The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-21

The Efietc East---Womcn of the
Leisure Glass Who Set a Bad Ex-
ample and Give orfcnse.
BY United Press Wire.


New York, July Ell think it an
outrage that women of the type Of
Alice Roosevelt-Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth now-and Miss Eleanor Sears,
the Boston society leader, smoke
ctgarets- and encourage the habit. to
the ruin of many a foolish girl who
believes IL smart to follow their vile
example," said Miss Lucy Page Gas
ton, of Chicago, founder of the Anti
Cigaret League of America, to a Uni
ted Press representative at the Hotel
Martha Washington today where she
Is making her headquarters for her
New York campaign. Miss CASTOR
declares that cigaret smoking pre-
walls to an astonishing extent among
college girls. society women, actresses
and women In general. She says she
VIII address letter of reproof to Miss
Sears, whom she considers the spokcs.
woman of the cigaret smoking women
and that committee of the league
will visit Mrs. Longworth with anti
cigaret literature and arguments.
IF Miss Sears pays no attention to
my letter." said Miss Castor, II shall
pay her a visit, as l expect to 20 to
Boston shortly.
Il shall try, with the aid of the
league, to reform cigaret smoking
women and should like to start in
on Miss Sears and Mrs. Longworth.
We will also go after the boys.
How about reforming the men?
oh, that's too big a proposition for
myself or the league, just yet. But
with the women, that's different. Do
object to women smoking in private?
Certainly. / object to them smoking
at all.
ut is astonishing the extent to
which smoking I'm private prevails.
Women smoke in their boudoirs, in
the ladies' parlors of theaters and
steal puifs, occasionally, at fashionable
restaurants from the cigarets of their
companions.
DO you know" continued Miss Gas
ton, casually glancing at the inter-
viewers fingers for yellow stains,
there are cigaret smoking women of
old families and of large wealth i'm
New York City who are as deprayed
as any of these unfortunate women
who walk the streets. That is q fact
and / have IL on excellent authority"
Mrs. Philip Snowden, the English
suffragist, who arrived here yester-
day, when told of Miss Gaston's cam
paign against women cigaret smokers,
declared that In England 1t was tho
anti-suffragettes that smoked. "It Is
the rich class who smoke In England"
she said, "and cigaret smoking in Lon
don cafes is not so general as you
Americans seem to think"
Mrs. Gabrielle Stewart Mulliner
clubwoman and lawyer, said:
"It is the women of the leisure class
that have taken up smoking as Il
smart social diversion and for COM
radship. IL all savors OF a relaxa-
tion from purltanical ideas of virtue
and OF iino women. Cigarcts have
been passed In many homes in which
have dined and in some clubs. no
tably In the Colony club.
In the National Arts club, COM
posed of men and women members,
one woman artist tried to introduce
cigaret smoking for women. She
never tried II the second time. The
board of governors then adopted Il
bylaw prohibiting women smoking. /
do not see why decent women, mar
ried or single, think II worth while to
the practices of the woman of
the half world. Wherever women
have to have clear brains they refrain
from stimulants of all kinds, as well |
as smoking"