Society Leaders by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 9, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 31.

Society Leaders.

By Editor

And now the newspapers are telling us that Miss Eleanor Sears, the Boston heiress who wears men's clothes and delights in doing masculine things, is smoking, and is leading other society women in the same direction; and she tells us, with the wonderful wisdom of the years that she has, "I don't think moderate cigaret smoking has any baneful effect on a woman morally or physically," but good doctors who are not steeped in nicotin fumes will tell us that it affects women in both these ways. Yet the paper that gives us this interview quotes Miss Sears as saying, "There are many society women who are inveterate cigaret smokers, and they have thereby injured themselves very much." There are others, she declares, who do not smoke, simply because they do not care for it. The article tells us that Boston is shrugging its shoulders and saying, "Well, if Eleanor is going to make us smoke cigarets, I suppose sooner or later we will all be smoking cigarets." Such is the power of wealth by example. If Miss Sears were a poor working girl she would be considered a silly freak.