There are the Japanese fans on the wall, which are things of beauty, though your artistic taste may not be sufficiently educated to let you know it except by hearsay; and it is pleasant to feel that they were bought with money which, in the foolish old days, would have been squandered on a box of cigars.

In like manner every pretty trifle in the room reminds you how much wiser you are now than you used to be.

It is even gratifying to stand in summer at the drawing-room window and watch the very cabbies passing with cigars in their mouths.

At the same time, if I had the making of the laws I would prohibit people's smoking in the street.

If they are married men, they are smoking drawing-room fire-screens and mantelpiece borders for the pink-and-gold room.