The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Matrimony (With a Pipe in it)

R. O. S. "Matrimony (With a Pipe in it)." Saturday Press, December 11, 1858, 2.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
play
Abstract

This story, which begins as a dialog, introduces the main character's fondness for smoking, his unwillingness to give it up for a woman, and his later discovery of the "art of cheap smoking" (2).

People Mentioned in this Work
The Saturday Press [pages: 2]

The note that appears at the beginning of the column mentions that every story which has previously appeared in the Saturday Press has included the smoking of a pipe or more of tobacco and that this story does not deviate from the pattern.