Tobacco

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 August 1916, Page 3

Tobacco

« (BY WALT MASON). Tobacco is 'a harmful weed , t-ho learned pnysicialls are agreed, il stains the teeth and bites the tongue, ;tnd injures iarnyx, heart and lung, it spoils the whiskies, taints the breath, ami sends man to an early death, and when he's laid beneath toe .sod the legal lights divide his wad. And yet if this punk weed were barred we d find the sledding pretty hard, for in one tiling tobacco's blest, in that it soothe the savage breast. And many husbands are serene, who would be ijuar-rol.-omo ami mean, indulging oft in mental gripes, if you should take away their pipes. When lam smoking I'm as mild as any gent that ever smiled, and folks who hear mo eh-.rp I bloa l romaik. "His temper is so sweat!" I!"

when, impelled by aims sublime. I cut out smoking f"i - a time, I m .>ore as any glowing bear thai mumbies .soupbones in its lair, and all the women i-'-the shack are hoping I will soon get back t<j blowing smoke around my 100111, e'en though it means an early t" -