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APPROVE OF THE WEED,l • ■ENGLISH DOCTORS CONSIDER TOBACCO WHOLESOME.»» ...'J’lie f/iucel Siiys the nar1 Him ttemoii-UiaC H I*Jay4 an important J’nrt in a jjolillcr's'IJio.'•'..An1 interesting change has taken place within a few years in the prevailing opinion among English medical /men with regard to the use of tobacco. The theory that moderate smoking is a vice and always deleterious long ago disappeared from the medical profession in England. * There followed a period when the prevailing view of English physicians was that the physical and mental satisfaction, .which smokers derive from pipe, cigar, or cigarette practically offset the dangers of nicotine1. This, opinion has in turn beon* modified until. now the average' English dootor thoroughly approves the use of tobacco- as no! 'only harmless, but .wholesome' in counteracting some of the tendencies of high-pressure modern; life. This attitude of the medical profession may have something to do with enormous increase in the per capita consumption of tobacco in England during recent years, but the true explanation will be found in the amazing spread of the cigarette habit among women.BURNING QUESTION.Tficiing to Paardcberg, to Bloemfontein, j to Pretoria and beyond, that when i rations were but Two or three biscuits a day the only real physical content of each twenty-four hours came with the pipe smoked by the smouldering embers of a campfire. This pipe cased I lai! the way to sleep that might other-' slt wise have lingered, delayed by the sheer, bodily fatigue and mental restlessness caused by prolonged and monotonous exertion.SEDATIVE QUALITIES. •It is difficult then to believe that tobacco is anything) but a real help to men who are suffering long labors and receiving little food, and probably thomaPritreverEre0son;Fatwhiway in which it helps is by quieting j !UPSASnkfHlf ! Am r n _ — 1 • I . . torcerebration—for no one doubts itssedative qualities—and thus allowing more easily sleep, which is so all-important when semi-starvation has to be endured. The cases of acute mental derangement in' the course of campaigns such as the present are many, unfavorable) condition. Shall we see in the near future patients with, tobacco amblyopia or smoker’s heart acquired while the trusting, friend of. tobacco thought that he was enjoying unharmed the well-earned solace of a hard day's march? Wc believe not, and thatthe open air will have saved what might have been the untoward results of smoking when' unfed.” •Tim a ouc, of the burning questions j GB0WTH 0„ CANADIAN CITIES. ’ the hour m England. Social argu-The following table, showing theof the hour in England. Social argu incuts enter Into the discussion as much as physical ones, and I do not intend to enumerate them writes a London correspondent. In fact, the subject has reached the controversial stage in America also, if one can believe the confessions of American visi-tors of tho( past two or three seasons, and it would be superfluous for me to state tho case pro and con.But would the doctors approve of cigarette smoking, by wjomen generally? The question was suggested theother day by my noticing the evident•repugnance with which a conservative young, English matron1 consumed an . after-dinner cigarette. I asked her if she really enjoyed tobacco.“I hate it,” she replied frankly, and (hen she explained that her doctor had commanded her to smoke a cigarette after dinner and at bedtime. She had tried everything for insomnia and finally her physician prescribed tobacco, saying that he had. found it efficacious in a number of cases.“I do sleep better, she added, but 1 detest tobacco in every form and Iam no more* reconciled to it now thanat first.**lt;Put this caso hardly suggests the answer, the medicaL profesaion would give to the sweeping question, Should women smoke ?”ADVANTAGES OF TOBACCO.The lancet is outspoken upon thepopulation of the Canadian cities in 1881 and 1890, and their estimated population at present, is reproduced from the Canadian Magazine for December :......Montreal Toronto QuebecHamiltonOttawa St. John Halifax London Winnipeg Kingston Victoria ...VancouverBrantford•••••• •••• •• •••• • •lot1881 1890 1903155,237 21G.644 288,05796,196 187,716 212,50062,440 03,090 65,00035,900 44,653 52,00531,307 43,72841,353 36,100 20,206 7,985 14,091 5,925IliawhiIwt• • 'moawen poo Fat at I he fa vi Id late mas poin li.sk m n any to V ly si ed b•were entb befo. on jo; good• • •• • • Ml9,010Charlottetown. 11,485Hull ...;..... 6,890Guelph........................9,890St. Thomas ... 8,367Windsor..................6,561’Sherbrooke ...... 7,227Belleville ...... 9,510Stratford ...... ' 8^39St. Catharines 9,631Chatham ...Fiedericton Brandon2,8730,2:8•••fit40,17938,53030,70522.892 18,109 16,000 12,000 14,280 11,374 10.9U0 10,300 10,329 10,5289,92310,1289.892 10,0239,000 6,lt;00 3,50057,00250.00045.0C038.902 42,534 .18,10327.00129.000 16,21512.000 12,000 10,50011.903 12,129 11,100 10,513 10,753 10,300 10,000 7 000 5,338s —612,378 800,9091,000,308... , . • I a longer period than any otner. states-aubject of tobacco's advantages in ,____ ..il. . ... ,J . c ?... man of .this century, with only one ex-THE LONGEST PllEMIERSHIPS.Assuming that Lord Salisbury retains the Premiership he will next year have held, the honourable poai- 4l, tion of Prime Minister of England for astheLn l theberfCouwasnineinandonlyremitheonlythe lt;sbad tie s yearAnnboatthe wea: savi; year ill tit ed it are I is, fc fiedcampaigning. “The war in South Africa,” it says, has taught many things of greater and of less importance.ception, and should he continue in office until the end of the term of the newi Parliament he will have reduced„ . . . ., , , miiuiucui ue win nave reducedPerhaps nothing that it has demon-' aK , _i-a a a. , , , , , , .. even that solitary, outstanding record.arrortx nnQ hi'Pii mam mn i-lro? rn*»r» •etrated haa beeu more marked than the important part jwklch tobacco plays in the soldier's existence. Wheth-oq this is to be reckoned as a great fact or a small one, there can be no doubt about tie truth of it. Yet the Duke of Wellington’s armies had no tobacco! worth speaking of. If they. i * i * l , . ,, Loniusuury a idid not forbid its use, at any rate, the , 0OO ,rN i i j. j. » i | and 328 days.Iron Duke’s officers were directed to jadvise their men strongly against it..What a' curious contrast with the campaigning in South Africa, whereAt present the Earl of Liverpool’s Premiership heads the list, as he remained in office for fourteen years and 319 clays. ; Next comes Mr. Gladstone, with a total, Premiership of twelve years and 137 days, while up to the dissolution of last September Lord Salisbury's record was eleven yearsstud not .a wc oidec whicmarches and privations as long ancf as ^GUREVERSED.Lenders—Whenever I set: eyes onstern as any suffered by our greatgrandfathers were borne by the volunteers and soldiers of to-day with a grumble only when their 'smokes’ failed them. We have it from many who took (pfgrt in] the forced marches lead-J3orroughs—0 ! come, old man, I only win I a fiver” this lime.Lenders—As 1 was . saying, whenever Isut eyes on you it’s like reading the alphabet backward. I always. find ,U after a V.land corn boar i manj ciu.ric a-bsei first founc apen t he eu cuits. testil; fool i you I who t at thi just £ up for
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