What Does Your Husband Smoke ?
— A Little Homily for Women to Read. — -Hearken, my^daughter (says the Tearnai Mrs Solomon), for the ways of a man are as familiar unto me as the tunes of a street piano, even as " Deirrie," and nu variations are as the variations of " Ths Merry Widow Waltz " or "The Maiden's Prayer." Lo, by the form in which he taketh tobacco can I tell the tanied tiring from the wild and the domesticated aiiimat from the unbroksn colt; for his taste ';. women is like unto has taste in. smukins Then, I cha>rp;e thee, eet not thice heart upon a youth that smoke: Ji many cigarettes, for he shall have many flirt^on?. Yea, he regardeth a woman like u.ito a cigarette, as somstbing for an idle moment in which to light the flame, from which to take a puff or two (or a. kiss or .wo', and th-en to fling aside — with a yawn. But a bachelor who smoketh cipa-rs pru ferret h sniey love aft'aiiis, which la^t long-er. Yet theses, likewise, die out in the end: and nothing rejoices nis soai lik? a fresh cigar a.nd a fresh heart-interest. Verily, verily, only a settled man wluc-n hath been long in double harness sm.-ketli a pipe. For a pipe i 9 like unto a wife, economical if bitter, a thing which can be left at home, yet which in time bo cometh juKt a "habit." from whi?"a hrcannot break away. Yea, he clingeth move devotedly to an old briar tha.ii to an old wife. But a married man which is not stLtlei, but only legally yoked to a v.>man, smoketh cicar-* and con?j!c-th liimself with amnities all the days of his life !
What Does Your Husband Smoke ?
Otago Witness, Issue 2902, 27 October 1909, Page 74
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