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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s

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87. a distaste for which I have been unable to determine the origin. If anyone else wants to smoke let him do so. It doesn't matter to me because I am quite indifferent as to other peoples habits. There are no morals involved. In our travels, so much smoking was apparent on every hand - women with stogies, pipes and cigarettes. Well, it was rather common! Perhaps I dislike it for my self because with so many people - particularly women - it is an all too obvious affectation. And an affectation is an insincerity; and I have a distaste for pretense. So to be perfectly candid, I suppose one might not smoke in order to be different from the general run of individuals. And as for alcoholic drinks, we didn't have them at home as children. I grew up during the prohibition era and since that time I have had to live with a stomach. These two aren't compatible! Undoubtedly the digestive canal has been responsible in a large measure for my present discriminating taste in foods. Some of my preference certainly has been decided in accordance with the nourishment that agreed and satisfied the fundamental hunger drive. There are of course always the exceptions which may be noted. For instance my love of raised doughnuts has no place in my scheme of diet now. The liking for them may be traced - I believe - back to that early environment where as a child we had them on quite special and gay occasions. The determining factor of a fondness for apples and popcorn may similarly be attributed for its savory connotation back to musical evenings and singing around the piano. To but recall those evenings of wholesome enjoyment leaves a decidedly "pleasant" taste

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87. a distaste for which I have been unable to determine the origin. If anyone else wants to smoke let him do so. It doesn't matter to me because I am quite indifferent as to other peoples habits. There are no morals involved. In our travels, so much smoking was apparent on every hand - women with stogies, pipes and cigarettes. Well, it was rather common! Perhaps I dislike it for my self because with so many people - particularly women - it is an all too obvious affectation. And an affectation is an insincerity; and I have a distaste for pretense. So to be perfectly candid, I suppose one might not smoke in order to be different from the general run of individuals. And as for alcoholic drinks, we didn't have them at home as children. I grew up during the prohibition era and since that time I have had to live with a stomach. These two aren't compatible! Undoubtedly the digestive canal has been responsible in a large measure for my present discriminating taste in foods. Some of my preference certainly has been decided in accordance with the nourishment that agreed and satisfied the fundamental hunger drive. There are of course always the exceptions which may be noted. For instance my love of raised doughnuts has no place in my scheme of diet now. The liking for them may be traced - I believe - back to that early environment where as a child we had them on quite special and gay occasions. The determining factor of a fondness for apples and popcorn may similarly be attributed for its savory connotation back to musical evenings and singing around the piano. To but recall those evenings of wholesome enjoyment leaves a decidedly "pleasant" taste