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declare that they will no longer employ a 

 physician who is not a teetotaler. 



But the above, to my mind, only indi- 

 cates the desperate fight the brewers and 

 distillers are making to hold their trade. 

 It is not to be wondered that in the whole 

 United States they have been able to find 

 well toward 40,000 doctors who might ac- 

 cept a gift of some choice whisky, and give 

 three or four lines of testimonial in return. 

 Drowning men, you know, catch at straws. 



This reminds me that, during the coming 

 week, the brewers of the United States will 

 hold a great conference in Cleveland, 0.; 

 and, saddest of all, the city mayor, Mr. 

 Baker, has consented to give them an ad- 

 dress of "welcome" to the chief city of 

 Ohio. Shall we not follow the railroad 

 companies again, and declare that we will 

 never vote for a mayor who consents tc 

 give an address of welcome to a conference 

 of brewers? 



WOMEN SMOKERS OF CIGARETTES AT THE 

 WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. 



It appears that a woman signing her- 

 self "Mi-s. Wilson Woodrow" has been pub- 

 licly defending women's rights to smoke 

 cigarettes; and I do not know but I agree 

 with her when she says that a woman has 

 as good a right to smoke cigarettes as men, 

 and 1 would add, just as good a right to 

 vote as men have. Well, this woman's 

 name, "Mrs. Wilson Woodrow," has been 

 confusing the public, as well it might, with 

 the name of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, the 

 wife of the presidential candidate; and be- 

 cause of this, Mrs. Wilson, for the first 

 time in her life, has come out in a public 

 statement. See the following, which we 

 clip from the Baltimore Sun of August 

 13: 



What Mrs. Wilson wished to have fully under- 

 stood was that, if she becomes the first lady of 

 the land, she will not, as has been said m a widely 

 distributed interview, have packages of cigarettes 

 in her personal desk at the White House, and 

 smoke them with her callers. 



Mrs. Wilson was represented as saying that she 

 thought a woman has as much right to a cigarette 

 as a man; that the existing prejudice against 

 women smoking is to the last silly and absurd; 

 that smoking cigarettes is a question of manners, 

 not morals; that it promotes good fellowship; that 

 some women feel that a cigarette calms their nerves 

 and helps their brains into working order, and 

 that she enjoyed a cigarette as she enjoyed after- 

 dinner coffee. 



It seems from the above (in all a rather 

 lengthy article) that the editor of the 

 Ohio State Journal wrote Mrs. Wilson a 

 letter, protesting emphatically, and below 

 is her reply: 



Dear Sir: — I have just received a copy of th« 

 Journal with your editorial entitled "Smoking 

 Women," and I beg leave to deny indignantly the 

 statement that I approve of women smoking cigar- 

 ettes. The interview upon which your editorial 



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was based is a pure invention. I intensely dis- 

 like the cigarette-smoking habit for women ; in 

 fact, so strong is my feeling on the subject that 

 my real danger lies in being unjust and unkind 

 in my judgment of those who differ with me ia 

 this respect. 



But certainly no woman in our household evei 

 has or ever will smoke. Quite apart from tho 

 bad taste of it, I believe with you that it has ao 

 extremely injurious effect on the nerves. 



Ellen A. Wilson. 

 (Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.) 



Governor Wilson has also given his in- 

 dorsement of her letter. 



Before dropping this matter let us con- 

 sider for a minute what was implied in 

 Mrs. Wilson's letter. If it were indeed true 

 that women folks at the Wliite House, or 

 at least some of them, have been in the 

 habit of keeping packages of cigarettes in 

 plain sight at the White House, and smok- 

 ing them with their callers, would it not 

 be about time that we should expect the 

 finger of the Almighty to write on the 

 wall, "Thou art weighed in the balance and 

 found wanting"? 



Perhaps it is no more than proper to 

 allude to what has been reported in one 

 way and another. See the following: 



TOBACCO ABSTINENCE. 



The columns of Our Homes department several 

 times have boasted that Mr. Theodore Roosevelt 

 does not use tobacco ; but has the editor noticed 

 how often our daily press contains items wherein 

 it is related that Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, in 

 an extremely brazen manner, parades to the public 

 the fact that she smokes, and is particularly fond 

 of the cigarette ? One might answer this with the 

 argument that the father should not suffer for the 

 daughter's wrong, and under some circumstance* 

 he should not. I am, however, enclosing a short 

 clipping, "The Campaign Cigarette," and can not 

 refrain from adding that, from what I can learn 

 of Mr. Roosevelt, he is the "boss," and I do not 

 think that his lieutenants would issue such an 

 article against his wishes. 



Lake Roland, Md., July 26. 



The clipping referred to above (also 

 from the Baltimore Sun) states that Roose- 

 velt's picture is on the packages of "cam- 

 paign" cigarettes. The question is, does 

 Ex-president Roosevelt know this? and 

 does such a course have his sanction? 



THE EARLY JOE APPLE IN NEW ZEALAND. 



Regarding the Early Joe apple, Messrs. Thos. 

 Horton, Ltd., nurserymen, of Hastings, N. Z., have 

 the above name in their catalog. Their description 

 is: "Pine little dessert apple; yellow, with red 

 stripes; ripe January [say July with you]; tree a 

 good cropper, and blight proof." Price 25 to 60 cts. 

 each; $2.50 to $7.50 per doz., etc. I will try to 

 find room for one sample, in view of its praise in 

 Gleanings, July 1st, and other issues. 



C. R. Bell. 



Otaki Railway, New Zealand, Aug. 3. 



GOOD READING MATTER FOR THE HOME, ETC. 



My husband and son, G. W. Hammond, who 

 is a subscriber to Gleanings, are both in the bee 

 business. Both are members of the Baptist Church 

 and I wish to thank you very much for the pure 

 reading-matter you are sending into my home every 

 month, especially the issue of Aug. 15. We are 

 for prohibition. May you prosper. 



Mrs. E. M. Hamuond. 



Bur rage, Mass., Aiig. 19. 



