Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-15
WOMEN WHO DRINK
AVID SMOKE NOT ON
INCREASE, SHE SAYS
Mrs. Stevens Has Seen Wo-
men in HoveIS Smoking
Pipes, But Not Cigarettes,
Here or in Europe

BALTIMORE, Nov. 12.ADrinking and
cigarette smoking are not on the in
crease among the women of America,
according to Lillian NJ. N. Stevens. pres
ident of the National Women's Chris
tian Temperance union. Addressing the
annual convention of the Organization
here today, she said in part:
I'VE are sometimes told that drink
among women is on the increase. vt
can hardly be so among the outcasts and
lower classes, for it is largely drink
which has brought them where they are.
Alcoholic beverages cannot justly, even
among women, be called a class drink,
for alcohol in the costly wine glass is
as deadly and dangerous as it is In the
dingy whisky mug.
I'VE are sometimes told that there is
much cigarette smoking among women.
In the course of my travels in England
and America, I have never seen a woman
with a cigarette in her mouth, except In
certain localities in New Mexico, where
the surroundings were not at all pleas
ant to contemplate. There is reason
to believe that some women in England
do smoke cigarettes and we are told
that there are some in America of like
habit I have seen now and then a wo-
man in a howell smoking a pipe.
IT am glad that the National and
anti-narcotics and am happy in believ-
ing that the number of women who
smoke cigarettes in elegant homes or
who smoke tobacco in any form In the
tramp lodging house are very few in this
country, and I am particularly glad that
the youths are being taught to shun the
nicotine poison, and this teaching is
greatly helped by the requirement OF
many business firms that their employees
shall not use cigarettes.
Referring to the white Slave" traffic
the speaker reviewed recent federal.
state and city attempts to stifle 1t.
Mrs Stevens vigorously recommended
an amendment to the federal constitu-
ton prohibiting polygamy and giving 10
congress power to enforce such prohl-
bition by suitable legislation.
The Jeffries-Johnson prize fight came
In for it's share of criticism and Mrs.
Stevens urged adoption of the bill now
pending in congress prohibiting the in
terstate transportation of fight pictures.
Linking woman suffrage with the cause
of temperance, she said:
"It is an encouraging sign Of the times
that many prominent newspapers ana
Journals recently have printed so much
that is favorable to woman's suffrage
Today as never before, women WORK IN
professions and occupations from which
they were formerly debarred; and share
with men in educational opportunities
and honors. True maniless and true
womanliness will be permanently main
tanned. not through the supremacy or
either sex, but by equality and justice
to all, irrespective of sex. This is the
keynote of the woman's suffrage move
ment."
quite recently" she continued, "our
daily papers have had somewhat to say
relative to the reported statement or
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, ambassador to Great
Britain, in which he advocates the adop-
ton in this country of the custom OF
drinking toast to our president in the
same form that Great Britain's people
drink to the health of their king. The
president of the United States is entitled
to as much good cheer and good health
as the king or queen of any country, but
we should condemn any custom which
called for the use of wine or other alec
holic liquor, and it surely would be out
of place to drink to the health Of Pres
ident Taft in alcoholic liquor since on
public occasions he has himself so splen-
didly set to the young men of this ma