mortified to have been seen by his employers
and associates with slovenly dress; but now baggy trousers, unblackened
shoes, soiled linen, frayed neck-tie do not trouble him.

He is not quite as conscientious about his work as he used to be. He
can leave a half-finished job, and cut his hours and rob his employer a
little here and there without being troubled seriously. He can write a
slipshod letter. He isn't particular about his spelling, punctuation,
or handwriting, as formerly. He doesn't mind a little deceit.

Vulgarity no longer shocks him. He does not blush at the unclean test.
Womanhood is not as sacred to him as in his innocent days. He does not
reverence women as formerly; and he finds himself laughing at the
coarse jest and the common remarks about them among his associates,
when once he would have resented and turned away in disgust.

Dr. Lewis Bremer, late physician at St. Vincent's Institute for the
Insane says, "Basing my opinion upon my experience gained in private
sanitariums and hospitals, I will broadly state that the boy who smokes
cigarettes at seven will drink whisky at fourteen, take morphine at
twenty-five, and wind up at thirty with cocaine and the rest of the
narcotics."

The saddest effects of cigarette smoking are mental. The physical
signs of deterioration have their mental correspondencies. Sir William
Hamilton said: "There is nothing great in matter but man; there is
nothing great in man but mind." The cigarette smoker takes man's
distinguishing faculty and uncrowns it. He "puts an enemy in his mouth
to steal away his brains."

Anything which impairs one's success capital, which cuts down his
achievement and makes him a possible failure when he might have been a
grand success, is a crime against him. Anything which benumbs the
senses, deadens the sensibilities, dulls the mental faculties, and
takes the edge off one's ability, is a deadly enemy, and there is
nothing else which effects all this so quickly as the cigarette. It is
said that within the past fifty years not a student at Harvard
University who used tobacco has been graduated at the head of his
class, although, on the average, five out of six use tobacco.

The symptoms of a cigarette victim resembles those of an opium eater.
A gradual deadening, benumbing influence creeps all through the mental
and moral faculties; the standards all drop to a lower level; the whole
average of life is cut down, the victim loses th