Show I I i I I l I I I t tr r t r ts s t ts s t e t r r t r MATRIMONY BY DR M MADISON DISON G. G PETERS By Dr Madison W. W Peters The number of women smokers is on tho the increase the habit or rather vice has entered into many many circles circle's of society society socie ty so that we find the cigarette on the room drawing table of the society b belle belleas lle as well as on the hall liaR room bureau of the working girl Time was when to smoke was to be socially ostracized but nowadays its use is hi highly fashionable am among ng many classes Woman is mans man's rival in business and the professions she Bhe claims rights in everything drawing no line of distinction distinction distinction dis dis- even imitating him in dress and manners Why not follow him in his vices I Why not drink and smoke and play the races gamble and swear swear 1 The mannish woman is undermining our social structure and doin doing away with the sanctity of the tho American home hone It n is womans woman's influence which shapes and draws out all that is good and noble in us and suppresses all that is bad and debasing delasin but let woman once forfeit our respect she loses that influence influence ence and her power for good is irrevocably irrevocably irrevocably gone one And the woman who smokes who pollutes pollutes pol lutes Intes her ruby lips with the noxious weed and stains her taper fin fingers ers with the deadly nicotine not alone forfeits the respect of all right thinking men but she draws down upon herself a just condemnation and aDd excites disgust Woman is constructed on lines Jines radically radi radio cally eally different from man she has a amore amore amore more delicate organism and her nervous nero ncr system is more finely strung and therefore more susceptible to the poi poisonous fumes of nicotine a woman who indulges es for any len length th of time in smoking smoking ing inevitably becomes a nervous wreck Womans Woman's s 's holiest mission in the world is motherhood The use tue of tobacco to toa a II great de degree ree nullifies this mission The nerves are so unhinged ed an and the potential potential potential po po- vigor so sapped that degeneracy degeneracy degen degen- of the race follows The smoker generally loses mental menta tone and aud power to concentrate the attention attention at on any subject for an extended time The brain is s the seat and center center conter cen con ter of the nervous system and when that system is disarranged tho the brain mu must t suffer Some Somo New York women omen V have gone gene so far as to have smoking rooms fitted up tip for themselves I have hwe seen in what wha is called high society high society high society run low after after the dinner inner hour women smoking with men A few years ago smoking among society society so society women was talked or ot with bated breath Now many married women in society would not consider themselves a aall atall nt at all fin de steele if they neglected their cigarette These women won wont won't t allow their daughters or sin single le sister to smoke no not because they ha have a any nr conscientious scruples about smoking but simply because because be cause they have come to look upon upon i it as one of the luxurious distractions distraction which become necessary only after th the nerves have been worn and torn That the women in Spain France England Turkey Russia and other Eu European European countries smoke is no argument in In favor or of smoking for there are ate many other habits amou among these women which American mothers would not dare to associate with the lives of their daughters or lady friends The man man in in his cups cups may call the smoking woman a a jolly jolly good good fellow but in In his sober Bober moments he thinks he hea her hera a jolly bi big goose The Theman man may rilay take takeout takeout out such for for a J a woman a good time but he lie wont won't marry her and if he docs does hp ho won wont won't t sta stay married If men why should not women wo wo- men menT T I do o not dony deny the inborn ri right ht of women to smoke any more than I deny woman womans woman's 5 right tight equal to that of man to tell a story such as men often tell among amont themselves but somehow the woman who tells the story is never quite luite the tho same woman that she was be before ore Wh When n woman to whom when we look instinctIvely instinctively in in- for all th that t is sweet ane and good falls short of the standard man sets for her and add believes believe to be hers her influence for good is is gone forever If the sexes have ha to be equalized I would rather it were done dOTe by refining the tue men inca than by the wo men V |