Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1886 — Curing Himself. [ARTICLE]

Curing Himself.

“You will be a man before your mother,” used to be said to boys who were a trifle too smart. The stripling who paraded himself in the scene below was rather worsted by somebody else’s mother. “Don’t you know it’s very wrong to smoke, my bby?” said an elderly lady, in a i ailwayi waiting-; oom, to Young America, "Who persisted in putting a cheap cigarette, much to the bld lady’s discomfort. “Oh, I smoke for my health,” answered the boy, emitting a volume of “smoke from his which almost strangled the old lady t , —----- “But you never heard of a cure from smoking?” continued the oldlady when she had regained consciousness. “Oh, yes, I did,” persisted the boy, as he fumed his mouth into a young Vesuvius working on full time: “that’s the way they cure pigs. ” . “Smoko on, then," quickly replied the old lady, “there is some hope for you yet.”—Fo?iA:ers Statesman.