Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1912-09-20
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has De
/ Cided Views on Subject,
4 CONFUSION CT NAMES
Wife of Democratic Candidate SiVes
! Out Letter Taking Strong STAND OF
; Smoking Habit.

cratic presidential candidate has Mrs.
Wilson appeared She attended 10
person her husbands daily conference
with reporters, although heretofore
she has made special requests that she
be not quoted nor written ABOUT N tne
papers.
What Mrs. Wilson wished to have
fully understood was that II she De-
comes the first LADY OF the land she
will not az has been SAID ID widely
distributed interview, have packages
of cigarettes in her personal desk al
the White House and indulge in smok.
ing them with her callers.
Through Governor Wilson, Mrs. VIII
son asked that publicity be given 10
-,,o.to- slo had written to the eC!tor OF
the State Journal at Columbus, o.,
repudiating an alleged interview with
her in which she defended cigarette
smoking for women. The interview
mad come to her in a letter signed
american Citizen" which said:
Dear Madam can scarcely think
of any greater calamity to the young
women Of the nation than to read such
a preachment as your interview ohers
them. I am a workingman, and l see
men lose their Jobs almost every day
because they are incapacltated for
work by the use Of the cigarette. II
smoking does this for strong men
what will it do for girls and women?'
The interview" was indeed a cor
dial Endorsement OF the woman smok-
er. Here are some OF its assuring
phrases, all credited to Mrs Wilson:
"A woman writer for syndicate OF
Sunday newspapers asked Mrs Wood
row Wilson If she agreed with Ger
trude Atherton's opinion Of the smok.
ing of cigarettes by women. She smil-
ingly exhibited three cigarette boxes
piled in the corner of her desk, all but
empty.
why shouldn't woman smoke II
she enjoys it?' she queried.
"Why hasn't she just as much right
to a cigarette as man Certainly
agree with Mrs. Anterior that any
existing prejudice against women
smoking is TO the last silly and abb
surd.
"'Smoking cigarettes is question
of manners, not morals. 1t promotes
good fellowship.
Some women feel that cigarette
Gains their nerves and helps their
brains into working order. Personally
smoking diffuses my thoughts instead
OF concentrating them. | enjoy it as
enjoy after dinner coffee. Both are
Pleasant ways Of ending and finishing
off both add to conyiviality and good
IL ..-,aliY> /, -
The editor Of the Ohio State Journal.
1t was clear, had been much incensed
at the apologies for the cigarette habit
among women attributed to Mrs. VIII.
son, as he wrote on Aug. 10 an edito-
rial in which he called for the defeat
of Governor Wilson or a Reputation
from his wife. If there was no mis-
take about it, he wrote, Mrs. Wood
row Wilson shouldn't be mistress Of
the White House"
II the Ohio editor was emphati.
Mrs. Wilson was certainly not less so.
After the reporters had said they
would gladly publish her letter to tho
Ohio editor she asked for an hours
time in which to write one. This was
what she prepared:
Dear Sir-I have just received a
copy Of the Journal with your editc-
rial entitled Smoking Women and
beg leave to deny Indignantly the
statement that l approve OF women
smoking cigarettes. The interview
upon which your editorial was basel
is pure invention. l intensely dis
like the cigarette smoking habit for
women-in fact, so strong Is my fesl.
ing on the subject that my real danger
lies in being unjust and unhind in my
Judgment OF those who differ with me
in this respect
"But certainly no woman In our
household ever has or ever will sr oke.
lutte apart from the bad taste Of it,
believe with you that it has an g.:
tremely injurious effect on the nergei
ELLEN A. WILSON.
("Mrs. Woodrow Wilson~
Governor Wilson, in approving tho
lSllS1 0SnI oul W 34A .. w AAool, OhSI ca
what he thought might prove an eG-
PLANTATION for the interview
81 do not think it was maliciously
invented" he said. There is rather
well known writer who signs herself
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, and she no
doubt has been confused with Mrs.
Wilson"
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow was formerly
married to a relative of Governor Will
son, and it is understood that her
views on the matter Of women VINO
smoke are different from those held
IN the household Of the Democratic
candidate.
It is reported that papers which are
supporting the bull mooser have Or
aered extra fonts OF us" And they
Elll De needed When ieuuy gets to
talking.
Wonder how the colonel likes being
y outcastH
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