A New Movement Against Tobacco
By Editor
A New Movement against Tobacco.—What is called "The Order of the Orange Blossom," has just been started in Whittier. It is composed of young women, we learn from the Pacific Prohibitionist, who take the following pledge: "I pledge posterity and our Maker to accept as intimate companion no young man who uses tobacco in any form, or alcoholic beverages, or unmanly language. And I pledge my example and influence against such degrading habits—securing signatures to this pledge from young women and young men personally and by mail." The Whittier W. C. T. U. have endorsed it in the following resolution: "Resolved, That we, as a W. C. T. U., most cordially endorse the 'Whittier Memorial Pledge,' believing it to be a blow not merely at the foul tobacco habit, but at many evils allied with it. And we urge young women everywhere to sign and circulate this pledge as a means of standing together to demand true nobility and purity, health of body and mind, in the future fathers of our nation." It is hoped that this will become a national or world movement. Twenty-five of these pledges may be had for ten cents in silver from "The Order of the Orange Blossom," Claremont, California. We hope American girls will push it along. It is too bad that a "mere man" (Prof. G. W. Savory) had to originate it, or is at least the visible object in so doing; but he has done a savory thing for society. At a meeting in Whittier, 1,000 pledges were taken; and we hope the girls will stick to it, and pass it on.