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324 these things have been told them hundreds of times, without having the least effect on them. They can hope for recovery only when we come to their rescue, and we cannot do that in any more effective manner than by forcing them to do without our society, if they will not do without tobacco. But this passive resistance is at the same time the best way to guard our own interests. It is not only to relieve ourselves from the physical suffering, to which we are exposed by the horrid stench, the fumes that take away our breath, the smoke that makes our eyes smart, and all the other abominations which accompany the operation, but also from the moral degradation of subjecting our persons, without hesitation and without regard to an ordeal of self-abnegation against which our whole nature rebels for the sake of a coarse male amusement. When I see a woman sitting in the company of men, enveloped by tobacco smoke, I feel that she is defiled, insulted, sacrificed. She gives me an impression of vulgarity or self-degradation, and a feeling of contempt, because she endures or even enjoys without protest an atmosphere entirely antagonistic to womanliness.

In the interest of both sexes, and, I may add, in the interest of marital happiness, I recommend the adoption of my resolution.

JULIE VOM BERG — I am willing to cast my vote for any expedient that can possibly break men of the tobacco vice. Fortunately our German men have not yet sunk so low as to adopt the American