Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1881 — A Plea for Tobacco. [ARTICLE]

A Plea for Tobacco.

Here is an eloquent plea for the use of tpbacco: “It composes the mind, busies the thoughts, it attracts all outward objects to the mind’s view, it settles and retents the senses, it cheers the understanding, strengthens the judgment, spies out errors, it exasperates follies, it heats ambition, it comforts sorrow, it abates passion, it excites to noble actions, it digests conception, it enlarges knowledge, it elevates imagination, it creates fancy, it quickens wit, and it makes reason pleader arid truth judge in all disputes and controversies between right and wrong.” So wrote Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, some 200 years ago, and probably many a wife has indorsed her statements since, for it does work wonders with an irritable man,"'we all know. Go to French girls if you want instructions how to get even with a faithless lover. An exchange tells of how one ffirl was jilted by a young man who yielded to the temptations of a very large marriage portion. She laid her plans well. On the eve of the betrothal, while the affianced pair were feasting and making merry, she sept a letter to the brideelect announcing that she had poisoned all the food which furnished forth the banquet. The grim statement was read rtloud at the table and naturally caused • a panic. The finances and her mother were carried out in hysterics, and doctors were summoned from far and near. One of the dishes was analyzed and found td Contain nb trace of poison, and /after further experiment the company realized that they had been made the victims x>f a practical joke. • But the of working emetics and stomach pumps cooled the young man’s passion for his second and wealthier love.