The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, February 09, 1908, Image 31

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Newspaper Page TextI THE OREGON SUNDAY. JOURNAL, ' PORTLAND, SUNDAY? lORNING FEBRUARY 9, '. 1908 J! 4 V ; , . t , , , I ' t . , Cigarettes in Public Cafe's the; Sequel of Giddy. Merraldng ; ' A WARM, white cloud, exhaled in ynf graceful curves from' warm, red, Hps, ; whose curves are more graceful, more delicate, more perfect. " V v ascends slowly, heavily, until it pales into blueness and cloys the honest air, reeking and foul. , v The face below i relaxing into the opi ate dulhess oh mere animal enjoyment, or flashing into the fire of purely animal onlma- tion, seems to have breathed out, in the redo lent cloud, the soul that was distinguiihingly human. . . . Y '' This the modern American girl the supposedly pure, eleari-mintied, wholesome American girl with her cigarette And above her, lost, if it be not the soul her for bears used to work and tray to save, at least the modesty which has been for generations its most lovely attribute. - Who shall say whether the disaster has come of the. liquor that goes with the tobacco , or the tobacco, that goes with the liquor, or the appalling conditions that have attended the popular advent of both? But no one can 'deny that the opening days and nights and the still few first weeks of the year IQ08 give evi dence of smoking, drinking and utter lack of moral discretion such as never before dis mayed those who most love and cherish that miracle of the ages, that admiration of the world, the American girl and woman. NEVER before haa there been ao fnucb amoklng by women In public placea aa haa been aeen hie winter. In New York, Chicago and other great centera of population thla waa one of tha moat noticeable featurea of the rlotoua New Year's Eve celebration. 1 'This took" tne form nf a menn piously by the New York Board of Aldermen, prohib iting BUCh exhibitions of fminln. Immnriaatv mm Viv Shocked the more Strait-laced nt that ltv rercntlv This ordinance, given here, explains Itself: No Jperjon, Arm,, partnership, corporation or associa tion, of whatever character, owning or controlling, either as proprietor or manarer, any hotel, restaurant, place of public entertainment or other place of publlo raiort. In the city of New York, in which people meet and congre gate, whether for purposes of refreshment or entertaln- , ment. ahall allow any female to smoke In any such hotel, restaurant, place f publlo entertainment or other place of publlo re;ort. ,uoh an act bein construed aa'ln con travention of tne provisions of subdivision 14 ot Section 4 of the Greater New York charter. , . y Any violation of the provisions of this ordinance, upon .convlutlon thereof, before a city magistrate,- shall be pun ishable by a fln of not less than 15 nor more than IDS: ,r by Imprisonment in the city prison, or by both: but no such imprisonment, however, shall exceed a term of ten days ' , " ii.ui vi provocation to awaken New York to a sense of shameless conditions. What, then, brought about this official prohibition T Let ua indulge In retrospect. - j.neuij' (on xv, tin ntjaiBiie imoKia oy women was a badge ot infamy in England. It was the shock- -ing attribute ot foreign adventuresses who sought to iwift u'-'i I. ... miBiiBii aoviety. Je rome K. Jerome implanted its permanent condemna tion in the English language, when he attached it to villains, male and female, of his "Stagemnd." . The Spanish woman, the Italian, even the French and the daring KuBsians might indulge In their ciarar- ette. and, within their own countries and their own circles, forfeit no quality of their oaste. But for tha English woman it was depravity; for the American, abomination. Within only two decades within the brief lifetime a u . i i Vvsin s- w a. . a land ha 9 capitulated, and America, which fa ao younr 1 i.M m .a 4 .l ... " ill vuaiiuuiJUllLeiialgitii siu rav J v UU(( H, ViUB, alRfl learned SOME CONTRASTS ' It has not come unf ought. Where the genuine cosmopolitanism of London brought to luncheons, at which cigarettes 'for the ladles were regarded as something necessary, various members of the royal lainuy ana ins moei renuea women 01 ins unn.r classes of society, American states, like Wisconsin, passed bills ao drastic that all persons were forbidden to Dring cigarettes across tne ooraers.'. TVtiAA .11 .U T nnrfnn Mitiiinnt..'