Boys and 'Bacca

New Zealand Tablet, 24 December 1908, Page 29

Boys and 'Bacca

i . At - Port -Chalmers,; and in two' or three other places te g w 6 P^l^T ™ eks^? Wo-smoking boys haveTbeenhaled before the bencn of justice and sternly cautioned not to do it again.' The lesson is well worth givinc to a young nation that does not wish its future manhood to treact the path of physical degeneracy and unfitness that has robbed Great Britain of so appreciable a percentage of her powers of production . and of national defence/ In Holland boys smoke rather freely; and ii* some unwise parts of Mexico the cigarette has reached the position of being a prize-stimulus to proficiency in study. But Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes's eloquent warring ever stands both for. tropical and sub-tropical and other lands : that youthful indulgence in the reverie-breeding narcotic is one of the sure ways of blighting the flower of youth's early promise