The Delights of Smoking.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 248, 24 April 1896, Page 3

The Delights of Smoking.

kt the last meeting of the Milton Council, Alderman Latta asked tht Mayor if he intended to continue smoking at the Council meetings^ as he was then doing. He had beeß asked by a number of ratepayers tc put the question. The. Mayor replied in the affirmative. Alderman Latta said the ratepayers were getting up a petition against it. The Mayor said the opinion of the ratepayers was a matter of indifference' to him, and ii the petition was not respectfully worded it would not be received. Alderman Latta said smoking was not % * becoming. Would tbe Mayor smoke a pipe or cigar at a public meeting^ -" The Mayor said it would be unbecoming to light up at a public meeting, but councils were different. " I was elected Mayor, and when you elected nue you elected ray pipe also. There is nothing in the Act bearing on the matter." Alderman Latta, " Then we must address you as your lordship and your pipe." The Mayor, " Exactly so." Alderman' Latta said no other Mayor smoked at Council meetings. The Mayor, " Well, that shows originality on uiy part." Alderman Latta, is not creditable." Alderman Mason said that in America judges smoked and chewed on the Bench, and were ' even too lazy to sit up and hear cases. The Mayor here gave representation of an American judge, by tilting his chair back and elevating his feet on the Council table, with his cigar in his mouth. Several ratepayers present asked if there was any objection to their smoking, and on the Mayor's reply in the negative the whole room soon became enveloped in smoke. — Town and Country Journal.