...l.nJ''il.. fashionable Ones, accepted the after-dinner cigarette of their fair clienteles as the ordinary and eminently proper course of events, Indiana went to the extreme' of repressive law - and made It a. crime for a woman to eo much as have a sheet of cigarette paper in her possession. V : , ' , . .. .... t But tbe'Arosrlcan woman and the American girl, fondly aided and abetted by adoring hubanda end lovsrs eunbltlous at quality with tha Old World In everything tbat maant luxury, enjoyment and. above : all. fashion, overlaepad at ft bound all tha raatralata , and prejudlcee-and all tha safeguards which attend ad tha adoption of tha cigarette by tha plaaaaa whoaa ; practices they emulated. ''' They brought it noma with' tham whan thay ra turnad from London, whara thay bahald thair own compatriot, married ta titled Englishman, leading tha naw and agreeable mode. - . At private luncheon, at exolualvely "glrr affairs, at faahlonabl achoola. In rigid secrecy, tha cigarette habit apread. - It galnad tha indorsement at aoolaty aa aamathing proper to tna una of marriage, ana jeweiea elgaratta !rs, coating from 1100 to flOQ, btoams faaturaa among wedding present a couple of yaara ago, wnen women coniriDutea tneir anare 10 yne con sumption of tha 10,111,000,000 clgarattea, Turkish, Vlr- 1 ' (- r r jVl it ginia and Havana, that were made In the United State during the fiscal year. For a little time, tha leading reatauranta of New York wondered whether they would ruin their repu tation. If they permitted women to amoka and for a little longer time, tha women who did amoka tried to condone tha publicity by a discretion that waa almoat aurreptitious. But the hotel of the great entry port of the coun try were confronted by the dealre of foreign guest notably those from Austria and Germany to have lib erty with their tobacco; they could not afford to ap pear "provincial." Tha cigarette had lta way there and American women were at once ready to assert their rlghta and privileges. The woman with her own monogram on her cigar ette followed the woman who made bar own aelec ;ion of some favorite brand at tha tobacconist's. The '4 Twnly-five RULES FOR SPEECH, lev .him eft aa ht Tsui ; ut him s'tas hst is ustrui,: 1ST him secK mt kcsssnt; 1ST NIM TKU NO DISaORCCAOLC trutm; LSTHIM tTTI NO AORCCABCC rALSEHOOO. THIS la tms ETERNAIf UW a mmrnnm, whcri aat ooiita rot ncvsnminop JUST rOLLOW rat SIGNBOARD that utrm ttDH. AND DO TMS DUTY that NEAREST LIES, FOR THAT IS THt PATHWAY TO PARADISE. mmmmmmmmm uu WNtiiia vuoa.. NINO HEARTS at thi OARDEN, hiho THOUOHTSJ aas ths ROOTS, KINO WORDS at rat BLOSSOMS, KIND DEEDS aas Tat FRUITS. 1908 FEBRUARY 1 2nd Mo. run SUH WON TVS miD TMU rei SAT CREATE tH BE A CHAM HDLRT. OH f GOD. 0-3456T5rO 9 1011121131415 16181980122 231125126127128129 RENEW A RIGHT SPIRIT WITHIN MC T TWENTY-FIVE years ago a prominent busi ness mim of Philadelphia, a member of the Society td Friends, had printed jtf1r5eat , number of calendars, which he distributed gratuitously. . " What was remarkablo about the calendars wag that on every leaf, above the arrangement of days, r. 4 fS' a Jl girl who had amoked, while aha trembled at audacity, during her schooldaya, now smoked. her un- uuiBa, oeiore tne wnoia. wide world. And aa many drank. , Secret drinking, even more than public drinking, naa so long been the object of universal condemna tion from tha pulpit and from the presa, that It haa become an old story n evil that la too commonplace to atlr Interest, a thing to be relegated to the homt Uea of tha paator and the advice of the physician. But tha apectacla of young women,, who are little aRp of Sikitt were three, four or five mottoes, the sort of motto which, after reading in. the morning, sticks in one's mind all day. Through a printing house these cal endars were sent to churches, hospitals, schools and various institutions all over the country. The donor remained unknown. Since then, each year, these calendars have been issued always anonymouslyuntil today they are sent to all parts of the world, and the annual dis tribution numbers many hundreds of thousands. Last fall the mysterious donor of the calen dars died, and now the members of his family through the publishers announce that they will continue the unique philanthropy But they give iio cluo to the name of tbe man who sought in this way to preach the truths of the gospel, and so the origin of this widely known motto calendar prom ises to remain the mystery it has been for a quarter of a century. PERHAPS on your desk wherever' you may be. in the United States, the Philippines, in China. Rus siathere hangs a small calendar, printed In white and blue, contsinlng mottoes. They are sentences that attract your attention, that stir uoble thohghts and Impulse. ' On the January page for this year, for instance, you read: Make the Best of Brerythlttt: Think the Best of EvoryboJV: . Hope the Best for Yourself. A good reminder at the beginning of the day, Isn't it? Or here la a prayer, quoted from Canon Wilberforce: Lord, for tomorrow and tta needs I do not pray; Kaep me from stain ot sin Just for today: Let ma no wron nor Idle word uathtnkln say; set mow a seaj upon my tip just tor iu&y. Then follows a quotation from Richard Watson 'Uiiaer: Bow thou sorrow and thoa shall reap it, vj : . . But sew thou joy. aad thou shall keep It- AS. 