Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-08-23
CIGARETTES Are
+ BAD FOR WOMEN.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson HaS De-
Cided Views on Subject. @
A CONFUSION OF NAMES
Wife OF Democratic Candidate Gives
Out Letter Taking Strong Stand on
Smoking Habit.

Woodrow Wilson became the Demo
cratic presidential candidate has Mrs
Wilson appeared. She attended I'M
person her husbands daily conference
with reporters, although heretofore
sho 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 Il 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
mad come to her in 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
preachment as your Interview offers
them. | am a workingman, and | 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 wiz II do for girls and women2"
The Interview" was indeed u cor
dial Endorsement of the woman smoE-
er. Here are some OF its assuring
phrases. all credited to Mrs. Wilson:
~ woman writer for ? -yni,iIatc of
Sunday newspapers ISn,i Mrs Wood
row Wilson il she agreed with Ger
trude Athertons opinion OF the smok-
ing OF cigarettes by women She smil-
ingly exhibited three cigarette boxes
pied in the corner OF her desk. all but
empty.
"'Why shouldn't a woman smoke il
she enjoys il? she queried
why hasn't She Just as much right
to n cigarette rs Il man Certainly l
agree with Mrs. Athcrton that any
existing prejudice against women
smoking is 10 the last silly and abb
surd
Smoking cigarettes is question
of manners. not Morals. 1t promotes
EcOU fellowship.
Some women feel that cigarette
calms their nerves and helps their
brains into working order Personally
smoking diifuses my thoughts instead
OF concentrating them. enjoy it as l
enjcy after dinner coffee Both are
pleasant ways of ending and finishing
on: both add to conviviality and good
fcliIwship.'
The editor of the Ohio State Journal,
ii was clear, had been much incensed
at the apologies for the cigarette habit
among women attributed to Mrs. Will
son. rs he wrote on Aug. 10 an editO-
rial III 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 emphati,
Mrs. Wilson was certainly not less so.
After 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 a
copy OF the Journal with your edito-
rial entitled Smoking Women. and
beg leave to deny Indignantly the
statement that | approve OF women
smoking cigarettes. The interview
upon which your editorial was based
is pure invention. / intensely DIS
like the cigarette smoking habit for
women-in fact, so strong is my feel
ing on the subject that my real danger
lies in being unjust and unkind in my
Judgment of those who differ with me
in this respect.
but certainly no woman in our
household ever has or ever will smoke.
lutte apart from TIE bad taste of il.
believe with you that it has an e.
tremely injurious effect on the nerves
ELLEN A. WILSON.
("Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.O
Governor Wilson. in approving the
letter sent out by Mrs. Wilson. offered
what he thought might prove an ex.
PLANTATION for the interview.
II 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 r5rmerly
married TO a relative of Governor VIII
son. and 1t is understood that her
views on the matter of women who
smoke are different from those held
IN the household of the Democratic
candidate.