The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-13

scented cigarettes gaining fresh re-
cruits every day among the women of
Washington; not only the matron, but
the debutante must and does have her
cigarette. The doctors say stop-in fact if
they had known in time, they would
doubtless have said, don't begin"
Women Likely to Suffer-
The local medical view Is that the
Physiological makeup of woman indi-
Gates the probability of her suffering in
jury from the use of tobacco to be even
greater than it Is in the case OF man
smokers. Woman's organization, being
the more delicate and sensitive of the
two Is more liable to impresslons-good
or the reverse.
The effects of tobacco remain in the
system; they are cumulative, and if we
take the case of the very young woman
who INDUCES in her cigarette, it will tie
seen that she is simply, storing up in her
system what will finally prove a handicap
on her forces of Physical resistance at u
future period of her life when she will
most need them.
The young woman-the society oebu-
tante-who must be in the swim-who
must copy her elder sisters in what they
do-above all in anything they do that
is of risque nature, becomes a smoker
at first through love of imitation and con-
t1nues one because she has grown to like
the sensation of smoking.
Maternity is probably before her-cer-
tainly she in most cases looks forward to
getting married at some time. Meanwhile
she becomes an habitual smoker. Thus
the effect of the indulgence being, as has
been said, cumulative, by the arrival OF
the period when she marries, and in 1he
course of natural events becomes
mother, she finds that instead of having
husbanded her physical resources she has
weakened her heart, impaired her circuIa-
ton and inflicted upon herself nerves
Strain Is Abnormal.
Under these conditions she is confronted
with the necessity of supporting the abb
normal strain upon her system conse
quent upon motherhood while the ae~
cumulated injurious effects of her years
OF indulgence in tobacco oppose her eff
forts or resistance like a battalion of or
ganized enemies-wIich is just what they
actually are.
Then there is another side to the ques-
ton. Is she liable to transmit to her off
spring the evil consequences from which
she suffers herself-in other words, VIII
the tribe of smoking women produce not
only race of weaker descendants, but
are they also likely to transmit the pas
sion for nicotine as that for alcohol is
transmitted from parents to children!
VIII the woman smoker perpetuate the
boy cigarette fiend in-tthe community?
If she is likely to do sos zthen we are face
to face with a problem altogether more
serious than any Whieh-is offered or sug-
gested by the existence of mere passing
society fad l~7 fs
But here arises another question. Is
smoking in society circles to be regarded
In the light of a passing fad? Or has it
rather not only come to stay, but to
stay with steady increase in the num-
Der of it's devoteeS?
1t seems quite likely. that the latter
question is to be anskered in the af-
frmative. Because while we began by
saying that woman smokers are no new
thing, we also commented on the fact
that the English women's cigarette has
become permanent institution and that
today the habit is gaining greater popu-
larity and becoming more widespread.
Many other fads have come, and had
their day. and gone the way Of passing
things. to be known no more among US.
The cigarette for women; however. is net,
1t seems, to be numbered among these.
Queen Elizabeth smoker.
Queen Elizabeth became a smoker
through curiosity, that peculiarly fem