The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-25
Mrs. s.Russell Sage
 ">. And Her Opinions

and clothing steeped in stale tobacco
 smoke. She declared she could not en-
 dure tobacco smoke and would never att
 tend such another unholy exploitation of
 the pilgrim mothers memory.
 The smoker inebriate Is Mrs. Sage's
 especial aversion. She nas be-
 lieve that smoking is the main cause of
 the inefficiency of many men. Smoking has a soporific effect and the men sit
 and dream and are lulled into forgetful-
 ness of what should most interest them" '"
 The Title lady with the decided mouth
 clinche0 her opinions with an illustration
 most forceful. There was among the governors of the Woman's hospital at one time the now exploded superstitition
 that a man superintendent was necessary
 in order that his authority should be re- spected; that a woman would not be obeyed by the employees. Accordingly,
 the flag of the superintendent masculine | waved over the Wonan's hospital. There began to be serious complaint. The gem tleman superintendent did not get his breakfast until half past s, serious mis- demeanor in the estimation of the early | stirring Mrs Sage, with her New Eng land habits of activity. Then, after his ] luxurious S:3O breakfast, the gentleman superintendent shut himself up in his rooms and ''smoked for an indefinite time, during which nobody could get at him for | anything"
 Affairs began to go so badly that the mans resignation was at length accept ed and a woman was put in his place After that, Mrs. Sage says. expenses were reduced one-third. everything was kept exouisitely neat and the patients were
 suplied with dainties that mean so much l to an invalid and that a womans mind
 always suggests.
 One more object lesson on the smoking | habit Mrs. Sage gives. relative of her
 own was seized with mortal illness at a | hotel and two men nurses were hired. l They kept the room of that dying man | foul and saturated with tobacco smoke. | If a visitor opened the door unexpectedly the man nurse was usually found lying upon A couch with a cigar and newspaper, reposinR and smoking till perhaps a Rroan from the patient recalled him to a sense of what he was there for. Mrs. SaRe's words are clean cut and to the point, and she does not use too many. | She would have made jolly good news paper woman if she could nave repressed somewhat that sharply critical spirit of hers. She concludes the account or the men nurses with this moral;
 | "LJad those nurses been women they | u,ouId have attended to things consci- entiously. The room would have been kent neat. quiet and untainted With cigar srnole They would sea cely have left tba bedside A moment. Their sympathy
 w,ould have heen enlisted for the sufferer, ! and they would have striven to afford him comfort in his last illness
 Unusually the more ignorant an indi-
 ,,,dnaI Ia the more opinions that person
 sTnresses on things he does not know aho,,t Mrs. Sage Is an exception. She
 has more opinions to the square inch of
 her brain pan than almost any other in
 te.ligent lady of her time: ana sne speaks
 hnnarzo for the newspaper interviewer. ond sbe always has something racy and 1 ;nta-est,ng to say. Whatever does not
 square itself with her Puritan conscience
 sbe does not hesitate to oppose forcibly,