Female Smokers.
The legal position of a woman who smokes cigarettes is to be determined in the Chicago courts, where Miss Katherine Scott has begun a suit for £SOOO damages for breach of promise against Colonel Harry Sei'ton, a theatre owner, who broke his engagement when be learned, that his fiancee occasionally soothed ha- nerves with nicotine. The ease brings to a head the question winch hr.s been agitating American women for several years. The trouble started when a New York policeman arrested a woman for smoking a cigarette while driving in a motor-car through the streets. Then women began smoking cigarettes in restaurant?,-- the proprietors of which agreed to forbid the practice. In only one fashionable restaurant in New York can women enjoy cigarettes with their coffee, but it is significant that this place always is the most crowded.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2285, 19 February 1912, Page 6
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140Female Smokers. Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2285, 19 February 1912, Page 6
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