Show I Women Who Sm Smoke ke I IB BY B BV L FRANCES L L. GArISH T THE lIE corporation counsel of ot NewYork New JL York in ha having decided that women wom worn en have full right to smoke in public ideal of oC every es-erv womanhood mu must t undergo undergo un un- dergo a a. radical chan change e to meet this modern female who i is coming Into i I view with Avith a pipe in her mouth A place must be made macic for or her In poetry fiction letlon art song and history and while at first the task seems I stupendous to write Ito a poem about dainty lips lipa that aro are closed over o a n two- two for tI ih th thought of or a Madonna of the Pipe is 15 shocking Venus with I a cigarette cigar 1 ette in her mouth and no hands light it Is a 0 blow to ones one's to sense ease of oC the I I artistic and ter-der ter s Songs about Just j a n Pipe at Twilight seem bc beyond com comI com com- I and and achievement nt-alC nt all all' the the-so and more will sill be easy to ar ari at- at i range compared with ith I finding a pl place i In the tho homo home for tor the woman who j smokes es The rue woman who goes down into her I shopping bag and digs under powder I rags recipes for face lotion old letI letters let let- let let-J tel'S and samples of ot silk for tor a a. package I of cigarettes will look Jook reckless s and and- abandoned when smoking in a public I hotel hote 1 o or restaurant ur t but but infinitely 0 I InH nie Wi anu un tenfold ten- ten 1 fold more lost to a sense of or refine refine- i m nt and decency when she sho lights up J In her hec own home in the presence o of J her husband and children If It It Is In the parlor surrounded by Lift Lp mottoes on the wall an dinner after cigar at the dining S table in her kitchen or be bedroom bedroom bed bed- room working working- with a batch of bread 1 or a batch of or babies the woman who I smokes will be a a. sight giving any 1 man a legal egal and moral right to tieD flee from home The argument may be raised that a a. woman smoking will not look worse than a man but there are areno no adherents of oC women's rights and privileges so 50 aggressive e so insano that thc they will contend that a a. woman won with a n bab baby at h her brea breast r t can p put t 3 a pipe in her mouth and claim ment and respectability on a par with that of the man who smokes while white reading a nC newspaper When hen Christmas comes father will work off orr on moth mother r and the girls irla some ome of the innumerable pipe racks smoking ing Ing- sets pipes and cheap cigars that have o been unloaded on him bin for Cor many manya a Christmas Christma past and It h Is going to knock the halo off oCt grandmothers grandmother's brow to reat read in her list of ot what she wants Santa Sant Claus Clans to bring bring- he her a a. meerschaum pipe to color In her declining declining de tie- clining dining as ays though the halo which tradition has given woman has had such a slant o of recent years Jears because of or the amount of ral false e hair worn under under under un un- un- un der it it wont won't take much more o of a Jolt to knock It oft off anyway A frequent cause of oC family dissen- dissen sion Zion Is fathers father's habit of walking past ash trays to drop rop burnt matches and ashes on mothers mother's pet fern tern Will she also get et th the habit of ignoring ash ashtrays ashtrays tra trays s 's Father has also been guilty gUm of or scratching matches on the walt wall wal- paper papel Will m mother scratch them m. m there Father has often otten refused to fused o take tal-ce the bab baby because he i is smokIng and it might burn itself on his cigar Who Vho is going to take the baby wh n mother also lights up I When a man sees a a. woman smoking ing log In public the shock loses its full force Coree in a a. sense of oe gratitude that the woman doesn't belong to him a jO Joy he will miss when a woman in his family gets gots out her pipe pipe- at home It will bo be serious enough when the apparently apparently ap ap- homeless s woman smokes In public places but the won woman who v smokes es in her homo home has a home and shouldn't violate Its sacredness There aro are some ri rights beyond tho granting of a corporation counsel and arid beyond tho the reach of the ballot The 1110 right of smoking like a man and re retaining re- re taming the thc refinement of a woman 15 is isone one of or them |