Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-20
FEMALE ouM-cHEwro.
Bob BurdotPs Eioou.,,
Men nf Ff0a Ia ,

appeal
m, eh oil America. % TIE
There is a well-dressed 1.
looking, rather pretty won,s 'gent
got on the train n, away back \, She
lana Mo VI, That was nearly ta", LOUIS.
ago She was chewing ~ hours
.'swee' gum when she cot ~, lump d
She has been chewing av w. .he car.
She is working away at it nov s'n ,,
Is no child; she is forty wears W. I, She
aday. Bat she wals and or, mn sae .
champs that gum like INV ness AMI
She talks all the time, too " Pn
awhile she hypenales a lone ~. onee ID
vigorous "chaw." She p,,no "W 'h
her sentences with that pum' YES
gives one-sided. italic ..eha,v ohs
comma, square. fat-sideJ ~
with the roof of her mouth f,r a sa'
colon, and when she makes i fl, Isslal'
she deity losses the wad fron sop
cheek to III other with her nran ''' one
tongue. That woman's laws n,,'a,
made OF steel 1t is madiening to .
them in the full play Of tall = . see
"chaw,' but there is a stranga ="
nation about it. Yon 'a'c,'
help watching her a,n,s o"n
You dlead-or possibly nr"v 'sn
see the promonitory symptoms ~ ~ ~
Jaw. Bat there is n, danger Tt
huck-Jaw has no show; II cant -. .''s
chance for an opening. The % 80
forces the fighting and her busv J lam
never rest'f'r- "a sscoa d., 1t. is n, ias
to no'ioc the desp rate efforts Of H..
companion. a poor weak. frai, No.,
to get in word once in awhile II
isn't in it, at all. don't know vIi.
he wants to say. but think he il lryins
to give her his dying Blessing. Tberss
he is steallhily putting someihipg in,a
his mouth. l Gu see that Il !, 49,
gum" til nix it is sirychnine p,o.
man. he will be happier in a few hours
Either the strychrine will kin HIM,
that woman will talk herself tn doan,
Women who chew gum sbonld /.
compelled to ride in the smokino.c,r
The habit may lack some of tha dis,.
greeable features of tobacco chewing
but it is vastly more irritating. r..
cause the man who chews tobacco does
stop sometimes. His Jaws ache AMI
grow tired, and he stops to rast
And sometimes to breathe. And
to cat. And to drink. RAT
the woman who chews gum
in public stops for none of these trj0 Il
She chews right along till her teeth
fall out. or by some terrific conyuIsi,n
of nature or act of Providence she
swallows the gum. Then she wres,s
another wad from one of the CHILDREN
cracks on the steam until she ha,
caught up lost time, aad goes ahead
the rest of the day on schedule time
with no stops for coil or water The
''swee' gum" habit is terrible bond.
age. Its victim l,scs certain sense
of delicacy. She doesn't care how
wide she opens her mouth, how many
times a second, nor how many people
are looking at her in amazament, sor.
row and pity. Her little children cry
for swee gum. but the heartless
mother, hardened by long indulgence
in the terrible habit, will not divide
her quid with her waiting babes. IL
as it sometimes happens, after pre-
longed indulgence-that is after a
eady chew for say four OF five
months-exhausted nature 9 vas WY
and she is compelled to rest her
rara'yzad jaws flr five or six
minutes, she will not even give
her quid to one of the children to keep
it warm for her. She has secret
hiding place on the back of a chair or
the heau-boarI of the bed where she
tastes il. Sometimes, being thus sud-
,lenly deprived of the long accustomed
Itimula1t, she dies before she can find
aga'n and her friends discover all
too late, tile cause of her death drlel
M again st the wall in some dark Sc
rret nook. hard as a pebble. o. men
America. Men with human hearts!
Men with homes to defend and rent to
nay! Brothers, sons, sorrowing faith
rs and heart broken hus bands, let us
hasten to the rescu, of our sisters,
our daughters, our wives! Let Us
wrcst the women of this fair land
from the grasp OF this destroyer OF
let us, rather. wrest the destroyer
from the wam,n, if we have to break
',cr j w in the attempt!-BWi t'e' "
Brooklyn Eng e.