Untitled

NZ Truth, Issue 74, 17 November 1906, Page 5

No woman more bitterly resents being termed a prostitute than she whose conduct really is grossly and mercenarily immoral.

"Sweating" is an accursed thing and should be suppressed, but the girl or woman who prostitutes herself to escape unfair conditions of labor is naturally vicious, and deserves little sympathy.

That most desirable Act dealing with the juvenile who smokes cigarettes seems to be a dead letter, if a letter can be dead. Ib hasn't suppressed worth a cent, and kiddies smoke as of yore, obtaining what they want m the shape of combustibles from the small shop keeper, or the malodorous Clunkic, who risk prosecution m order to make a copper or two. The worst of it is that the small youth requires a great deal for his money, consequently he creates a demand for that baneful article, the low-grade cigarette, made of i-he worst tobacco procurable, or even dessicated horsedung, and often doctored with drugs m order to make it pglatahle, so to speak. It is a most injurious smoke for grown-ups, let alone undersized manikins, and it's n great pity that the importation of the curse couldn't be prohibited aitogethu.