upon the quaint old town of Ajaccio rustled in the breezes which wafted the echoes out over the waters of the blue Medi- terranean. Who of us has not bi her child And who has ever forgotten the wonderful crescendo of a woman's voice on such an occasion? Again she called, and faint and far off, as if hidden in some cave of the hills, came the long-drawn-out response: Ma-a-a-a'm!” “What are you doing there, you naughty boy t" Nothin’. » Yes you are, too. blackberry jan “No'm, I ain't neither—” The boy came out of the preserve closet wiping his mouth with his coat sleeve. “Tain't, neither,” he repeated, and then let his voice fall away until it were as if the angels whispered: “I've done et it.” Thus do we see in this simple anecdote from the early life of Napoleon Bonaparte how truly the tree will grow as the twig Is inclined. <1 a mother's voice calling to You're in that closet, eating my Prince of Wales's favorite wine, de LOSSY-HOLDEN CHAMPAGNE. > LIFE: An Interesting Discussion. HAT was a remarkable pricking of a popular bubble which Mr. W. H. Garrison performed at the November meeting of the New York Medico-Legal Society. Starting with the statement that 4,000,000,000 cigarettes were sold in the United States last year, he held that it was high time for medical science to voice its opinion against these little arti- cles of luxury if the popular belief con- cerning their injuriousness had any ground whatever. It took three centuries, he said, to prove to Europe that the tomato we valuable article of food, and not a dan- gerous and poisonous growth. Even in our own country the tomato was re- garded as poisonous until a compara- tively short time ago. He then went on to show that a pound of tobacco will fill 416 cigarettes, and that a pound of cigarette paper will wrap 12,000. He then quoted from Prof. Willis G. Tucker, Analyst of the New York State Board of Health, as follows : “Cigarettes are generally made from tobacco of good quality.” “ Sensational statements that they are prepared from the filthiest tobacco and dirtiest refuse are not worthy of credence and can be easily refuted.” ‘The tobacco used in the manufacture of cigarettes is much less frequently flavored and otherwise artificially treated than is ordinary chew: ing or smoking tobacco and that em ployed in the manufacture of From J. C. Wharton, chemist, of Nash- ville, he quotes: ‘*The analyses and observations of the materials composing these American cigarettes lead me to the conclusion and belief that they are made from well-selected, clean tobacco leaf, and a purified article of harmless paper. City Chemist Cass L. Kennicott and Assistant City Chemist D. B. Bisbee, acting under the authority of the Com- missioner of Health of Chicago, in a re- port made last month say: American cigarettes are made of ‘bright Vir- ginia” (this is a technical term and means a tobacco grown in Virginia and North Carolina, and warchoused for three years before it is used), and ‘ frequent analy show that this tobacco contains only from 1 to 14g per cent. of nicotine. The mildest Havana contains much more, while the best grades of domestic cigars reach as high as 81g per cent.” “The paper, considered merely as paper, which is wrapped around cigarettes, is about as pure a form of paper as it is possible to manufacture.” A curious development of the popular delusion is found in the Chicago ordi- nance which prohibits the sale of cigar- ettes containing ‘opium, morphine, jimpson weed, belladonna, glycerine, and sugar.” Add to this arsenic, phos- phorus, clorine and copper, creosote and saltpetre, supposed to be found in the paper, and you have the ingredients of which popular prejudice has manufac- tured a cigarette, which has never had any existence other than this phantom of a superactive imagination. The following able chemists have made thorough search for these adulter- ants and have not been able to find a trace of them: Dr. G. F. Payne, State Chemist of Georgia. Prof. H. W. Wiley, late Chief Chemist United States Department of Agricul- ture, Profs. Robert and Alfred M. Peter, Lexington, Ky. Prof. James Dewar, M. A., F. R.S., Cambridge University, England, Prof. Wm. Odling, M. A., F. R. 8., Oxford University, England. C. Meymott Tidy, M. A., M. B., Pro- fessor of Chemistry and Forensic Medi- cine, London Hospital. City Chemist C L. Kennicott and Assistant Chemist D, B. Bisbee, Chicago, ml. Prof. James F. Babcock, of the Massa- chusetts College of Pharmacy and Pro- fessor of Chemistry, in Boston Unive sity. Prof. L. W. Andrews, Chemistry State Unive All these eminent authorities are unan Professor of y of Iowa. imous in declaring the cigarette free from adulteration. to such overwhelming It com back with the oft-repcated and always What does popular ignorance say evidence from scientific men ? exploded lies about deaths and insanity from cigarette smoking. “T chance to have at hand,” said the speaker, ‘‘a clipping from the New York Sun of September Ist last, con- taining an interview with Dr. F. W. Robertson, the insanity expert at Belle- vue Hospital, New York, in which he ‘Now, while I say that cigarettes are the least injurious of the methods of smoking, [do not mean to say that the use of tobacco is not harmful. It often is. Some persons are so consti- tuted that a very slight use of it will upset them physically, Excessive use is bad for anyone. I do claim, however, that there never was a case of insanity which can be traced directly or indirectly to the use of tobacco in any form.’” The persistence of popular delusion in the face of the most expert testimony is remarkable, but Mr. Garrison seems to have delivered some body blows in defence of the American cigarette. Up to present writing no one seems to have been willing or able to refute his state- ments or question his authorities. comicbooks.com