Does it pay to smoke? / by an old smoker.

  • James Parton
Date:
[1872?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Does it pay to smoke? / by an old smoker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is presented the melancholy spectacle of an ex¬ travagant hussy marring, perhaps spoiling, the career of her husband by tasteless and unprincipled expenditures in the decoration of her person. But is it wholly her fault ? Is he not the purse-holder ? Is it not a husband’s duty to prevent his wife from dishonouring herself in that manner ? When men are sensual, women will be frivolous. When men abandon their homes and all the noble pleasures of society in order to herd together in clubs and smoking-rooms, what right have they to object if the ladies amuse themselves in the only innocent way accessible to them ? The wonder is that they confine themselves to the innocent delights of the toilet. A husband who spends one day and seven evenings of every week at his club, ought to expect that his wife will provide herself both with fine clothes and some one who will admire them! Besides, for one woman who shocks us by wasting upon her person an undue part of the family resources, there are ten who astonish us by the delightful results which their taste and ingenuity contrive out of next to nothing. It would be absurd to say that smoking is the cause of evils which originate in the weakness and imperfection of human nature. The point is
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