Show I WHY WOMEN SMOKE AND GET SOME OF THE COMFORT MEN SEEM TO TAKE TAKE FROM THE WEED is THE rHE QUESTION ASKED BY A 1 W WOMAN MAN ANS worship of the Princess Nicotine has aroused womans wo womans womans mans Jealousy jeal Why should not women smoke if tf they like they cry through Mrs who ho her argument die Alee Alec Twee veins vein It If tobacco affords this went ment In should to men why so EO much ace highly strung their who are more and c more nervoUs by temperament b bu deprived of ot its soothing effects There Is 1 surely no harm in smoking so long Ions longas as It Is not done in excess Moderation la is all that hat is Ss required and yet ret moderation modera moderation tion In Jn every very department in life lite is what Is mp most t to find Watch a man smoking He Ha looks happy and contented his conversation Is 18 glib be he seems at peace with himself In n particular and the the world in general See Bee his pleasure why then than deny him tobacco so long as ho he does not smoke sm ke or expensive cigars than that he ho can afford af afford ford zord or or indulge in cigarettes more marc often than Ulan Is good for tor his health If then the man may smoke why tot the th woman wom nl And here let me ins e say tt et once once that th t personally I never amok and said never neer did But that Is no reason to object t to other WO nen doing so In fact I have known cases where wh re it has been actually act beneficial to a woman But Buthen hen alas I there are other cases where Sias done great harm barm and has only been persevered with ad as stupid vulgar bravado ido I have tried smoking opium id d kIt pipes cigarettes of ot all ail sorts and kinds and each one has given me less Jeas satisfaction than another For me tobacco tob cc holds no charms but this is not noto ItO o with everyone although alas more mole women seem se m to smoke because they think It smart amort than actually from tram pleas s sure tire sire Men afen r n usually hate hato to see their own wo womankind mankind smoke just as they hate their own wives and nn sisters to tg be as an anlOU loud lOU but they have bave no compunction In 4 th in other pe lea s s wi jis its s sand an and d sisters s and women flome arc aro s sometimes o met m j s S Jom e al d do stupid thing hey ibey areT r pleasing their if q contrary they and areT bedaf ei at t instead in instead stead tead In n almost r most all countries men smoke They find consolation consola on in doing some som thing whether in the form torm of ot smoking opium In China kill in Morocco a pipe in jn England or ot a In Germany whether at t sea or gum in America each in Its own way has b a a soothing effect Now if men find rind such consolation in tobacco or its equivalent Is there thera any justifiable able reason why women wo women women men should not enjoy that pleasure too The professional man smokes away his hl cares and clears his bis mind for tor fresh endeavors The he tired art artist artIst artist takes up pp his pipe and while puffing away contemplates his lils picture and ponders pon ponders ponders ders over the relative tones middle dis distance tance tanco atmospheric effects brush work and oUter other technicalities Speaking generally every nationality smokes but usually only the male por portion portion tion except among the lower orders for the old women of or Scotland the ancient an ancient dames of ot Ireland enjoy their pipes tend and d so do the ancient Aztecs of Mexico or the women of pt faraway Iceland in Ift the higher classes of ot women the greatest smokers are probably the Rus Scandinavians and Italians ns al although although although though England Is running r them m pretty close today American women generally so advanced do not smoke at least I 1 never saw an American woman smoking either cither in a private house o at an a hotel There may be exceptions but they must be rare I 1 cannot personally p see why a woman woman should hould not smoke if it it gives gi es her any pleasure but let her avoid vold doing so In public places To see a woman smoking at our big restaurants always gives elves ma me maa maa mea a little shiver especially as she ohe general ly does it more than thou front from real pleasure and assumes an air of ot lOOk at me Please pleasS pI which is neither me meSo ladylike la nor nol pleasing So many women w men work their brains b today not only at a profession but bun over oer manifold domestic duties which are often far more exhausting and exacting than paid work w rk that If It a cigarette lg etto soothes their nerves or brings then them any pleasure they should surely not be he do de denied flied bled that Joy Of Ot course tobacco can be harmful and often is but that is when it jt JIIn is in indulged in to excess There is iz a disease dJs e known as tobacco bacco t blindness In which it itis itis is difficult to distinguish colors more especially red Then there Is such Bucha a athing athing thing as a smokers rs tongue in tact fact there lucre are as many diseases attributed to too tobacco as the list of ot Homers ships There seems no doubt that tobacco to acco in i excess means mea mischief s It causes palpitation palpitation palpitation tation of at the heart dyspepsia loss of o of appetite een even brings on on paralysis blunts the memory memory produces a nasty cough and the smokers tongue above referred to may end nd in jn cancer can r Yes there are arc terrible things In store s re for forth forthman the theman theman man or woman wh smokes too too much and the little simple cigarette does more harm than the bigger hisser pipe or cigar If U Uwe we we are to ve all we read rend women women must beware of ot too many cigarettes Last year in n Mexico I 1 saw sate a small boy not quite 3 2 years old smoking a big clear cigar It was down is in the Southern or tropical part of ot the country at a abig abig big tobacco hacienda or farm Every Everyone Everyone J one on was rolling cigars when they had nothing else eiso to do and men women and children all aU smoked these green en weeds The small boy was waS munching a banana In one hand band while with theother the tho theother other he was attending to his cigar which he ho h puffed at most professionally Four or five a day was his allowance He Hew was a JL fine tine sturdy little chap and his brothers br and sisters had grown up upwell upwell upwell well and strong showing the adaptability Wilty lUty of ot children to climate and environ environment environment ment In our country tobacco is known to stunt growth In youth and do much harm h rm but then we do not live in the tropics and we eat meat me t while these live almost entirely on fruit and nd beans at the Southern haciendas das daB Still Sti J the baby smoker sm ker was a strange sight and made mo wonder the child survived at all aU aUIt It is interesting to note how bow many manYen teen men en have worked under the Influence of or tobacco and how others have never smoked at alL Among the smokers may maybe maybe maybe be mentioned Thackeray Carlyle Carlyl Herbert Her Herbert Herbert bert Spencer George Meredith Rudyard Ru ard Kipling Frankfort Moore J 1 Y M Barrie Captain Marshall Mark Twain Bis Bismarck Bismarck Bismarck marck of ot course was w s an enormous smoker but men smoke more in Ger Germany Germany many meny and England tt n in America Amedea or France On the other nand hand two of ot our greatest statesmen Gladstone and Lord Salisbury like and Frederick Harrison ny rice n to mention a host of ot oth others other ers er were Ind nd are am nonsmokers No ruto ru can apparently be drawn some som pee le like lIle tobacco and others do donot donot donot not If It a woman really enjoys an oc occasional smoke and feels it does her good it seems only right that she should quietly ly indulge her little weakness But It is sad to see se a a young yun girt girl smoking as a habit ana anti b being ng laughed augh d at and sneered at st behind her be back by her men friends whom she fondly Y imagines agin es she aho 8 he is pleasing Jt It Is extraordinary how few like to see women smoke probably probably ably because they know the th bulk of ot wo women women women men smokers only do it because they think it Is 15 being smart No man could woman a oraan enjoying the same solace sOI c juf he does himself so long ions as she shee does oes f it H and j oJ t w I |