A "SALOON SMASHER."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3098, 22 January 1909, Page 4

A "SALOON SMASHER."

The Scottish campaign of Mrs Carrie Nation, the notorious "saloon - smasher'' of Kailsas, Joes not seem to have been very successful. In j America Mrs Nation used to delight in throwing stones through saloon windows arid breaking Up the fittings of "dives*" bat in Scotland I she does not seem to have gone beyond talking. In Dundee she entered public-houses, and severely admonishcrd customers, barmen and barmaids, particularly the barmaids. The first day she narrowly escaped ejection, but on the second day she was removed forcibly by two publicans who failed to see the necessity for her crusade. Smoking l , teadrinking, and dancing are also anathema to her. She adds a new terror to travelling by rail. While waiting at Thornton Junction She improved the occasion by addressing the passengers on the evils ol smoking, and terrified one man by telling him that if tha Almighty had intended him to smoke he would have been built with his nose upside down to serve as a chimney. She also remarked that some smokers would continue in their evil ways until they reached the re--gion of'everlasting smoke. To a sensitive man this sort of thing must be distinctly einbarassing. "Take that vile thing out of your mouth!" she said to a clergyman smoking a cigarette in the street, but the clergyman merely smiled and passed on. "The martyr's persists in eluding her grasp," says a London paper. "She has waited in vain for the police to arrest her, and now she says the I force is deficient in 'hustle.' "