Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1913 — Temptation. [ARTICLE]

Temptation.

Representative Solomon Francis Prouty of the Seventh district of Illinois is the only man in th§ house of representatives who chews gum, and he chews it with a remarkable avidity. He took the gum habit after a conference of lowa physicians had warned him that he must either stop smoking or fill a grave. They suggested chewing gum as a substitute for my Lady Nicotine. The only time he has smoked in ten years was on a hot day last summer while'out campaigning. He stopped to talk with an old farmer who was puffing at a corncob pipe. The smoke got into Representative Prouty’s nose, and as soon as he reached town he rushbd into his office, gnabbed his secretary by the arm, and almost shouted: “For goodness sake dig out that pipe of yours and give me a puff! Lock the doors and keep every man out who looks like a doctor. I’ve got to smoke or bust!” —Washington Star.