Women, Men, and Tobacco
By Editor
A noted Chicago physician, addressing the Young Women's Christian Association at Springfield, Massachusetts, told it that the gowns worn by women in New England are wickeder than those worn by the women of any European country except France, and that the most "suggestive city" in America is Boston. A Philadelphia preacher denounces a well-known society woman for permitting the smoking of cigarets at an entertainment, and declares that she and her husband should be tarred and feathered. And yet why has not a woman as good a right to smoke cigarets as a man? Of course it looks worse, because it is not conventional, we are not used to it; but after all, is it any worse? Why would it not be infinitely better if neither women nor men smoked? At the very best, the use of tobacco is worthless, and at its worst it is a very multum in parvo of evils.