Unseemly, Unnatural and Unpleasant.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 13, 28 September 1910, Page 67

Unseemly, Unnatural and Unpleasant.

Kington is in Herefordshire, and in Kington is a Primitive Methodist chapel, used on a recent Sunday for the grotesque proceedings of four persons who, we presume, have official connection with tlie place. Having issued an announcement that they would conduct a debate on the question, C£ Does tobacco become an idol to many, and does it defile the temple of. the Holy Ghost, .so that the Spirit of God is grieved and will not dwell in us?” and that during the proceedings “a quantity of tobacco, pipes, cigarettes, cigars, pouches, etc., would be publicly bin ned as a protest against this growing evil,” they managed to get an audience in the pews. The debate raised, there was a heated discussion with considerable opposition, but the resolution affirming that smoking was unseemly, uncleanly, unnatural, unnecessary, unhealthy, and unpleasant was declared carried. The stock of a redeemed tobacconist was put into the chapel stove and lighted. One Kington youth, sharper than the rest of the audience, thought it was a pity to consign so many cigars to blazes, so he thrust his band into the stove, rescued 18 from the Hames, and vanished in the twinkling of an eye. We do not excuse his depredation, of course, but probably he and bis friends were sufficiently punished when they commenced to light up the unfragrant weeds. rhe cigars may have been unsaleable at seven a shilling. The suggestion that the new Indian coins should show the King crowned recalls Unit this was done in India dur ing the reign of King Edward. This was -the useful nickel anna. Also the 111(11 Victorian rupee showed Queen Victoria crowned, and the present suggestion was borne in mind in designing the rupees for the native States, like .those of Aliwar, Bikanir, etc., which bear the Maharajah’s device upon one side, and the crowned head of Quceu Victoria upon the other. All the other Indian rupees, from the time of King William, show the head of the Sovereign unadorned.