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bar-room and a smoking-car." It is cheering to 

 know that Secretary Folger issued an order for- 

 bidding smoking in the halls or rooms of the 

 Treasury. This is understood to be, in part, an 

 act of consideration toward the lady clerks, who, 

 he saw, were greatly annoyed by the universal 

 cigar. 



Concerning this example, so worthy of imitation, 

 the New York Evening Post remarks : w The order 

 is not acceptable to the male clerks, the great ma- 

 jority of whom are accustomed to smoke at all 

 times during business hours. The abuse of smok- 

 ing has been very great. Since Secretary Bris- 

 tow's time, the secretaries themselves, not only 

 have not forbidden smoking, but have smoked at 

 their desks. Even in the file-rooms, where valu- 

 able papers are stored in lofts of pine-wood par- 

 titions, the custodians have often been seen with 

 cigars. Secretary Folger's order forbidding this is 

 strictly a revival of the order which has been in 

 disuse since Secretary Bristow's time." 



In view of the alarming increase of the use of 

 tobacco among children, the Boston Woman's 

 Christian Temperance Union sent a circular with 

 several tracts on the subject to all the teachers 

 and officers of the public schools of Boston and 

 the suburbs. 



In November, 1882, a statement appeared in 

 the Boston Journal to the effect that seventy-five 

 per cent of school-boys over twelve or thirteen 

 smoke cigarettes. A Cambridgeport teacher places 



