Women's Smoking

In a court case in Sin Francisco tho moral of women's smoking becnme a subject of disoussion, anti a wide die tinction was made between a grand mother smoking her clay pipo in the cor ner and a young woman smoking cigar ottos. The pipe in an old woman' moutli was held to be virtnous, while young woman's cigarettes wcre clecidedl; immoral. One was a grandnra in he sooond cliildhood, sno.king comfort f rom a dudheen ia a ehimney corner ; th otber is a rflkiah young woman drawing Biaoke from a cigaretto down to tho bol tom of her lovely lunga, and blowin„ out ttirough her Grccian nose a doublé barreled ff stiye cloud. It is calculated that stammering ai feots 125 in 100,000 persons in Franco His more common in tho South than il thöNorth. ïhis difference is attributen to edueation being more widespread ani the prouunciation inoro attended to i) the North than in the South of France Itis pointed out that as long as exemp tiou (rom military service is aooorded on account of the defect there will be littl desire on the part of parents to get thei childron cured of it. Pi!Bn.P3 the British aro the only islamls in the world whereof tho in luibiiant? are, as a rule, utterly ignoran of tlve art of swimming. Even of En glish Bailors, yery fe? know Jiow to Bwim.