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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
THE CIGAR ETTIST.
His future lies behind. He is not grow
ing into a better man. He is not in the
line of evolution. If you want a man
who will train onward and upward flee
the cigarettist as you would a pestilence.
He will surely disappoint you and the
better and brighter your young man, the
faster will be his descent to Avernus.
As a close observer of, and employer of
labor for over twenty-five years, I give
you this: Never advance the pay of a
cigarette smoker. Never promote him.
Never depend upon him to carry a roll
to Gomez, unless you do not care for Go
mez and are willing to lose the roll.
Cigarette smoking begins with an ef
fort. It soon becomes a pleasure a sat
isfaction and it serves to bridge over a
moment of nervousness or embarrass
ment. Next it becomes a necessity of life
a fixed habit. This last stage soon evolves
into a thi d condition a stage of fever
and unrest wandering mind, accom
panied by a loss of moral and mental
control.
The cigarette smoker is not a degener
ate because he smokes cigarettes. Quite
often he is a cigarette smoker because he
is a degenerate. In preparing a culture
bed for vice, do not omit cigarette. Cigar
ettes stupify the conscience, deaden the
brain, place the affections in abeyance
and bring the best to the surface.
Place no confidence in the cigarettist.
Never promise him. He is an irrespon
sible person, a defective. Love him if
you can, pity him if you will, but give
him no chance to clutch you with his
nicotine fingers and drag you beneath
the wave. Elbert Hubbard, in 1 x.
Life is what we make it.
Sign Manual of th.t Child th, t Does
not Change in Life.
There is born with every one of us
and continues unchanged during our
lives an unfailing and ineradicable
mark or marks, which absolutely distin
guish each one of us from every other
fellow being. These physical marks
never change from the cradle to the
grave. This born autograph is impos
sible to counterfeit, and there is no du
plicate of it among the teeming billows
in the world. Look at the inside of
your .hands and the soles of your feet;
closely examine the ends of your fingers.
You see circks and curves and arches
and whorls, some prominent with deep
corrugations, others minute and delicate,
but all a well defined and closely traced
pattern. There is your physiological
signature.
Run your hands through your hair
and press finger tips on a piece of clem
glass. You see all the delicate tracing'
transferred not two fingers alike. Even i
"the left hand knoweth not what the i
right hand doeth." They are distinctly'
different. Even twins may he so little'
different in size, features and general
physical condition as to he scarcely dis-j
tinguishable, yet their finger autograph?'
are radically different.
In fact, in all humanity . every behv
carries with him on his baby fingers and
his wrinkled hand of decrepit old age'
the identical curves, arches and circles;
that were born with him. Nothini
except dismemberment can obliterate or
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disguise them. Criminals may burn ami'
sear their hands, but nature, when slr
restores the cuticle, invariably bring;
back the natal autograph. Ex.