A SAD EXAMPLE by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 13, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 11.

A SAD EXAMPLE.

By Editor

NEWS from the Old World informs us that the Czarina, Queen Margherita, and other royal women are all devotees of the cigaret. In Paris a tobacconist who was sued for advertising himself without authority as purveyor of cigarets to one of these royal ladies, proved that he regularly supplied her majesty with the article. This also includes queens of Portugal and Rumania and ex-queen Christina of Spain. What can we expect of the rising generation in these countries when those who stand at the head of the government and fashion set the example? It has been demonstrated again and again by medical examination and the logical facts of life that there are few things more ruinous to health and mind than cigaret smoking.

Recent investigations in Chicago have resulted in finding most shocking conditions among children, and yet conditions which have been quite well known to careful observers for years. The school authorities have had charge of the investigation, and have found that young boys and girls of what are called the best families are steeped in vice. And one teacher declares that these vices exist among the pupils of nearly every school in the city.