'It, Ts fermrf a more than girls, ordering tha peculiarly masculine highball and cocktails and Indulging In champagne In reatauranta. to an extent that paaaed beyond abrlaty, became ao common that it was not commonplace. It waa a public scandal. And. If tha cigarette did not invariably go with the liquor, tha liquor always cams in with the cigarette. The nation will not aoon forget tha culmination which "saw the New Year in" in New York and in half a dosen other large cities. It coat a million In New fork alone, along Broad- Preac And: Prar that ye enter not into temptation. Each month as the possessor of a motto calendar tears off the old sheet, new mottoes confront him. They strike one by their trenchant significance, and there can be no doubt that during the twenty-flve yeara these calendars have been published theae mottoes have influenced the daily lives of thousands of men and women. Shortly before his death, last fall, the donor of the calendars completed arranging the mottoes for the cal endar for the present year. This was a work requir ing no small amount of research and labor. The mot toes wore such that, having read them, you would not forget them, and the venerable Quaker Showed a re markable discrimination In the selections. When he first issued the calendar, twenty-flve years ago, he did not dream the demand would In crease to the proportions it did. The first printing numbered several thousand. Engaged In business in Philadelphia, the gentleman wished to do something to help others in their daily struggle. An extremely devout man, he shunned pub licity, and all precautions were taken by the publish ers of the calendar to conceal his Identity. In "A Me moriam" Issued with the calendar of the present year, a member of the family has written: "It was a leading principle with him not to let his left hand know what hla right hand did, yet his fam ily feel that this, his last message, and In fact all his messages, will be made more impressive by some knowledge of his character and of his high purpose in the publication of these calendars. "An earnest Christian, a member of the Society of Friends,' he felt called to a ministry of quiet service rather than of publio preaching, and Conceived this original method of sending to offices, schools and homes a message, the result of his own struggles, which might be a stimulus to practical Christian liv ing. "He selected the mottoes himself; it was to him a work for the Master, and he prayed that a blessing . might go with every calendar. He rejoiced la each ' new co-worker who helped in their distribution, aad delighted in hearing of tne good they did. ' S: , ON THE SIDE OF RIGHT "Head of a large manufacturing business, he yet , found time to. serve his Master in private deed and i publlo worship. Attentive to his work in tbe world," publlo spirited as a citizen, lovely In his home -life, ; be was always found on the side of right, Uvrng what ' It : mi way alone. It waa one vast orgla of alcohol an amoke the alcohol wholly In the form of vcaampagno, bacauae champagne waa the most eapenaiv lure ta debauchery they knew, and the tobacco In tha form oQ Turkish clgarettea, because Turkish cigarettes para mitted the moat wholesale Indulgence in tobacco wlUw out precipitating the nausea Inevitable upon the Cham pagne. ' ', . Modeaty of American girlhood! Front tha t&ia ot Iulaa M. Alcott down to a little while ago In New York there bad been nothing in tha Christmas 'and Naw Year featlvltlea that oould leave upon a goot Klrl'e cheek a iluah leaa innocent than the bright ani wholesome color that comes of out-of-doora, of harm leaa gaiety and homely American sun. t ' Thla New Year's five in New York was a apectacltf on which a decent irl could not bear to gase without feeling herself polluted. The Introductory the carnival of tha streets, wltfii Ms skylarking, its raucoua horns. Its impertinent feather ticklers was hilarious enough; yet It did not Kreatly overpass the bounds of the harmless , horse-, play which characterises the typical holiday crowd. If it waa hilarious, It waa not ribald. But in the thronged hotel reatauranta and In thai notable and notorious restaurants that have no hotel attachments, debauchery, plain and undlaaembled, reigned from long before midnight until the vary) coming of dawn. ' Aa uaual, wine came before the clgarettea; and, a usual, when the cigarettes did come the wine flowed In hurried quarts instead of temperate aipplng. Mid night and .the shamed New Year found a shocking" heritage of the year that was gone. In every cafe, in every restaurant. In every publlo dining room, the glrla and the women of New York; were abandoned to the embrace of the aatumall which began, a couple of houra earlier, with the glees of wine sipped slowly In assumption of dignified pro- priecy ana proceeded with tne next hour to the dgi rlety and proceeded with the next hour to the cigarette. lighted amid the protesting- laughter of feianed Inez perience or the gravity of unfeigned connolsseurshlp. As tne night sped they degenerated Into mere bacchanals, beautiful, wild with wine, the odor ot their cigarettes, acrid In the retiring rooms where alt the women were smoking, sweeping out Into the main apartments to ascend, pungently blue, and join the mist that overhung the riotous scene. , , NEW YEAR'S MAD WHIRL : ' ' ; If woman's