Tobacco whiffs for the first-class smoking carriage / by a London journalist.

Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tobacco whiffs for the first-class smoking carriage / by a London journalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cut,” “ IRoll,” anb “ Ibarb ” Tobacco. “ The Old World was sure forlorn, wanting Thee!” C. Lamb. “ The Poets of old Many fables have told Of the gods and their symposia: But Tobacco alone, Had they known it, had gone For their nectar and ambrosia.” “Wit’s Recreations.” 1640. “When all things W’ere made, none were better made than this ; to be A Lone Man’s Companion, A Bachelor’s Friend, A Hungry Man’s Food, A Sad Man’s Cordial, A Wakeful Man’s Sleep, and A Chilly Man’s Fire ; while for staunching of wounds, purging of rheum, and settling of the stomach, there’s no herb like it under the canopy of Heaven.” Salvation Yeo, in G. Kingsley's “Westward Ho ! ” “ Tobacco, divine, rare, super-excellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all their panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher’s stones—a sovereign remedy to all diseases.” Burton's “Anatomy of Melancholy.” N essaying to write a “ History of the Tobacco we Smoke,” including a notice of pipes, and a variety of “odds and ends’ in connection with smokers, I am quite aware that such a task cannot be satisfactorily performed in the compass of a few pages. The “ Literature of Tobacco ” is an extensive one, and even a large volume like that published by Mr. F. W. Fairholt some twenty years ago—a most interesting- work and replete with antiquarian lore—by no means exhausts the subject. I will, however, venture to believe that these brief jottings may help to pass pleasantly some smoker’s idle minutes, cither in the arm chair or smoking carriage, and that they will represent a fair compendium of the subject with which they deal. B