El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-15

ST TAVE cigaret, Anita. What
you don't smoke? Oh. you
poor little day before-yester-
day girl.'
] That's what lots OF my friends say
| to me, and they are nice girls. too.
Sometimes ] think they are the best
! girls in the world because they have
! come unscathed through all the fire of
temptation that the devil himself
lights around the feet OF pretty, poor
girl in big city.
But so many of them use eigarets,
and they tell me that don't know
what I'm missing when don't join
I them in a smoke or two after trying
mornings work in the studio
"Oh. yes. I do know what I'm miss
ing in not smoking eigarets.' l say 10
them. I am missing a bad case Of
nerves, And that it seems TO me, is
the real answer TO the question Of why
women shouldn't smoke
We women are jumpy enough any
way We are nothing but bundles OF
nerves. and why we should add to our
over supply by cultivating the cigaret
habit. have never been able to under
stand. II husky and phlegmatic men
effect is even more deadly on the deli
cate. high-strung girl
Aside. however, from the physical ef-
fects Of cigarets, 1 am personally fas-
tidious. and il revOlts me to smell
girls breath reeking Of tobacco. and
see her fingers stained with nicotine
II / were man. I shouldn't like TO kiss
that kind OF lips. nor hold that kind
Of a hand
Never smoke or Drink.
I never smoke cigarets. and l never
touch liquor in any form. not even a :
cocktail, or a glass Of champagne at /
RAISING to refuse
But il seems to me that the water /
route is the only safe route for a girl /
TO travel, for young as am. have al I
ready noticed that nearly every woman &
who makes wreck of her life runs her I
craft aground when she is befuddled I
with liquor
Everybody knows this. and that's I
what makes them suspicious OF the girl 4
who drinks al all. and that's why you .
hear men say-and they say it with I
reverence-when they are discussing q
girl, -Oh. she's all right Straight as
a string Never touches anything but
water" Just as they'll say with leer
OF another girl. Fond Of the drink
That kind you know.
of course this judgment is often very
unjust girl who takes a drink with
men may never drink too much But
she is always in danger. whereas the
girl who doesn't drink at all is per-
fectly safe, so why run the risk?
More than that, there is a lot IN
avoiding the appearance OF evil We
girls are emotional creatures. easily +
excited, ana just the thrill of dining
in gay restaurant, with the music,
and the lights. and the flowers. and
all the beautifully dressed women com
ing in, runs through our veins like j.
wine and brings = flush TO our cheeks,
and sparkle TO our eyes. and keys our
voices up to concert pitch
We may not have had a single drop
Of liquor 10 drink. but II there are a lot
Of wine glasses AT our plates, and II
We save taken even a sip of cham
payne, the chances are that every one
about US viii think that We are in
toxicated.
Drink ruins a woman's looks quicker
than anything else in the world tt
1ims her eyes, it washes out the roses
n her cheeks, ii puts fat on her figure.
Il puts folly in her heart. and makes
her do the things that she would give
her life to undo. It is a curse 20 men,
but IL is a curse and ruinatiOn to women
and that's why I urge all girls to join
ne on the water wagon--Copyrigh
1915, international News Service.