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THE OREGON SUNDAY. JOURNAL, ' PORTLAND, SUNDAY? lORNING FEBRUARY 9, '. 1908
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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.
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'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
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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-
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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
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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.
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SUH WON TVS miD TMU rei SAT
CREATE tH BE A CHAM HDLRT. OH f GOD.
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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,
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girl who had amoked, while aha trembled at
audacity, during her schooldaya, now smoked.
her
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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-
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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 '
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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
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