The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-07-28
CICARET HABIT IS
PICTURED AS THE
GROWING MENACE
Alice engMarth 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.
SOME N USE CIGARS

New YORK, July 1o.-in Outlining fSf
national campaign at the Hotel Martha
Washington to save the women of the
country from the 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 and support of the club women
of the country, she says 1T is to n So
ciety women and college girls that the
first part Of the campaign will be di"
Teated.
1.-THE cisaret habit is growing rapid
ly among college girls" said Miss Gas
ton, "and it Is high time that some
thing was done to check it.
the eisaret habit among ~oS:s: has
spread to Chicago, n it is quite COM
mon among society folk. But I guess
from all l hear that it 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 APP
peal to members of the Colony club
here. I understand that most Of Its
cigaret users.
Too Nervous to Smoke"
Women are too nervous to try cigar
ct smoking to quiet their nerves., al
many Of them do. A Broadway drug
glst Informs me that among all classes
Of professional women h clgaret habit
had grown amazingly in the last year.
Women, he said, were becoming adj
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
Castor, my work among boys Will
continue, but conditions seem to cal
now for similar work to be lone among
the girls"
Asked what she believed to be tn.
cause of increase among women cigare1
users, Miss CASTOR said abe thought Al
could be attributed to 10 one thing, bdI
she did think that women's associa.
ton with men in business had some.
thing to do with it.
Suffrage Not a Cause.
D you think that the suffrage agi
tation with its cry Of equality will adj
to this ~increase?" Miss CASTOR wa
asked. ed
WELL" replied the leader OF the anti
cigaret forces, slowly. II am a SUI
fragist, but II 1 thought that suffrag
would encourage such equality 4
morals. or lack Of them. I should pre-
fer to sacrifice suffrage"
Mrs. Philip Snowden, the Englfs
s~uffragist, who arrived yesterday, whe
told of Miss Gaston's campaign, de
, clared that more anti-suffragists tha
! ~suffragists were cigaret smokers abroad
I TT Ia the rich class who smoke,
said Mrs. Snowden. II dc not smok
in London cafes Is not so general a
you Americans may think"
] Among New York women who agree
with Miss CASTOR In her views on tn
increasing smoke habit among wome
!. Is Mrs. Clarence Burns.
= 1T Is becoming quite common no.
to serve cigarets with dinners" Sal
Mrs. Burns. But the cigaret hab
among women, I think, is largely con
: fined to society women, and the won
en- of the unfortunate class"
Smoking at Colony Club.
a Mrs. Gabrille Stewart Mulliner, tn
well known club woman and lawye
aid
, 1T Is the women Of the leisure clas
I who have taken up smoking as a sma,
social diversion and of comradship.
all savors Of a relaxation from pur
a tanical ideas OF virtue and fine woman
hood. Cigarets have been passed
!, many homes in which I have dine
and In some clubs. notably the Colon
Z club.
In the National Arts club, con
posed Of men and women members, OF
woman artist tried to introduce smol
ing for women. She never tried 1t Il
second time. The board Of governor
have expressly provided in the bylaw
against a repetition In the Nation
4 Arts club.
II do not see why decent wome
I married or single, think 1t worth viii
to emulate the tactis Of women
the half world. There may be an II
r sidous pleasure in the effect Of a fe
puffs of smoke. But SO there Is in Il
soothing effect of opium.
II do not know of any business won
en- who smoke. Whenever women ha'
to have clear brains they refrain fro
stimulents OF all kinds. as well
smoking"
q Miss CASTOR, pointing out the imm
10 date necessity for action against Il
10 tobacco enemy, declared that the pra
a tice among women had grown to su,
q, lengths that many women are no long
satisfied with mere cigarets, but b,
~ become inveterate patrons of cigars.
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