It dots more ; it closes tbedrawingroom. Formerly people conversed after dinner. Men and women assembled round the same lamp, went through a course of mutual instruction. The men initiated the women into intel lectual life; the women tnught the men the graceful arts of pleasing. Both parties were gainers by tbe bargain. It j was free exchange In all ils splendor. Bat, as a well- bred woman cannot con vert her drawing room into a pot-house, every creature who wears or might wear a moustache takes his departure at the earliest occasion and goes into male society where he can smoke at ease. lolling back with his lees on the chimney piece. Every evening La Jcunc»«c Doric takes practical lessons in cynicism. Now and then an elegante, moving in cond society, in decpair at the cigar's severing humanity in tno and condemning her to a life of conversational celibacy, endeavors lo retain the deserters by opening a BKioking-room in her mansion, and herself setting the example with a cigarette. But tobacco has a fuller flavor in an equivocal than in a respectable bouse. There, at least, it can be moistened with beer and brandy. And thus a stinking West Indian plant, burnt in the human gullet, banishes the wioe-glass more and more. Neither the perfumed produce of Medoc nor the electric vintages of Uurgundy retain their hold on (he smoktr's palate. The unhappy wretch plunges his lips in a frothy and bitter decoction of hops, or swallows a glass of kirech at a pulp, which is one way as good an another of firing a pistol into one's mouth. Smoking, like dram-drink ing, is the cons', quence of having nothing to do, of disenchantment of the heart and

mind. A prisoner of ttate alleged, " Be fore entering my cell, I was innocent of tobacco; but I learned to smoke under bolts and bars, to beguile the weariness of solitude." The increasing consumption of tobacco is frightful. Children ten year* of aj?e already smoke. Hut it it time to think of a remedy. Tobacco is a potion—a clow one, if you will—but certainly a poison; for it benumbs the brain, extinguishes the memory, brings on giddiness, and finally engenders those horrible diseases, cancer in the mouth nnd softening of the ppinal marrow. When it does not kill totally, it kills partially. 