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Show CLINIC FOR WOMEN SMOKERS HELD Chicago, March. 13. A clinic for women smokers was established today to-day by the Anti-Cigarette league which has been successful in break-1 Ing of the cigarette habit boys who have appeared hi the juvenile court. The treatment is simply spraying the throat with a solution of nitrate of silver. "Fifteen women have already been treated by us," asserted Lucy Page Gaston, president of the league. "Our first visitor was a chorus girl. One of her associates taught her how to Inhale and the habit obtained such a hold on her that she often rose In the night for a smoke. "We are opening the clinic because we believe there are thousands of girls and women in Chicago who would rid themselves of the vvice if they had the opportunity. It) Is intended in-tended to treat women smokers who are sent to the house of correction, i |