Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1910 — They Did in Her Case. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

They Did in Her Case.

Mr. Knowsltt Awl—No two men think alike. Mrs. Weeds—Oh! I don’t know. I’ve been married twice.

Two country school boys stood on a business corner this morning wrestling with cigarettes. From appearances. the manner in which the coffin nails were held and the attitude of importance the youths seemed to have, it was a first experience with the liver distorters. It is a great misfortune that bright boys, capable of acquiring an education and whose parents are making every sacrifice in order that they may go to school, think it neccessary that they should learn some filthy and demoralizing habit as a first lesson in the habits of a town. The cigarette habit seems to have fastened itself to a number of young boys in town, but fortunately a large number have not taken it up. Parents should see to it that their sons do not use tobacco, and the school board and the faculty should be given authority to see that boys do not use tobacco on their way to and from school. The cigarette is an abomination* that has contributed to the dwarfing of many a bright mind and parents should counsel with their sons and if reason is not sufficient to cause the boys to forego the habit, then more positive means should be used. The cigarette should be barred from the school boy.