modeaty ever was lost it went tip Its moke and down in wine on Broadway in New York! during the early morning hours of the year's new day. The facea that laughed ao vacuoualy, tha cheeks that flushed so furiously, the eyes that flashed so brilliantly were not the faces of soulful, aumart women; were no longer tha cheeks of modest or even decent girls; were far from the eyes of sane or raw tlonal human beings. They were the features of those who had come down Jubilantly into animalism to the bestiality of the drunkard. And later, as they reeled, helpleas, to the retiring rooms snd tumbled senseless upon the floors, whll their desperately clutched cigarette ends burned smoldering holes In the silks and laces of their splen-. did gowns, all semblance of beauty, of their human ity, even of their bestiality, departed. They war simply sodden heaps. - - . Modeaty, morality, vestiges of superficial decency- they had vanished In the early atages of the de bauch. They were New York's tribute to ,1U deities of wine and cigarettes; of cosmopolitanism and sue cess; of luxury and "faahion." A week, and an alderman found the courage fi introduce a local ordinance fining and . Imprisoning restaurant proprietors who permit women to amok in their establishments the measure that has now passed. Will it be any guarantee of the extirpation of tha cigarette from woman'a HpaT Without euch law a, and Independently of them doea there remain among the leaders of society, on whom the responalblllty for the practice rests, a sot-, flclent discretion and a eufflclent power to check IS , while It riaee to Its height . " -' t ; . ; And. falling these, is there the grace Of her owti salvatlon in the soul of the modem American girl: or hie it already pasaed up and away., In the blue of the amoke from her red. curved lipaT , Not long alnce the White 8tar liner. Adrlatlo had aj very stormy passage from the other side to New York. Perhaps the long trip grew monotonous; at any rate. 16 is said that after nearly every meal at least a. dosen women could be seen smoking in , the luxurious lounga r0Lady Julia Duff, a daughter of JLord Lonsdale, amj Miss Violet Vivian, one of the ladles of the household oe Queen Alexandra, are credited with having begun the) amokefests among the women on the trip, and were soon Inlneri tiY A numDer OI xne Iiur miu,w rmuu smokina- room for women will nave to oe added to thai popular transatlantic liners. he taught. He was scrupulously honest In all hla at- fairs, fearless, straightforward, generous, true, and sj loyal friend to rich and poor." Persons who were acquainted with the man saU he took the greatest pleasure in preparing the calen dars. Each night, when the work of the day was done, he would plunge Into the Volumes in his magnlfloenC library and search for the mottoes which, he felt; might convey a message to those struggling with sin and temptation. ,. " ' ' From poets, from dramatists, from novels, from the Bible, he selected the quotations; tbe authors ranging from Shakespeare to Ella Wheeler Wilcox s from the writers of the. New Testament to the. Rev Dr. Henry Van Dyke. j , ' r At first, the author thought the demand would bo small. The first issue was distributed largely In Phil adelphia, During the aecond year requests began to flood the publishers, and the third year demands cams from other cities. In the years that followed the Motto Calendars spread over the earth. The ."seed," as th author called his calendars, spread to every corner of the globe, and the "circulation" passed the 100,000 mark. ' '?'.. Among a few members of the Society of Friends in his native city the identity ot the donor of the calen dara became known, but to the ' thousands -who re celved the calendars the giver remained a mystery. Besides being 'n teres ted in a large manufacturing plant, the philanthropist was a director in one of tl large trust companies of his city and in a prominent bank. His was a busy life. One of his sons hnlds an, important political office. In the arrangement of the cal- . endars members ot his family assisted him, all enjoying tbe labor of love. - -M-?- Many persons might criticise the quality of the poetry On the calendars from a literary standpoint, but no on can fail to see the wisdom of such an admonition as this; , . , r A little toil and a little rest ' Aad a little more earned than' spenb Is sure to brio to aa hoaest breast ,, A blessing- of slad content . : And ao, though sklea may frown ef smile, ;: v. Be diligent, day by day; . . '. Rewards ahall greet you after a wbii , It you just keep working away. Interested in the political teform movements In 1 i city, the maker of the calendars was atru k fcy it t -lowing verse, which strikes one as containing a g rin . : genuine wisdom: Wiat a mlghty riforinatloa we woa!d V,.s'f; v.,. Witness tbraosli the land If the n.essea and the iaM eould fee vMade to understand ;-v :-..tl?s- TW ha wins at lt it elnaer from -ir.i i tHahonssty and plt ..... i Wh win t.a-one his atfhbos saa i-y ' Just practice ea bimsct i , e ;'.