p. 192 | A Growing Nuisance by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 19, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 12.

A Growing Nuisance.

By Editor

LAST Sunday morning we met two ladies and a gentleman (?) on the sidewalk, on their way to church, and the male of the trio had a cigar in his mouth. We were partly to the windward, and entirely to the ladyward of the smoker, yet the fumes were stifling. Whereunto will this tobacco nuisance grow? We expect to see, at no distant day, the large and fashionable churches fitted up with a smoking room! After the opening exercises there would be a fine opportunity for the "gents" to retire for a smoke while the collection plates were being passed. And if the minister read his essay beyond the fashionable limit of thirty-two minutes, he might be reminded of his imprudence by the smokers' retiring to their room. There is chance for considerable improvement yet in this direction.