Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-08-27
CIGARETTES ARE
BAD FOR WOMEN
MIS-, NIOCaTuW Wilson Has De-
CIdad vi9vS on Subject.
An ERROR IN NAMES.
Wife Of Democratic Candidate Gives
Out Letter Taking Strong Stand on
Smoking Habit.

| OuN LNNAoF AMY O|Nfo -
| Smoking Habit.
New York.-For the first time since
Woodrow Wilson became the Demo-
cratic presidential candidate has Mrs.
Wilson appeared. She attended In
person her husbands daily conference
with reporters. although heretofore
she has made special requests that she
be not quoted nor written about In the
papers.
what Mrs. Wilson wished to have
| fully understood was that II she be-
comes the first lady Of the land she
will not. as has been said In a widely
distributed Interview. have packages
Of cigarettes in her personal desk at
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 Madam can scarcely think OF
any greater calamity to the young won-
| en- Of the nation than to read such
preachment as your interview offers them
| am a workingman. and l see men lose
their Jobs almost every day because they
are incapacitated for work by the use OF
the cigarette. IL smoking does this for
/ hof mill n girls and
| women?
The interview" was indeed a cor
dial Endorsement of the woman smok-
err. 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
I piled in the corner of her desk. all but
| empty.
"'Why shouldn't woman smoke il
she enjoys itg she queried.
"'Why hasn't she Just as much right
to cigarette as man? Certainly
agree with Mrs. Anterior that any ex-
listing prejudice against women smok-
ing is to the last silly and absurd.
smoking cigarettes Is a 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 l
enjoy after dinner coffee. Both are
J pleasant ways OF ending and finishing
off; 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 a Reputation
from his wife. If there was no mis-
take about 1t, 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
err 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:
Dear Sir-I have Just received copy OF
the Journal with your editorial entitled
l,.aer f,f
dignantly deny the statement that l APP
prove OF women smoking cigarettes The
interview upon which your editorial was
based is a pure invention. intensely dis
like the cigarette smoking habit for WON.
en-in fact. so strong is my feeling on the
subject that my real danger lies in beine
unjust and unkind in my judgment q
those who diner with me In this respect.
But certainly no woman in our house
hold ever has or ever win smoke. QUITE
apart from the bad taste of II, l believe
with you that II has an extremely injurt
Gus effect on the nerves.
ELLEN A. WILSON.
Mrs Woodrow Wilson)
Governor Wilson, In approving tn
letter sent out by Mrs. Wilson, offere'
what he thought might prove an ex
PLANTATION for the interview.
Il do not think it was maliciously in
vented" he said. There Is a rathe
well known writer who signs hersel
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, and she n
doubt has been confused with Mrs
I Wilson"
/ Mrs Wilson Woodrow was formerl
I married TO relative of Governor Wi
/ son, and it Is understood that her view
!. on the matter Of women who smok
4 are different from those held in tn
! household of the Democratic candidate
II
! The divided Republican party is liz
I the how allnMinc nnAinst the wind.