A YOUTHFUL SMOKIST.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 253, 13 February 1877, Page 3

A YOUTHFUL SMOKIST.

Tim use o£ tobacco In the ruu'yery Unot generally recorumamtuit by the tuc<Hc»l >, profession, but £n>ru the dutaib given by at «f tIW Vw'wrmtti (<kwtfo of the an inUaat-svaokyr ttt Ohio, t it seems t£lt tobacco may fee cans timed I vrit& attvantagy in the cradta, and that . tk* ptp« ©r cigar occasionally proves an

I admirable substitute fur the wet-nurse. A baby-boy in Bradford Junction was ! weaned with coiisiderabfsi difficulty at the ace of two years. Ail the v.mtal substi- : ttttca provided to i>ru: i bn' ■:vs in audi cases were indignant-y by the child, food was refused, and, with hunger ami constant fretting, his health failed to such a degree as to cause serious alarm to his parents. V> orn «»"t i>ji watching and anxiety, his father, for the purpose of temporarily pacitying him, one day withdrew a cigar from It is mouth and placed it in that of the child, who, eagerly grasping it, pulled away at it in silence and with evident delight. The c.qwi'iment was thcneeforw.-ivd repeated daily with the must marvellous and gratifying results. The bad symptoms »pet % M I y disappeared, the child recovered his appetite and gained considerably in H /.-It. Cut the desire for smoking increased even mora rapidly than that f»>r Coining would <;ukt tlie child but tohaew«», and beginning with »>ne ctgar a day, in t'.vvh't;months* time tic consumed no fewer tuan twelve cigars daily. If was then noticed that he sutlVved En hvatiit. became iwr* vons. and displayed little oi that healiny curi»>aity in aivnnd him that is -so characteristic very young children. The • l uanticy was reduced to five c'gars a e.ay. and ttie child n»►*.♦.* continues at that uumt>»:i\ with e-vry appearance of good health and bodily growih.