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Whs Of Democratic Candidate oivs
Out Letter Taking ssrsns o&and :,
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New York-For the hrst time sinc,
Woodrow Wilson became the Demo
cratic presidential candidate has Mn
Wilson appeared. She attended Il
person her husbands daily confersnc>
with reporters, although heretpfoE>
; she has made special requests that shl
b not quoted nor written about IN tn
papers. rS
What Mrs. Wilson wished to havl
fully understood was that II ,she b.
comes the first lady Of the land sha
will not, as has been said in q Wildly
distributed interview, have packages
Of dgarettes In her personal dssk a1
the white House and indulge IN smok'
ing them with her callers.
! Through Governor Wilson. MEs. Wl
son asked that publicity be given 70 q
letter she had written TO the editor a
the State Journal at Columbus, q,
repudiating an alleged interview With
her In which she defended cigarettQ
smoking for women. The interview
had come TO her In a letter signed
american Citizen" which said:
Dear Madam-I can scarcely think o(
| any greater calamity to the young Woua-
| on Of the nation than to read such q
preachment as your interview offers them
am workingman, and see men lo00
their jobs almost every day because they
are incapacitated for work by the use OF
the cigarette. II smoking does this for
strong men what will it do for girls and
women1 @h"
The "interview" was indeed q cor
dial Endorsement of the woman smok-
er. Here are some. Of It's 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
hude Atherton's opinion of the smok-
ing Of cigarettes by women. She smil
ingly exhibited three cigarette bexe9
piled in the corner of her desk, all but
empty. ...r. ..
".Why shouldn't woman smoke if
she enjoys itT she queried.
"'Why hasn't she just as much right
to a 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
calms their nerves and helps their
brains into working order. Personally
diffuses my thoughts instead
OF concentrating them. enjoy it ~ I
enjoy after dinner coffee. Both are
pleasant ways Of ending and flnishinG
of; both add to conviviality and good
fellowship"
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 repudiation
from his wife. If there was no mis-
lake 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
.r 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
he prepared: #z. I
Dear sir-I have Just received a copy of
he Journal with your editorial entitled
Smoking Women" and beg leave to in
deny the statement that ap-
rove OF women smoking cigarettes. The
interview upon which your editorial was
'ased Is pure invention. I intensely dis
Ike the cigarette smoking habit for wom-
Min fact, so strong is my feeling on the
ubJect that my real danger lies in being
MUST and unkind In my Judgment Of
hose who differ with me in this respect.
But certainly no woman in our house.
old ever has or ever will smoke. Quite
part from the bad taste Of it, I believe
nth you that it has an extremely iniurf-
us eject on the nerves.
ELLEN A. WILSON.
(Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.)
Governor Wilson, in approving the
,tter sent out by Mrs. Wilson, offered
that he thought might prove an ex-
lanation for the interview.
II do not think it was maliciously in
ented," he said. "There Is q rather
'ell known writer who signs herself
[rs, Wilson Woodrow, and she No
oubt has been confused with Mrs
Wilson," 'f-'r-
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow was formerly
larried to relative Of Governor VII.
N, and 1t Is understood that her views
! the matter Of women who smoke
'e different from those held in the ..
Of the Democratic candidate!