Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — Burmah Smokers. [ARTICLE]

Burmah Smokers.

Burmah is the paradise of thAfihM&efe if bis paradise eemflists in the d&euce Of airTostfoiTt on fm*m*^mrtrXo preacher wMI feeiEj hint tliat ; toffißoo* smoking is tltePrsflltep to for, with raipfi darnel lAql chleffirwherd t|><^iiS|kJnjn.fe*lit [ tear s|fi iHHjie mosTnencaxOiy for flip women of every rank possibl#, 1 more inveterate smokers than the mefi. No dread of liis master’adispleasure re- 1 *tw» the fldilhfliflltAotimy from he cigar or dgarett™ Boys and girls . alike smoke as soon ns they-‘can wMfk and children are even said to learn the habit, before they leaye their moUiec’s arms. The ne\v-cx.mer to the country js often offended by the freodom with which a Burman who lias uot been much thrown with Europeans wilt continue to puff hifil cigar in Jus presence, in absolute innofc ceneebf tiny bites'ch of- oourtesy, and ip the indigenous school children, even in class, only lay aside tlieir cigai-s while tlielr lungs are occupied with WMVJingj out the trite textt es the spelling-book.* A pipe is rarely seen, hut- cigars and cigprettipfi fire ifpjfrsal, and tfreir ihan»Vf facture and eule Torih one of the commonest employments of-thesWoraeff,