Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-11-18
WOMEN AREN'T
Big SMOKERS
". c. 7. u. Champion Comes
to Rescue.

OfuiiAioIC q MI, 4NOfeuleF. II -
Drinking and cigarette smoking are
mot ON the increase among the wo,
men of America, according to- Lillian
N. Stevens, president of the National
Women's Christian Temperance I'm
ion. Addressing the annual eonven-
tion of the organization here today, she
said in part:
We are sometimes told that drink
among women is on the increase. 1t
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
class drink, for alcohol in the cost
~ wine glass is as deadly and dan
gerous as it lis in the dingy wh'iskey
mug.
We are sometimes told that there is
much cigarette smoking among wo-
men. In the course of my travels in
England and America, / have never
seen woman with a cigarette in her
mouth, except in certain localities in
New Mexico, where the surroundings
were not at all pleasant to contem-
plate. There is reason to believe that
some women in England do smoke Gig,
|arettes, and there are some i'm America
of like habit. | have seen now and
then a woman in a howell smoking
pipe.
Il am glad that the National and
Worlds w. C. T. U. has a department
of anti-narcotics, and | am happy in
believing that the number of women
who smoke cigarettes in elegant homes
or who smoke tobacco in amy form in
the tramp lodging houses are very few
in the country, and l am particularly
glad that the youths are being taught
to shun the nicotine poison, and this
teaching is greatly helped by the re-
quirement OF many business firms that
their employees shall not use cigar
cites"
Referring to the white Save" t11af-
fic, the speaker reviewed recent fed
eral, state and city attempts to stiAe
it, and continued:
at matters little whether the traf-
fic lis Organized or mot. The fact
that it exists in New York and else
where is sufficient to arouse humanity
owing people. Without amy eXaggera-
zion it is appalling enough to arouse
title most apathetic, and invest'ga-.
tions in some cities have revealed that
even little girls in their infancy are
sold into these dens off infamy"
The Jeffries-Johnson prize fight
came in for its share of criticism, and
Mrs. Stevens urged the adoption Of
the bill now pending in congress pro
hibiting the interstate transportation
of fight pictures.
Tie reports submitted were general,
ly OF an encouraging nature Mrs
Frances p. Parks of Illinois, the cor
responding secretary, reported 62 stats
unions in the national organization,
with a constituency of more than 300,-
900 In addition there are ,655 unions
of young peoples branches.
'Forty-seven great industrial cen
tiers throughout the nation" the re
port said, leach with over 10000 pop
ulation, have outlawed tie saloon; the
capital cities Of New Hampshire, Ver-
mont, West Virginia, Florida, Ne
braslaa and Michigan are 'dng' under
local option"
Mrs. Laurenda B. Smith, of Kansas |
national superintendent of the depart
ment of Rescue work, reported that
the past year had been a strenuous
and successful one. Eight states en-
acted laws for the suppression of
traffic in women One hundred ana |
rescue homes had been
established and many thousands of
girls had been led to a newer and bet |
ter life. The Society for the Friend
less reached over 5000 men.
The efforts of the Department of
Medical Temperance during the past
year were not fruitful elf results hoped |
for, according to its report to it's su-
peFintendent, Mrs. Martha NJ Allen, of |
N. Y. A strong, but I'M
awaiting appeal was to induce the
pharmacopoeial convention to elimi- |
nate whiskey, brandy and the indicated |
wines from the new edition of the
Pharmacopoeia While no action was
taken on the appeal, it is thought the
said, that the medicated
wines will be omitted, whether whis-
key and brandy are or not.
"One interesting thing in connection
with the effort" the report added, 's
the fact that the majority of professors
of medicine lin the medical cclle2es
expressed themselves as in faror of
tie elimination of these dninlss from
the Ptharmacopoeia'
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