The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-09-06
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fife Of Democratic Candidate Give
Out Letter Taking Strong Stand o.
Smoking Habit.
New York.--For the first time sine,
Woodrow Wilson became the Demo
cratic presidential candidate has Mrs
Wilson appeared She attended II
person her husbands daily conferenc,
isvlth reporters. although heretofor,
b,e has made special requests that shs
oe not quoted nor written about In the
papers.
What Mrs. Wilson wished to have
fully understood was that II she be
comes the first Iady of the land she
will not as has been said in a 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 to a
letter she had written to the editor of
the State Journal at Columbus. O..
repudiating an alleged interview with
her In which she defended cigarette
smoking for women. The interview
had come to her in letter signed
american Citizen" which said:
Dear MADAME can scarcely think OF
any greater calamity TO the young wom-
On Of the natien than to read such q
preachment as your interview offers them
am a workingman. and see men lose
their Jobs almost every day because they
are ircapacitated for work by the use of
the cigarette. II smoking does this for
strong men what win II do for girls and
Women7
The ''interview" was indeed 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
frude Atherton's opinion of the smolr-
ing Of cigarettes by women. She smil-
ingly exhibited three cigarette boxes
piled In the corner OF her desk. all but
empty.
H'Why shouldn't woman smoke II
she enjoys ftg she queried.
"'Why hasn't she just as much right
to cigarette as man? Certainly l
agree with Mrs. Atherton that any ex-
listing prejudice against women smok-
ing is to the last silly and absurd.
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 I
enjoy after dinner coffee Both are
pleasant ways of ending and finishing
off; both add to conviviality and good |
fellowship. 49,
Il The editor Of the Ohio State Journal,
It was clear. had been much incensed !
at the apologies for the cigarette habit
among Women attributed to Mrs. Will
son, as he wrote on Aug. 10 an edito-
rial in which he called for the defeat
of Governor Wilson or 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"
If the Ohio editor was emphatic Mrs.
Wilson was certainly not less so. Aft
er the reporters had said they would |
gladly publish her letter to the Ohio /
editor she asked for an hours time in |
which to write one. This was what !
she prepared:
,<ncer Sir-1 have Just received copy of |
Journal with your editorial entitled |
Smoking Women" and beg leave to in
dignantly deny the statement that l APP
prove Of women smoking cigarettes. The |
interview upon which your editorial was !
based is pure invention. intensely dis
like the cigarette smoking habit for wom-
en-in fact. SO strong is my feeling ON the |
subject that my real danger lies In being
unjust and unkiDd IN my Judgment of |
those who diner with me In this respect.
But certainly no woman In our house
,old ever has or ever Will smoke Quite
apart from the bad taste Of II. believe
with you that II has an extremely injuri-
GUS effect on the nerves
Z Ifrf[ Tt1I-src-. Illl<EN a. WlL6ON
IS : - lAirs. woodrow wilson.)
Governor Wilson. in approving the
liter sent out by Mrs. Wilson. offered
what, he thought might prove an ex-
PLANTATION for the interview.
Il do not think 1t was maliciously in
vented he said There is rather
well known writer who signs herself
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow. and she no
doubt has been confused with Mrs
y''rap"
wilson Woodrow was formerly
to relative Of Governor VIII
IND 1t Is understood that her views
he matter of women who smoke
different from those held in the
isehold of the Democratic candidate
he divided Republican party is like
boy blowing against the wind"
VIII be lot Of buster, but It
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