A TALK WITH YOUNG MEN

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 10, 1887

A TALK WITH YOUNG MEN.

OBSERVE that pale young fellow crossing the street. You see a good many of that kind just now. Some folks say it is the climate. The truth is, that the climate of America, with a fair chance, produces not only the best complexion but the best health in the world.

Did you notice the thing he was carrying in his mouth? Well, it is that meerschaum that is doing the business for him. It is busy with three million of our men. Let us study one of those meerschaum-suckers. We will take a young man. He shall have money and plenty of time for sucking. Pale, nervous, irritable, thin in chest and stomach, weak in muscle, he is fast losing the power of thought and application. Let us get near enough to him to smell of him! Even the beast of prey will not touch the corpse of a soldier saturated with the vile poison. Chewing is the nastiest mode, snuffing ruins the voice, but smoking, among those who have time to be thorough, is most destructive.

Young K— graduated at Harvard (no devotee of the weed has ever graduated with the highest honors at that institution), and soon after consulted his physician with reference to his pale face, emaciation, indigestion, and low spirits. He weighed but one hundred and eight.

"Stop smoking," was the prescription. In four months he had increased twenty-eight pounds, and become clear and healthy in skin, his digestion all right, and his spirits restored. One or two million of our young and middle-aged men are in a similar condition, and would be restored to health and spirits by the same prescription.—Home Science.