Women Smoking.—A news item from New York under date of January 2 declares that permission to allow women to smoke in public dining rooms, introduced at one of the prominent Broadway restaurants on New Year's Eve, is so successful that another large restaurant has immediately followed suit, and it is expected that several more will do the same. It is a horrible thing to think of. It is bad enough to see men smoking, but to see women degrade themselves to the coarsening, benumbing habit is monstrous.