Smoking Women by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 29, 1908

Smoking Women

By Editor

Smoking Women.—And now the smoking fad has struck San Francisco society women; and the report is that two wealthy leaders of society puffed their dainty cigarets in public in a prominent cafe in San Francisco. Following this will come the apes, the imitators, of the fashionable set. It is disgusting, unwomanly, degrading. Of course, it was to be expected that the private vices would sooner or later crop out in public, and following these things will be more shameless practises. No woman can pursue such a course and remain pure in mind and thought, and beyond that lies Sodom. These are among the curses of wealth; a curse to its possessors, and their follies a curse by example to those who would imitate, and to the heritage they leave to the future. "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away." Let the past teach thee.