Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-02-03

GuppOo6 yOug MISS America
begin the crusade. Talk to your girl friends about
1t, aud think over the best way to conduct the
campaign.
Avoid the aggressive methods. We do not need
Carrie Nations in reform work. Her principles may
he right, bat her course OF procedure is unWise.
Arbitration is better than war, remember.
Try arbitration with the boys. Urge them TO
give up smoking until they are twentyOne.
Suggest saving bank fund for the money spent
daily In cigarettes
Ask the boys to figure up the monthly cost Of the
habit and little or much, bank 1t and to let it draw
interest until they reach the voting age.
Then, II smoking seems desirable to them, they
will have fund to draw on for the purchase OF the
best cigars.
Do not preach to the boys Talk sense instead.
Tell them that ell statistics 90 TO prove that the
cigarette habit Injuries q growing boy physically,
mentally, mOrally-One or ell three ways without
exception.
Write to the Anti.Cigarette League, and ask for
literature on the subject. Read up and post your
self with facts. Ask the Y. M. @. A. for address.
Then talk these facts ia a matterOffact manner to
the boys.
Do not make them think that you consider the
habit great crime. Many lad loves the idea Of
having young girls regard him as desperate Grim
inak
Convince the boys instead that you think it an
evidence Of lack Of manly strength Of character but
rather oi Stiffness and weakness. The boy Who in
duges in tie cigarette habit Is about as manly as
the small child who fills himself With hard green
apples il spite Of all bis elders say and in spite Of
the results be has seen this diet produced on other
small children.
Tell your bog friends that Il will be less pleas
ing to them to be compared to urchns in kilt skirts
than to hardened braVadOes In sOmbrerO hats and
high boots.
Make them understand that you admire boy Who
sets bic mark toward Well-develOped and robust
manhood.
Praise TIE athletic and healthy boys. the bows
whose eyes, teeth, complexion, breath, digestion,
nerves and finger tips all in good order and able
TO bear Investigation IL . physician we're suddenly
asked 20 give = diagnOsis
When g0u Zee boy WhOscan be praised il ali
these respects rest assured he does not use cigarettes
Make Jour boy friends who do not smoke specially
conscious Of your approval.
Speak frequently Of the facts lat stunted bodies
and brains and indigestion and consumption and
insanity all produced by indulgence il the cga-
rette he0f before the system has finished It's work
Of development. And ridicule the silly boys who
imagine 6 Il proof Of manliness to acquire the
habit: Eo boy living likes ridicule.
You have more influence with the growing gener-
alton Of boys than al the mothers ID the land. e
ought nof = be 3 fact, but il is.
II nolhegs began right and kept close beside their
sons lives n the daily and hourly associations OF
expanding thought, your influence would not equal
that Of the mothers. But rs itis you WELD strong
er sway. Use It wisely and we'll.
Be taetful sc well ag wholesome and moral. Be
sensible and good natuTed and liberal, and do not
let your boy friend think YOu demand perfection
from them. But let them know yOu expect common
sense, and assure them that in your opinion the boy
who smokes before he is tWentyone does not possess
It,