Show NOT UNDER COMPULSION A N New w York alderman has pushed through an ordinance forbidding women to smoke in public places Some women ha have e congratulated him while hile others a large crowd arc are hurling maledictions upon him The They are arc not themselves given to the smoke habit but with the spirit that caused Falstaff to re refuse refuse fuse to give a reason on compulsion even though reasons might be more than blackberries cs while they do not smoke they insist that an ordinance ordinance ordinance nance that permits men to smoke but makes it ita a misdemeanor for a woman to do the same is is' dynamite dynamite dyna dyna- mite to the thievery very palladium of American liberty and it is clear from reading their protest that it it itis is all ll that man many of them can cnn do to keep from loading up with a of cigars going on the street and smoking amok amok- lug ing until obliged to do what the lord high admiral his sisters his cousins and amid his aunts did in Pinafore Pin Pina a. a f fore re when the winds did blow and the they so sought the seclusion that the thc cabin granted Of ot course thc these c cladies ladies that have havo filed their protest against the offending aldermen would not associate ate with the women who wIo smoke in public and they do not stop to consider that while they hold to that determination tion the ordinance will remain a dead letter so far fara faras faras a as ladies arc are concerned i thc l p are arc too angry to reflect at all while the ordinance stands th that t they arc forbidden to do what a worthless man is permitted l to do cIo with impunity |