Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-08-07 | Page 1 | May Daughter of Teddy Smoke

Alleged Indulgence by Alice Roosevell-Longworth Stirring Stir-ring Up Trouble. f ANTI-CIGARETTE LEAGUE IS GETTINGVERY BUSY Young Woman, When Ques-s Ques-s fioiied, Positively Refuses to V Affirm or Deny Reports. II"I'II,vv'4'''4t'' J Two years ago a minister said ! A' Mrs, Longworth had cut the mini- -1 -I ber from forty to twenty pr dm Now the Katlonal Anti-Cigarette -j I- league asks lier to quit smoking1 or deny that she does. n In Nebraskko thoy arc Imploring ,,! her to ccaso hor "demoralizing"' v i' 4- example before boys and girls. 4- Boston declares Roosevelt's daugh- - J- tor should give grave thought to her " Influence over young girls. Gertrude Athortori declares it is J- provincialism to object to her smok- -J. ing on any other grounds than it is - unhealthy. . ' j ff By Leased Wire to The Tribune. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. The question as lo -whether Mrs. Alico Roosevelt-Longworth Roosevelt-Longworth and Miss Eleanor Sears should smoke cigarettes, is rapidly becoming be-coming a national one. The Christian Endeavor societies have taken the matter up and in all sections sec-tions of the country rcsolutiona are being be-ing adopted urging Mrs. Longworth and Miss Scars to stop tho use of cigarettes. Jftffffffft The National A.uti-Cigarettc leaguo lias oven gono the length of appointing a 'coinniit'too to wait on Mrs. Longworth und implore her, in the interest of the welfare of tho young girls of the country, coun-try, to eschew the delights of the " coffin cof-fin naii.,;. Over two years ago tho I?cv. Ionian B. Sterry, of Oborliu, Ohio, created a sonsation by a public address in which ho criticised Mrs. Longworth. ! "Mrs. Longworth." Dr. Starry is if, quoted as having said, "told a friend of mine that she succeeded in reducing L the, number of cigarettes she smoked 1 from 40 to 20 per day." Sinco that time thero have been I items occasionally alluding to tho smok- ' ing of cigarettes by Mrs. Longworth and other society yomen, notably Miss Sears. Nation-Wide Interest. Within tho past few weeks a veritable verit-able crusade has been inaugurated and from Boston to San Francisco, resolutions resolu-tions asking tho daughter of former President Roosevelt to refrain, have been adopted. i By far the most fervent prayer "to relinquish a habit that is condemned by all Christians and progressive citizens citi-zens or this, tho greatest nation in tho world,71 has been directed to Mrs. Long-n Long-n worth by the Christian Endeavor society of Fairbury, Nob. In a paragraph that links tho namoB of "Hinr who rules us all, and our bo-loved bo-loved Theodore Roosevelt," tho virtuous virtu-ous townspeople of Fairbury' implore "the lady who adorned the capital" to cease her demoralizing example beforo the rising citizenship, tho boys and girls of America." When asked in Cincinnati what she had to say about tho matter, Mrs. Long-worth Long-worth said; Lips of Alice Sealed. "I neither deny or affirm any stories that are in circulation about me, and never will, under any circumstances, gTant an interview' Miss Scars, the ether object of at-inck, at-inck, has written as follows': "To Mrs. Lucy Page Gaston, founder nnd superintendent of the Anti-Cig-arotto league. ,, "My Dear Mrs. nsfon Please ex- cuso me for not answering your letters '' before. I assure you the newspaper :, stories about me are very much exng- t geratcd, and most of them are not true at all. "I cortainly don't approve of women x Kmoldng cigarettes. 1 never smoke V them my sol f. U "Very truly yours, m ''ELEANOR R. SEARS." wV Mrs. Gaston is hopeful that she will ; bo able to enroll Miss Soars on her committee of 100 fashionable women ; agniust smoking for women.