Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-09-05
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| BAD FOR WOMEN.
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Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Has De-
eIded Views on Subject.
An ERROR IN NAMES.

Wife Of Democratic, Candidate Gives
Out Letter Taking Strong Stand on
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 If she be-
comes the first lady Of the land She
will not, as has been said in a widely
distributed interview, have packagesl
Of cigarettes in her personal desk at
the White House and indulge in smok-'
ing them with her callers.
Through Governor Wilson. Mrs. WILL
son asked that publicity be given to a.
letter she had written to the editor Of
the State Journal at Columbus, o..
repudlating 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-I can scarcely think OF
any greater calamity to tho young wom-
preachment as your interview offers them.
am workingman, and 1 see men lose
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
vqmen3
The Interview was indeed cor
dial Endorsement Of the woman smok-
er. Here are some of It's assuring
phrases, all credited to Mrs. Wilson:
4. "a woman writer for syndicate of
Sunday newspapers asked Mrs. Wood
row Wilson II 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.
"fwhy shouldn't a oan smoke Y
..fis1 -eujo5s 1lT she Qdt>E. S1A.---S
"sWhy hasn't she just as much right
to a cigarette as manf Certainly I
agree with Mrs. Atherton that any ex-
isting 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
smoking diffuses my thoughts instead
OF concentrating them. enjoy 1t as I
enjoy aftor dinner coffee. Both are
pleasant ways of ending and finishing
on; 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. VIII.
son. as he wrote on Aug. 10 an edlto-
rial In which he called for the defeat
OF Governor Wilson or a reputation
from his wife. II there was no mis-
take about II, he wrote, "Mrs. Wood
row Wilson shouldn't be mistress OF
the White House."
II the Ohio editor was emphatic Mrs.
Wilson was certainly not less so. Aft.
or the reporters had said they would
gladly publish her letter to the Ohio
: editor she asked for an hours time in
3 which to write one. This was what
abe prepared:
Dear slr-I have Just received n copy OF
Tho Journal with your editorial entitled
smoking Women" and beg leave 10 In.
diKnantly deny the statement that ap.
provo Of women smoking cigarettes. The
Interview upon which your editorial was
based IL pure Invention. intensely dis
uko the cigarette smoking habit for WON.
on-in fact. no strong Is my feeling on the
subject that my rel danger lies In beins
unjust and unkind In my judgment ol
those who differ 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 Il. believe
with you that II has an extremely injurl'
Gus eject on the nerves.
ELLEN A. WILSON.
-. (hfrs. Woodrow Wllson.)
\ Governor Wilson. in approving thu
letter sent out by Mrs. Wilson, Offered
what he thought might prove an ex
PLANTATION for the interview.
II DO not think II was maliciously In
vented" he said. ''There Is a rathel
well known writer who signs herself
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, and she n,
doubt has been confused with Mrs
) Wilson"
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow was formerl,
married to a relative of Governor VIII
son, and II is understood that her view
Son the matter OF women who smok,
4 are different from those held In thu
household of the Democratic candidate
The divided Republican party is like
>the boy blowing against the wind
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