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BOYS ORDERED TO issued to the army an order stated to the left as well, when the

SMOKE.

driver operated a switch, the ing':

The Commander-in-Chief has favourite plan being to use twin- been informed that the practice | filament bulbs in which one fila" of smoking by the use of pipes,ment afforded the normal driving Some Strange Tales of cigars, or cheroots, has become light and the other the anti-

Tobacco.

THE PIPE OF DEATH.

If James I had had his way, the price of tobacco would not have been increased in Britain recently, Bismarck would have been robbed of

many of his diplomatic victories, and Ameri- ea would not have won the war! All this, and much more, we are able to glean from "A His tory of Smoking," by Count Corti, (Harrap, 12s. 6d.)

James 1. tried to suppress smoking in England. "Shall we, I say, without blushing, abase ourselves so farre as to imitate these beastly Indians?" he ask-

ed.

dazzle light,

prevalent among the officers of

It is expected, of course, that the Army, which is not only in itself a species of intoxication before long there will be official occasioned by the fumes of to control of headlamps, and draft bacco, but, undoubtedly, occa- regulations are, in fact, already sions drinking and tippling by in existence. The R.A.C. hoped those who acquire th ehabit; and by the demonstration at Cam- he entreats the Officers command-bridge to show the Ministry of ing Regiments to prevent smok- Transport that there is a multi- ing in the Mess Rooms of their tude of different ways and means several Regiments, and in the for eliminating dazzle, and in adjoining apartments, and to this respect they were certainly

The general} discourage the practice among most. successful. the Officers of Junior Rank in impression gained was, however, their Regiments."

that taking them all round, the various notions exhibited went

In the late war General Pershing rated smoking highly.to

Tobacco is as indispensable as the daily ration," he once cabled to Washington. "We must have thousands of tons of it without delay."

But to the great content of

An increase of smoking fol- Finance Ministers of many na-lows every great war. In 1914, tions in the succeeding centuries the annual consumption of cigar- he failed, nor were the efforts ofettes in England averaged 201 Chairles I. and Cromwell any per head of population. By 1927 more successful.

it had risen to 811. In Germany

But the smoker's path has not the pre-war consumption was been an easy one. Popes. Em-195 and in 1927, 502. The fig- perors, and Tsara have fulmin-ures for the United States are ated against the fragrant weed still more remarkable, increasing and its users have been fined, from 148 before the war to, 798 imprisoned, flogged and even thirteen years later. slain.

His Last Pipe.

As a plant of healing, tobacco originated among the Mayans and Aztecs of Central America, who used it ceremonially.

ANTI-DAZZLE INVENTION.

Extraordinary enthusiasm was shown by the inventors of anti- dazzle appliances who took part

show that the anti-dazzle were under the devices which control of the driver afforded a better driving light than those which were permanently of an anti-dazzle" nature.

LUXURY LINER.

Wireless Telephone Facilities.

The new luxury liner Monarch of Bermuds, which will take her place on the New York Bermuda run when she is completed, is to be equipped with special Marconi wireless telo- phone apparatus and also a band ro- peater and music playing installa- tion.

of

The two wireless telephona sta- tions with which the ship will nor mally communicate will be at New One Aztec custom was to electin-an R.A.C. demonstration held York and Bermuda and through a youth annually as the incar- on Mid-summer Common, Cam- these stations the ship will be link- Noed with the telephone systems of nation of one of their deities. bridge, during mail week.

fewer than 85 different kinds of the world. Bermuda He lived for twelve months in a

already blaze of splendour, with the fair- anti-dázzle device were exhibit possesses a very efficient wireless est maidens in the land for hised. The large majority of these telegraph service with the North companions, only to be sacrificed | appliances were of the non-American continent and the West to the god at the expiration of manual type; that is to say, they Indies, and wireless telephone ap- his reign, when, amid dancers, aimed at making the head-lamp paratus, operating on the Marconi flute-playing and the eloquence beams non-dazzling yet suf-beam system, is being installed to of orators, his last duty was to fielently effective to provide provide telephone subscribers smoke a pipe of tobacco to the safe driving light. Many and the Island with an equally efficient glory of the gods and the happi-varied were the ways and means wireless telephone service to New ness of mankind,

for bringing this about. The York and ships at sea. most practical to the lay eye, At New York telephone calls says one report, took the form from Bermuda and from ships at of polished, curved, metal shades, sea can be connected to the tele- which fitted on the front of the phone systems of the world. These headlamps and projected For-facilities will be greatly appreciat In the latter part of the seven-

wards several inches in such aed

and by business travellers teenth century first one and then way that the eyes of approach-tourists who will thus be able to another country of Europe laying drivers would be protected. keep in constant wireless telephone under the terror, of the plague. In three or four other cases touch with New York from the ship. Great cities suffered especially simple mechanical contrivances and from land when they visit -as London did in June, 1666. of this kind were in evidence, | Bermuda. Physicians were helpless to stop but the majority of permanently the mortality; for lack of any non-dazzling lamps employed better remedy they recommend elaborate optical tricks to obtain ed smelling, chewing or contin- the necessary shallow flat-topped ually smoking tobacco.

beam, the line of attack some- times being the reflector, some- times the front glass and some- times the bulb.

From these early days down to modern times the sale of to- bacco has been stimulated by a belief that it gives protection Crom infectious diseases.

Tobacco in War.

AMBITION.

It must be nice to be a man, To do the things that Daddy can!

To take a brán new wireless set,

and turn it inside out.

One of the most spectacular of the ideas took the form of twin headlamp glasses separated by a And not get blamed for leaving small space into which coloured all your tools and things about, liquid could be introduced like To spend a lovely messy time in the racat in a sandwich. Used cleaning out the shed,

The boys at Eton had to smoke every morning as a means of disinfecting themselves, and doc- tors, including the then famous Richard Barker, earnestly re commended tobacco, since he and others thought they had no ticed that in former oubreaks of for headlamp glasses, this iden-Or else de-carbonishing cars- disease tobacco dealers in their enables the driver with the aid and not get sent to bed. shops had escaped, Pepys bears of a small pump to make his To squelch about with yards of witness to this practice in his headlamps innocuous to other hose around the garage yard, Diary.

road users while, used for the Or burn a lot of leaves and sticks, and say you're working hard! The history of tobacco is windscreen, it would enable him

your cost and hat and closely related to that of war. to protect himself against the To leave

gloves just lying in the hall, Napoleon tried to quiet his glare of the lamps of other cars. nerves during a campaign by an Of the manual anti-dazzle devices And smoke from breakfast time till enormous consumption of cigar-which were on view the majority ettes. Wellington, on the other caused the headlamp beams to be Oh, dear, I wish I were a mán, hand, was a non-smoker, and dipped, and in some cases deflect- To do the things that Daddy cánl

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When you are out of sorts remember:

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