The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-04-21
treat NICOTINE FIENDS
ps~..,NT SMOKED HUNDRED
y CIGARETTES EVERY DAY.
,r Are Being Given the Silver
'"r' Of an Institution in Detroit,
,Gch. How 1t Is Done.

1lanV Arc OO"S
\ '' rnre at an Institution in Detroit
Mich. How 1t Is Done.
nETROIT, Mich.-A husky bag
= srrasher," who said he never
a1,od less than 100 cigarettes a
,ar stood side by side with a with
U' W. little boy, who said his age was
s'I lro hut who looked more like
W. rhis was but one of the startling
.nosts observed by those who
.abod their turn to be treated with
w. ~. oliver cure at the cigarette
rric conducted by DR.. Daniel Kress
chicago at the Twentieth Century
when I got married a short
limo ago. said the baggage smasher,
~ nos 2 hard drinker. But l real
-, couldn't support both the wife
tho booze, so I cut out the booze
tho mere exercise of will. But 1t
different with cigarettes. Why,
o,n % 2 whole day without a thing
- eat rastling hundreds of pounds
- BAGGAGE, just on the support pro-
ri5od bv ten packs of these" Here
tbo baggage smasher pulled out a
aooraoa of Turkish cigarettes made
in Chicago.
.Bnt lately I've noticed after lift
ing trunks all day that had a kind
Of quttering pain around the heart.
Then 7 amt got the wind I used to
have, So l guess I'll just stand here
,,nti1 it comes my turn to have my
Throat painted with silver. !"
Boy Stunted BY 1t.
INV boy started smoking when he
i was eight years old and he has kept
I'D ever SINCE" said the gray-hair-
pd mother of the shriveled up little
how who said he was u years of age,
bnt who looked to be but four. "Old-
br bovs than he in our neighborhood
aught him to do it because they
bought it was funny to see such q
little chap putting on a cigarette"
Four years of cigarette smoking
tunted the growth of this boy" said
br. Kress, caressing the golden hair
bf the little chap who, for all his
eazened appearance, had fine feat
res That is what always happens
khen very young boys take up the
abit.
For Gods sake come and treat
be and my wife. Cigarettes are kill
hg her"
This was the pathetic appeal en-
bodied in a letter handed to DR..
kress as he entered the club house
pr the clinic.
81 have been kept so busy here
lat have decided not to respond to
BY appeals for private treatment,
BIT am going to see this couple and
b what | can for them" said the
Octor after perusing the letter
Such an appeal as this is not to be
med aside"
No Women at Clinic.
No women came to the public elm
yesterday, but DR.. Kress says there
Fe plenty of women cigarette tiends
Pre-. They desire private treatment
pwever.
A blue haze filled the corridors OF
Ne Twentieth Century Club. 1t is
Ped from smoking cigarettes in the
#ndS and between the lips OF a
pen high school boys who were
@ying last fond farewell to My
dy Nicotine while they waited for
hresS to arrive and spray their
roats.
1t is safe to say that so per cent
the high school boys of Detroit
a oke Cigarettes" said DR.. Kress.
n some cities the percentage is
Aen higher In Los Angeles 70 per
~ OF the high school boys smoke"
After having their throats sprayed
PSI OF the boys yesterday tried the
pertinent of lighting up a cigarette
bin.
II tastes like garbage" was the
lamation, accompanied by a wry
se.
Rlter DR.. Kress' departure the
entieth Century Club, with whom
viii leave his recipe for the cure,