out coffee.' The tannin of the coffee corrects the
nicotine. And it may not be amiss to learn that a plate of
watercress, salt, and a large glass of cold water should be
at hand to the smoker by day; the watercress corrects any
excess, and is at hand in a garden. Smoke not before
breakfast, nor till an hour has elapsed after a good meal.
Smoke not with or before wine, you destroy the wine-palate.
If you love tea, postpone pipe till after it; no man can
enjoy fine tea who has smoked. In short, smoke not till the
day is done, with all its tasks and duties.

"I have seen men of pretension and position treat carpets
most contumeliously, trampling on the pride of Plato with a
recklessness that would bring a blush to the cheek of
Diogenes himself. Can they forget the absorbent powers of
carpet tissues, and the horrors of next morning to
non-smokers, perhaps to ladies? Surely this is unaesthetic
and illiberal: it is in an old man most pitiable, in a young
one intolerable, in a scholar inexcusable, from an
uncleanness that seems willful. Let the young philosopher
avoid such practice, and give a wide berth to those who
follow them. Take the following rules, tyro, _meo
periculo_:--

1. Never smoke when the pores are open: they absorb, and you
are unfit for decent society. Be it your study ever to
escape the noses of strangers. First impressions are
sometimes permanent, and you may lose a useful acquaintance.

2. Learn to smoke slowly. Cultivate 'calm and intermittent
puffs.'--_Walter Scott._

3. On the first symptom of expectoration lay down the pipe,
or throw away the cigar; long-continued expectoration is
destructive to yourself and revolting to every spectator.

4. Let an interval elapse between the filling of succeeding
pipes.

5. Clean your tube regularly, and your amber mouthpiece with
a feather dipped in spirits of lavender. Never suffer the
conduit to remain discolored or stuffed.

6. A German receiver can be washed out like a teacup, and
the oil collected is of value, but a meerschaum should never
be wetted. A small sponge at the end of a wire dipped in
sweet oil should be used carefully and persistently round
and round, coaxing out any hard concretions, till the inside
be smooth in its dark polished grain, o