WINE,

AND

WOMEN AS THEY ARE

BY

A MODERN EPICUREAN.

LONDON:

KENT AND RICHARDS,

51 AND 52, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1949.

CIGARS AND TOBACCO.

"Miss Tox. You won't mind me;-you'll make yourself quite at home, won't you, Mr. Toodle ?'

"MR. TOODLE.-Thankee, mam, I'll take my bit of baccy.'"

Dombey and Son.

makes even the dullest of us something better than we otherwise would have been. "The fact is, squire," says Sam moment a man takes to a pipe, philosopher; it is the poor ma calms the mind, sooth makes a man patient You may talk about and Christian res sort of thing, till y and heard tell of it an instance yet w little grain heavy or Philosify is like most it likes to visit them and though it has son it a'nt more nor ha walkin' lock and lo smokin'- -"Here interrupted, and the int the force and beauty of There are some thi remembered without Memoria Technica. Th on of tobacco is

custom of smoking spread as wildfire. It was no sooner introduced than it became universal. King James, in that most foolish and illogical performance ever penned by al pen, the Counterblast, estimates that gentlemen spent three or four hundred n smoke. This was long before the ement of our present enormous smoke, at that time, was consime and edifying, good both the mind of man.

of the custom appears

r the Universal Mediof the wonderful

Everard. 1659."

co, and mainis almost as who they are moking, and

will be sup

ges. Solall night, cold and

ghmen,