The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-07-28
CICARET HABIT IS
PICTURED AS THE
GROWING MENACE
Alice LongWorth Held Up by
Ardent Reformers as Bad
Example to Members
of Her Sex.
SOME WOMEN USE CIGARS
New York Crusaders Would Ex-
terminate What They Re.
gard as Deadly and
Increasing Evil.

New York, July 26.-In outlining her
national campaign at the Hotel Martha
Washington to a v the women Of the
country from h cigaret habit, Miss
Lucy Page Castor, of Chicago, spoke
In vehement terms of what she called
the "pernicious influence" being con-
stantly exerted by publicity given to
cigaret smoking by Alice Roosevelt
LongWorth and Miss Eleanor Sears. the
famous golfer and social favorite, Of
Boston.
In the national campaign planned, by
which Miss CASTOR hopes to enlist the
interest n support of the club women
Of the country, she says it is to the So
ciety women and college girls that the
first part of the campaign will be di-
rected.
THE cigaret habit is growing rapid
~ among college girls" said Miss Gas
ton, land 1t Is high time that some
thing was don to check 1t.
THE cigaret habit among women has
spread to Chicago, and it is quite COM
mon among society folk. But I guess
from all l hear that 1t is much worse
in New York, and one of the first
things I shall do when l get my organ.
ization perfect this fall will be to ap-
peal to members Of the Colony club
here. I understand that most Of its
members OF high social standing are
cigaret users.
"Too Nervous to Smokes"
women are too nervous to try cigar
ct smoking to quiet their nerves, as
many OF them do. A Broadway drug
gist Informs me that among all classes
Of professional women the cigaret habit
had grown amazingly In the last year.
Women, he said, were becoming ad-
dicted to this form Of stimulant more
and more"
Miss CASTOR came on here to prepare
the way for her fall campaign, when
she hopes to rally the leading ministers
and club women to assist her In fight
Ing the cigaret. "Of course said Miss
Castor, my work among boys will
continue, blu conditions seem to call
now for similar work to be done among
the girls"
Asked what she believed to be the
u Of increase among women cigaret
users, Miss CASTOR said she thought It
could be attributed to no one thing, but
she did think that women's associa-
ton with men In business had some
thing to do with 1t.
Suffrage Not q Cause.
DO you think that the suffrage agi-
tation with its cry of equality will add
asked.
WELL" replied the leader Of the anti
cigaret forces, slowly. II am a suf-
fragist, but If I thought that suffrage
would encourage UGH equality In
morals, or lack Of them. I should pre-
fer to sacrifice suffrage"
Mrs. Philip Snowden. the English
s~uffrasist, who arrived yesterday, when
told of Miss Gaston's campaign, de-
clared that more anti-suffragists than
s~uffragists were cigaret smokers abroad.
1T Is the rich class who smoke
said Mrs. Snowden. II do not smoke
myself, and cigaret smoking by women
In London cafes is not 81 general az
you Americans may think"
Among New York women who agreed
with Miss CASTOR In her views on the
increasing smoke habit among women
Is Mrs. Clarence Burns.
1T Is becoming quite common now
to serve cigarets with dinners" said
Mrs. Burns. But the cigaret habit
among women. I think, Is largely con-
fined to society women, and the WON
en- of the unfortunate class"
Smoking at Colony Club.
well known club woman and lawyer
laid:
1T Is the women Of the leisure class
who have taken up smoking as a smart
social diversion and Of comradship. II
all savors Of a relaxation from puri-
tanlcal IDEAS or Virtue and fine woman
hood. Cigarets have been passed IN
many homes In which I have dined
and In some clubs. notably the Colony
club.
I'm the National Arts club. COM
posed of men and women members, one
woman artist tried to introduce smok-
ing for women. She never tried It the
second time. The board of governors
have expressly provided in the bylaws
against a repetition in the National
Arts club.
II do not see why decent women,
married or single, think 1t worth while
to emulate the tactis Of women OF
the half world. There may be an in
sidous pleasure In the effect Of q few
puffs Of smoke. But SO there Is in the
soothing effect Of opium.
II do not know Of any business wom-
n who smoke. Whenever women have
to have clear brains they refrain from
stimulents Of all kinds. as well as
smoking"
Miss CASTOR, pointing wi the imme-
date necessity for action against the
tobacco enemy, declared that the prac-
tice among women had grown to such
lengths that many women are no longer
satisfied with mere cigarets, but had
become inveterate patrons of cigars.
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