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Show WOMAN SAYS "LET MEN SMOKE." Philadelphia Physician Astounds Sisters Sis-ters at Club Meeting. "J-et men smoke. Good tobacco, used moderately, is a sedative for the nerves You can no more stop men smoking than you can stop them breathing." This opinion, uttered by Dr. Rachel Skldelsky, was tho bomb which created cre-ated consternation at the meeting of tho Woman's club In the home of Mrs. J A. B. Nesblt the other day, says the Philadelphia North American. When she had finished half a dozen women wanted the floor simultaneously. simultaneous-ly. There was a long discussion, in which "my husband" was frequently quoted as an authority. The temerous statement of Dr. Skl-delsky Skl-delsky was made In reply to a remark made by Dr. Harriet P. Westbrook, who was a speaker at the last meeting of the National Municipal league. She was shocked and embarrassed, she said, because nearly all the men were smoking. "This," she said, "was net only booritfh, but most unpleasant to me, as I could not get rid of the smell of tobacco to-bacco in my clothes for a week." |