STRAINED THROUGH LIQUOR FUMES AND TOBACCO SMOKE.
By T. E. Bowen
IN an interview with G. Bernard Shaw, in London, he spoke of the way most of the literature of the day is produced, so eagerly perused on boat, and train, and everywhere, by the young and others. He says:— "They write in town at night. First they poison themselves with alcohol and tobacco, drinking and smoking at their dinner; then they go into their studies, draw the blinds, turn on the light, and work. The consequence is that almost all of modern literature is drunken. The taint of tobacco, of wine, of meat-eating runs right through it." Is it any wonder we have such a low class of literature, when thoughts are strained through liquor, tobacco, and meat-beclouded minds? Who desires to feed upon such mind products? Let those especially who select reading for the youth, cut out with strict censorship such soul-and-mind destroying products. T. E. BOWEN.