Show AIJOUr CIUAllla1 I The newspapers In Illinois with few exceptions are urging the jnsiage I by the lego lure ot that state ol a law I iroMUtlug Ibo Palo 1 of cigarettes lo bar In Us advocacy ol Ibo propmd legislation the Chicago TluniHcacl says toyitWhather Wbothor the Learn and prayers 01 good woman will pravall against the persuasive begullomonta of the tobacco trust la conjectural but men who have not yet lot iliojr faith lu Ibo potency of a mother a n I to sure that the wo jigicat men III 1 Tee women I r Cliloago 1 are working earnestly for the enactment or this measure but It I la I dIUIoull to Im prona the members of the legislature with Importance of abating by legislation legis-lation an evil that la I creating auci b even among he boy or eUool age 10 Cbleago Tile we men Tbo are urging tbla legislation bate actual personal knowledge of tho lu duoyol our pron Iwlo eavo Ibo 7u Irom the banolul olltortto hbll Tho 11I01 oorn a ad vocal 01 Iho 111I I are tho teachers who have soon tile mind and bodies 01 hundreds boy Blunted by clgarotio I amoklng 1 ho habit aecma r clgatedtlumuioking ra f a so to stray the louse of looral to I aponslblllty If any good la I lo be aucompllBhcd I by anticigarette legislation Joel ai such legislation la I directed against the sale and use ol opium and other drug by all means 11 us have the good But there teems to ba at lean one Other place besides legislative hollo where those mothers ot Illluoli or of other states might accomplish more against the cigarette habit than Is I now being done by the statute book that ether place to I In their own lumea If the boy were loujht In early life the evils that roll from cigarette smoking not merely forbidden to smoke but have U explained lo them why they should abhor the cigarette and those who use II II mothers would not bo so certain that I their eons do not fall Into the habit because be-cause those mothers do not detect early and would watch their children as being as liable as are cnlMrcu ol other mothers It they would teach their daughters by example and precept pre-cept to bun the clgaretta uicr as too unclean for oompanlonfthlr there would be little need for the wlshedfor legislation Ono great trouble with the homes In this country la that parents look too much to tho law and too little to borne training and Intellectual force to guard their children from ill This laxity In I home instruction nod discipline one 6f 1 the most potent causes of the de slruotlon of the sense of moral responsibility re-sponsibility Ihe loss I It entails maybe may-be prevented In part but cannot hi made up by autlclgarette autlllnuor or other similar legislation |