. Tobacco in song and story . but the breaks ofsilence never seem disagreeable, beingfilled up by the puffing of the smoke ;hence there is no awkwardness in resum-ing the conversation, no straining foreffect—sentiments are delivered in agrave, easy manner. The cigar harmo- SMOKERS STORIES. 99 nizes the society, and soothes at once thespeaker and the subject whereon he con-verses. I have no doubt that it is fromthe habit of smoking that the Turks andAmerican Indians are such monstrouswell-bred men. The pipe draws wisdomfrom the lips of the philosopher, and shutsup the mouth of the foolish ; it
. Tobacco in song and story . but the breaks ofsilence never seem disagreeable, beingfilled up by the puffing of the smoke ;hence there is no awkwardness in resum-ing the conversation, no straining foreffect—sentiments are delivered in agrave, easy manner. The cigar harmo- SMOKERS STORIES. 99 nizes the society, and soothes at once thespeaker and the subject whereon he con-verses. I have no doubt that it is fromthe habit of smoking that the Turks andAmerican Indians are such monstrouswell-bred men. The pipe draws wisdomfrom the lips of the philosopher, and shutsup the mouth of the foolish ; it generatesa style of conversation, contemplative,thoughtful, benevolent and unaffected;in fact, dear Bob,—I must out with it,—I am an old smoker. At home, I havedone it up the chimney rather than not doit (the which I own is a crime). I vow and believe that the cigar hasbeen one of the greatest creature-com-forts of my life—a kind companion, agentle stimulant, an amiable anodyne, acementer of friendship. — lOO TOBACCO FACTS. AGES ATTAINED BY GREATSMOKERS. Inveterate smokers have reachedvery great ages. Hobbes, who smokedtwelve pipes a day at Chatsworth, at-tained the age of 92 ; Izaak Walton, 90 ;Dr. Carr, 78; all devoted lovers of thepipe; and Dr. Isaac Barrow called tobaccohis panpharmacon. In 1769, died Abraham Favrot, a Swissbaker, aged 104; to the last he walkedfirmly, read without spectacles, and al-ways had a pipe in his mouth. In 1845, di^d Pheasy Molly, of Buxton,Derbyshire, aged 96 ; she was burned todeath, her clothes becoming ignited whilelighting her pipe at the fire. In 1856, there died at Wellbury, NorthRiding of Yorkshire, Jane Garbutt, agedno; she retained her faculties and en-joyed her pipe to the last. She hadsmoked very nigh a hundred years. TOBACCO FACTS. lOI Wadd, in his Comments on Corpulency,mentions an aged Effendi, whose backwas bent like a bow, and who was in thehabit of taking daily four ounces of rice,thirty cups of coffee, three
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