Cigarettes

We have not escapfd the sharp tooth of the November winter that has ravaged so broadly. Coming after heavy rains and w'ith higb water, it provöked some of our rivers to unusual antics, antil suveral towns, notably Chippewa Falls,were 1 eaed bv ice g-orges, and soine farms and raflway beds and bridges seemed to migrate seaward. Hut zephyrs froni Chicago way liave. come to our rescue and iiiany fêars are soothed. If all the illa that obstruct AVisconsin's nobler progress could beso successfully removed we should have still greáter joy- for example, the deadlv gorge of cigarettes that beats back boy liood Iroin lts mgtier iruiuons. aiiu poisons bloodand brain and conscience, leading the way to all else that clissipates and degrades. Can parents know the damage this "devü's kindlingwood" is doing V In a Wisconsin city of 6,000 people, a recent investigaron showed that a single dealer retailed three hundred per day- saying naught of buttons and picturea of very doubtful decency thrown in. ïhis would indícate that one or two thousand cigarettes in twenty four hours, mostly consumed by young men and boys - some almost babies- is a conse vative estímate in that town of ti.OOO souls; and many another is like it or worse. If only the boys would be warned by the fatal facts and figures put beforè their eyes: if only mothers and fathers wouid look into it and know what their boys are doing; if only the men- some "Christian men- would control themselves and conserve their own years and heart beats enough 10 set the boys a ritriit example- ! A few Wisponsin cities have passed prohibitory cigarette ordinances. They may help to save the lost and neglected, but they are likely to be dead letters uniil parentswill I ie parents- and Uien, they would become needless.