The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-12-09
EemalA Smokers.


Many women fancy that woman suf-
rage IS going to abolish mans political
and moral vices by force of election and
legislation. All this work Of the magma
ton IS OF the same sort as the fancy that
the freed woman's chief object will be to
please man. A robust minded view is
that emancipation is to free woman from
all the restraints which servitude has
kept upon her conduct, and that she will
enjoy her freedom in the way that man
does. And when emancipation shall
have brought equality, it is analogical to
conclude that when Darwin has pointed
out in that lower stage of development
in which the French savant finds equality
of the sexes will be restored In the high
stage, and that the male will be that seq
in which the desire to be agreeable
to the opposite sex shall be the chief
motive.
A false assumption is that woman will
not be attractive to man If she smokes.
Why not, if the man smokes? If they
enjoy it, as they pretend, why deny the
enjoyment to women That which they
keep in their own mouths they cannot
call unclean in others. He whose mouth
is odorous with tobacco can have nc
sensltiveness as to the same odor in
IN other mouths. Kissing is an ex-
change of endearments peculiar to hui
man kind. It is current coin of the
newly married. If the mans lips are
reeking with tobacco, shall not the kiss
have stronger zest if the woman's lips
exhale the same flavor ? Does henot
need this strong flavor to reach his own
highly favored sensibility
Ii tobacco tanned lips be repulsive.
the wife needs to tan hers in the same
way in self-defense. The married state
is leveler. One of the twain, who are
now one flesh, can not continue delicate
if the other ia coarse. In many ways
they become, in fact, as in the marriage
theory. The wife of a smoking man car
have no reason of cleanliness or delicacy
towards him to keep her from smoking.
He who smokes or chews can have nc
delicacy to be revolted by smoking OF
chewing woman.
This distinction is not seen in the
lower civilization liz badge of woman's
inferior state. She means not to rest
until she has overthrown all marks Of
her slavery. Smoking is social indul
gence why forbid it to her who makes
social happiness? Women have to take
the most of all that is unwholesome il
the use of tobacco by men why not
compensate them by sharing whatever
there is of enjoyment ? Beside the pro
pensity of woman, from very early
period of her existence, has been to de
sire whatever was forbidden. Smoking
looks like enjoyment. This is the CHIEF
propagation This temptation is continu.
ally before women.
But the question will be decided by
women, according to her own sweet will
It will enter into the claim of equa
rights, and when thus the abstaining
comes to be associated with denial O.
rights, she will smoke to assert hel
equality. When women have puncturet
the dam of a great flood by claiming
rights. When the question takes the
shape Of the right to smoke, there is nt
question. When women shall be really
emancipated, she will act upon this mat
ter according to her own will, freed from
those rules of conduct which are the
chains of her slavery, and relieved from
any necessity to consider whether it viii
make her less agreeable to the man.
Smoking has a convenience which
woman needs as much as man. 1t is o
habit of stimulation which is exempt
from the reproach of intemperance. A
cigar is q stronge than dram
but he who takes daily drains is called {
topper. One may keep his brain fuddlec
all the while with tobacco; may be sc
subject to it that if he misses his cigar
pipe or cud, he runs down, as the topel
when he misses his stated dram, anc
yet, be not subject for the temperance
crusaders; may himself be crusader
Here is way in which women may gel
share of that incessant stimulation
which seems a necessity to men. With
unlimited cigars, and those positive
nerve sti1nulants, tea, and coffee, they
will have not bad chance. The rest
will come with the expansion of theil
minds by freedom. - Cincinnati Gazette.