The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-28
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Have You Ever Noticed
[ the Smokers Mouth?

rapidly increasing among fashionable
women. II so, this is sadly to be re-
GREETED, for then the feminine face,
with its mobile features, will rapidly
manifest the smokers mouth. This
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. / have been travel
ing on the New York city elevated
trains now for number of years.
meanwhile keeping my eyes open. The
incorporate smoking of tobacco has III
creased certainly 80 per cent among
men within a few years, and it is i'm
printing upon the countenances OF
Americans the fixed smokers mouth.
1t is not q 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 Observation-Disclosures 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 Il
yellowish brown hue i'll place of the
rich red Of the untainted lips. With all
my soul l hope, even for the sake of
their looks alone, women will never
get. this uncomely smokers mouth.
s. o
Note and bear in mind that Justice
Brewer of the United States supreme
Vassar girls, "Who shall say that be-
fore gray hair shall come to your heads
Il woman like Queen Victoria shall not
sit in the White House to gorify this
nation as Victoria glorified England?"
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 n weakened, spiteful, nagginS
little wasp of Il woman who~gave him
no peace night or day. The only Iay
he was able to live with her Was 70
give her Il sound beating when she be-
came uncndUrably cantankerous; SO he
thought, so he did. After the thrashing
she would cool down and be compare
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 4 woman became fairly
fiendish in her iii temper and nagging-
worse than ever before. The home was
a 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 nom
bers of the presidents cabinet We're
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 q 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 a thriftless, shiftless housekeep-
er besides-to marry at all and repeat
herself ., weakling children as de-
ficient as she is?
Lately young man tried to elope
with his girl and be married in order
to get away from the fuss and parade
of u 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 frial by fire would
be child's play.
A would be humorous writer asks
why no woman can jump. sharpen
pencil, throw ball, draw q cork or
drive nail. A woman can do all OF
these things as well as anybody If she
takes the trouble to learn how to do
them.
1t has been decreed that women may
lecture as instructors In the philosoph.
ical department of the University OF
Vienna The sun do move.
Russian women and little girls enjoy
the full rights of Russian men to be
logged with Cossack knouts.
Monv thousond wars n has taken