The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-07
Feminine
Snapshots
Have You Ever Noticed
the Smokers MOuth2

1t is said that the smoking habit is
rapidly increasing among fashionable
women. If so, this Is sadly to be re-
GREETED, for then the feminine face,
with its mobile features, will rapidly
manifest the smokers mouth. This
smokers mouth is undoubted and un-
mistakable among men who are slaves
to pipe and cigar The tobacco smok-
ing habit among the masculine sex has
increased so greatly Of recent years
that in some cases it is actually stew
ing mems brains and making them
dopy, saying nothing Of the dread dis
ease Of cancer that sometimes devel-
ops upon the tobacco smoking slaves
tongue or mouth. l have been travel
ing on the New York city elevated
trains now for q number Of years.
meanwhile keeping my eyes open. The
Incorporate smoking of tobacco has in
creased certainly so per cent among
men within few years, and it is i'm
printing upon the countenanceS Of
Americans the fixed smokers mouth.
1t is not beautiful mouth, nor does
the odor the besoaked tobacco victim
carries about him suggest roses. The
man who puffs cigars constantly must
carry the cigar between his lips. The
lips are easily changed in shape. The
side of the mouth on which the cigar is
carried in time says and gets out Of
shape, giving the smoker soured, fab
by expression-likewi a one sided
face Still worse it is when the weight
of an old pipe, tugged at all day, must
be borne by the mouth. If the pipe Is
carried in the center of the mouth aft
er awhile the lower lip is permanently
turned downward and outward, caus-
ing a different phase Of deformity in
the smokers mouth. The lips are in
every case discolOred and stained a
ye1lowish brown hue in place Of the
rich red Of the untainted lips. With all
my soul hope, even for the sake Of
their looks alone, women will never
get this uncomely smokers mouth.
Note and bear in mind that Justice
Brewer Of the United States supreme
court said lately in an address to the
Vassar girls, "Who shall say that be-
fore gray hair shall come to your heads
a woman like Queen Victoria shall not
sit in the White House to glorify this
nation as Victoria glOrified EhgiandW
Here is question for women to
settle: A man had been married thirty
years and was the father Of twelve
children. His wife, the children'S moth
er, was a weakened, spiteful, nagging
little wasp of d woman who gave him
no peace night or day. The only way
he was able to live with her was to
give her a sound beating when she be-
came unendurably cantankerous; so he
thought, so he did. After the thrashing
she would cool down and be compare
lively amiable for a longer or shorter
period, when again the correction was
necessary and was administered. By
and by, hOwever-and here the strange
part Of the story comes in-the man
got religious and concluded it was sim
full to beat his wife, so stopped it. Then
the wasp of woman became fairly
fiendish in her Ill temper and nagging-
worse than ever before. The home was
true purgatory. The husband would
have left his wife, but there were the
twelve children. Now, what Should
that man do?
Two Of the physically biggest men,
bers Of the presidents cabinet were
recently temporarily quite broken
down in health at the same time, and
both were ordered to quit and take
long rest. Women are not physically
strong enough for political duties!
The time is coming when, instead of
any old kind of girl being naturally
expected to secure a husband and be
taken care of, the community will ask,
What right has a girl without health,
wealth, grit or learning or any ability
even to take care Of herself-a girl
who is thriftless, shiftless hOuSekeep-
err besides-to marry at all and repeat
herself in weakling children as de-
ficient as she is?
Lately a young man tried to elope
with his girl and be married in order
to get away from the fuss and parade
Of a society wedding, but his mother
found it out and stopped him. Ones
sympathies are altogether with the
young man. A fashionable wedding
these days is an ordeal compared with
which the ancient trial by fire would
be child's play.
A would be humorous writer asks
why no woman can jump, sharpen q
pencil, throw ball, draw a cork or
drive a nail A woman can do all Of