The Washington critic., 1889-05-31
NO REFORM, NO MARRIAGE.

The newspapers, we observe, are un-
gallant enough to speak lightly of our
DR.. Caroline Winslow, who is opposed
to what she calls tobacco inebriation," !"
and who recently, with that eloquence
for which she, Gladstone and some
others are so Justly famous, demanded
that "the young women of the land
shall set their feet down and say: We
will not marry tobacco, inebriate.' "
Especially hippant in its comment is
that graceless and abandoned journal,
the Chicago Herald Says the reckless
sheet;
IL is TO be granted that an old man, sat.
urated with tobacco, ard having no particu-
lar concern for anything but his pipe and his
paper, Is no, an admirable creature and the
person who marries him takes him at her
own risk. Upon this branch of the case there
Is nothing to be said. But the young man
whose mind is lightly turned to thoughts of
love, and who, dressed in brave attire, throws
his cigar away as be ascends the steps where
true love dwells, is not to be considered alto
pether as an object of contempt. DR.. Wins.
low recommends that the young women
should put their feet down" on such per-
sons, but everyone can see that, aside from
tie inn lroprlety, II would be entirely futile.
DR.. Ninslow forgets apparently, though
she certainly ought to know It, that there are
as many young women desrous of being pro-
posed TO as there are young men desirous of
proposing This Is a workaday world where
men and women have to take their chances
In marriage much as they take their chances
in other things. The woman who commences
married life by debating to her husband
what he shall or shall not do will probably
wind up in the divorce court It would be
far better If Dr.. Wnslow would devote her
powerful mind to the propagation of the idea
that In marriage true happiness consists In
mutual forbearance. II is an unfortunate
fact that women have foibes as well as men,
ard that TO endure such folbles requires as
much patience on the part Of husbands as
wives have to undergo from tobacco. The
fumes OF the pipe or cigar are not always
pleasant but there are other domestic fumes
quite as dsagreeabe. Meantime there will
not be marriage the less on account Of the
teaching of DR.. Wnslow.
The gross absurdity of the Chicago
Herdid's position will be evident at a
glance, Its reasoning is, it is true,
sufficiently logical, but il overlooks one
broad, basic fact, and the whole struc-
tme Of argument it rears falls like card
board. II ranks with other people
those refomers Of the female sex who
announce from the platform what
should or should not be. II commits
the hideous blunder of supposing that
they are not an authority unto them
selves and that it will ever result in
anything when the soundness of their
premises is questioned They are
right, they know they are right, and
we defy anybody to prove they are not
right. Therefore our Mrs, Winslow Is
right.
This journal is committed uncom.
promislngly to the cause of no marriage
or reform, and no such ribald comment
as that of the Chicago Herald shall pass
unnotlced.
Johnny, my boy, run down to the
cigar store on ID street just beyond the
Posi- building, and tell the man TO send
mp couple of Hermonas, two for a
quarter, medium.