Quite Right: Gloves, Cigars, and Self-Denial

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 28, 1877

Quite Right: Gloves, Cigars, and Self-Denial

QUITE RIGHT.—A New York lady takes Dr. Tyng, jr., to task for saying that if all the women in his congregation would give up “three-button gloves” and wear one-button, the saving would be enough to secure a support for his orphan house. She asks: “Why, if there is self-denial to be exercised, is it always required of women?” and concludes with this close-fitting observation: “If Mr. Tyng does not succeed with his gloves, let him try upon cigars; there would be more saving than in gloves. He would gain by it, and the men of his congregation would be cleaner and live longer.”