TAKING OF SNUFF.

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 183, 1 May 1933, Page 3

TAKING OF SNUFF.

A writer in an English magazine deciares that young Oxford is taking to snuff in the interests of economy, a snuffbox being much cheaper to replenish than a cigarette or cigar case. Such a move would have been warmly approved for at least two other reasons by the late Dr. Gordon Hake, whose opinion on medicine and literature counted for much in Victorian days. Looking back on 80 years of what he regarded as a welt-spent life. Hake declared that, thanks to snuff-taking. lie had rendered his “Schneiderian membrane impervious to weather, and', while others sneeze and run at the nose mid eyes, I have never bad a cold in Um head.” Hake also attributed his literary success to tlie constant companionship of a snuffbox, one pinch from which, he asserted, had power “Io wake up that torpor so prevalent between tlie nose mid brain, making the wings of an idea uncurl like those of a newborn butterfly!”