The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-05
MRS. LONOWORTH
TARGET OF CEX|
Miss Eleanor Sears Also
Implored to Give Up
the Cigarette

Members of the ". c. T. L. and other
prominent women moralists of the
middle west have inaugurated a ma
ton wide campaign TO induce Mrs
Nicholas I.onsworth. wife of the Ohio
con gressman and daughter of Theodore
Roosevelt, to give up the use of cigar
cites. Miss Eleanor Sears, the Bostvn
society girl who has been a prominent
figure in the exclusive set of Hills
/ borough and this city recently, has
also been singled out as a target for
the criticism of the enemies of the to-
bacco habit among women. and her
name has been coupled with that of
Mrs. Longworth in campaign of pub
licity against the woman cigarette
smoker undertaken by the Young Peo-
pies Civic leagu of Illinois.
That Alice Roosevelt Longworth is
lacking in womanly sense OF re-
sponsibility. is yielding to a degen-
crate appetite. is aping the vices OF
foreign women and is showing indif
ference to the moral teachings OF her
father in smoking cigarettes" Is the
opinion of the ". C. T. U. leaders OF
Minneapolis.
Both the Hennepin county and the
Minnesota state W. c. T. U. organiza-
tions will adopt resolutions at their
next meetings telling Mrs. LOngworth
the opinions of the members on the
matter. and urging her to discontinue
the use of cigarettes, ''in public, at
least"
Miss Rosette Hendrix, state presi-
Of he W mi
that Mrs. Longworth yielded to de-
generate appetite in smoking"
"A woman in her position, whose
every act is chronicled by the press.
should have sufficient wOmanliness TO
deny herself the strange delights OF
the use of nicotine in paper pipes
said Miss Hendrix. Her father has
told the nation how TO raise its fami-
lies, how many children to have and
how to behave itself generally. 1t
would seem from the cigarette esca-
pades of his daughter that he had not
been particularly successful in rearing
his own children
Members of the Cincinnati woman's
Christian temperance union are also
anxious to induce Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth TO discontinue cigarette smoking.
Today they will hold a meeting at the
home of DR.. Sarah Siewers. president
of the Walnut Hills Woman's- Christian
temperance union.
According to Doctor Siewers the Gin
cinnati organization probably will in
dorse the action recently taken by
Lucy Page CASTOR. president Of the
National anti-cigarette league. who di-
rected that committee wait on the
daughter Of former President Roosevelt
or present letter asking that she quit
smoking cigarettes or publicly deny
that she does so.
Similar action may be taken in Gin
cinnad by the Central Woman's Chris
tian temperance union, of which Mrs.
John Robertson is president. next
Wednesday. The matter is to- be dis
cussed at the outing of the Susan B.
Anthony suffrage club to be held next
week
Congressman and Mrs. Longworth de-
cline tor discuss the matter in any of
its phases.
Mrs. Emil Seidel. wife Of the socialist
mayor of Milwaukee. thinks that Mrs.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth is no lady IL
she smokes cigarettes. but she also
thinks that the Christian Endeavorers
are making a mistake when they take
such character wrecking course as
has marked their crusade against the
daughter of the former president.
The cigarette is undermining the
health Of our men. and making weak
lings of them said Mrs. SeideL Think.
then, what effect this same habit will
have on woman. Her duty is to be
mother, to bear our future presidents
and statesmen and citizens. Cigar
cite smoking by women means the ruin
of our future generations.
II do not think however, that the
Christian Endeavor societies are doing
quite right by asking Mrs. Longworth
to refrain from smoking. I think they
are taking somewhat of a liberty"
Twenty-siX thousand letters are go
ing out today, the remainder of lot of
mail, the first of which was posted yes
terday, to clubwomen and Sunday
school children of Chicago and illinois,
asking cooperation with the Young
Peoples civic league in efforts to re-
strain Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
and Miss Eleanor Sears from smoking
cigarettes.
Mrs. Longworth is setting a bad ex-
ample to the young Womanhood of our
country said Miss Mary Balconb of
River Forest, ILL.,, secretary of the
league. "and if she were anybody ex-
cept Theodore Roosevelt's daughter he
would be the first to condemn her"