The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-14
Visitors SELECT and Debuantes Honoted Many Brilliant Fun
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tributes to mother from the
,,,rld.s greatest men are subscribed
hers and In reading them and hHv-
Inc our heart keep time In great
throbs to every word said by them
ws who have know the love OF the
mother heart and felt her influences
and love through our lives; some
who have lost her and still have her
,nGuence with them, know that In
these great loves and influences oil
ne. that we are akin.
III | had all the mothers ever
saw to choose from, l would have
chosen you. my ther.'--Carlyle.
"In memory my mother stands
snart from all others, wiser. purer
doing more, and living better than
any other woman. Alice Cary.
"In after life you may have friends
but never will you again have the
,ncxpressble love and gentleness
lavlshcd upon you which a mother
bestows. ."--Macaulay.
"You have been the best mother
- believe tho best woman, in the
world. | thank you for your indul-
yence 20 me, and beg forgiveness for
led to do well"--Dr. johnson.
"What would not give to call my
dear mother back to earth for a sim
gl, day, TO ask her pardon on my
knees for all those acts by which 1
grievod her gentle spirit.'-Charles
Lamb.
MY mother was an angel on earth.
She has been u spirit from above
watching over me for good. Without
her the world feels to me like a soli-
tude John quincy Adams.
"All | am, all that hope to be,
owe TO my angel mother. Blessings
on her memoryl | remember my
mothers prayers. Tney have always
followed me. They nave clung 10
me all my life. Lincoln.
1T is to my mother that l owe
everything. If l did not perish long
ago In sin and misery, 1t is because
OF the long and faithful years in
which she pleaded for me. What
comparison IS there between the
honor | paid her and her slavery for
me?'-St. Augustine.
Burton Donnel Hughes in a recent
issue of the Philadelphia North
American soiiloquizes in satirical
mood about avoiding the Common
place" and deals directly with the
great international habit of women
smoking. 1t Is interesting to read
what Mr.. Hughes says:
Should a woman smoke? The
answer 10 that question is easy; it is
simply, Should a man wear lace
insertion underwear fragrant with
the purple perfume of gardenias?"
fHu 60 h. 4 -
statute making a given fabric and
mode OF underclothing de rigeur for
men. It's individual taste. IL n
woman smokes, it's individual taste.
too. This is free country. in some
respects. one respect Is that we are
iree to form our own opinions. We
form our opinions about a person by
the way we react to the way he
looks, what he says and does. OF
course. the accuracy OF our opinion
governed by our own mental quail
luR. So much for that. The point
Is, what do we think about a woman
smoking? The next point is what
90 We think about the instincts she
mas that make her want to smoke?
We prefer to believe that she does
II for the effect 1t produces on her
environment and not for the effect
IL produces on her nerves. Does the
average woman who smokes realize
now the average human being thinks
OF htr? Picture a nice round, fat,
pink baby boy with starry blue eyes
as he lay on his back rapturously
eurgling over the discovery of his
toes, how he blows few bubbles
oy way OF not too egotistically at
tractng his mothers attention to
ihe Aforesaid toes, picture her rush
ing over to his crib to share his ex-
ctenent and pride, pausing en- route
70 lick the ashes from her after
breakfast cigarette. Then the proud
atheE enters, his broad muscular
physique emanating the purple frag-
rance OF gardenias from his lace-in-
serted handmade lingerie that is con-
eealed beneath the bathrobe that he
used TO wear in college when run
nlng back I'd the locker-room after
arIeIs track meets.
There is no reason on earth that a
woman shouldn't smoke II she wants
o and no reason 4 man shouldn't
wear a bit OF perfumed lace II no
wants to, but there are reasons why
saey want to do these things. The
Ieasons why woman wants to
s,noke are what concern us at pres
- ''lltli bIuOheIS originated IN
ms country. We family feel dis
aalhtnl smiles from all those who
pictuie Turkish ladies with kohl
oideked eyes serenely smoking be-
neath an indigo sky and livid yellow
mum However, the Indian squaws
MeEe me first female smokers ever
@ @n ny European eyes and those
o oses belonged to the commander and
sseWs OF the Pinta. Nina and the
Sania Maria, when they docked on
e morning OF October IL, 2,1492. /;
Wpoh a long time for the ladies' In
% as hemisphere, that is those ladies
nose ancestors came from Europe
nSe hme mat date. to learn to smoke.
ahu the ladies' on the other side
""otn they copied have, not, at least
, 1he outset did not move In the
pure white set.
we somehow feel that every
"ohan starts smoking in order 10
,ssest scarlet streak somewhere
ne not scarlet but a decided
i'nh' society In general takes one
I'm ma furnishes the scarlet. Mex:
diso u seIt-constituted health advisers
Sono Soover al the horrible things they
sIope WIZ happen TO the persons who
~, what they personally don't like
so ~ 40, Then the fun begins. The
oIet grows scarleter and tho dis.
yS sas numerically increase, and with
,ns,l increase become more subtle
fs1u'ousIy pathological. Now we
nave the ideal ipspira,Io, ,h., IT,.