THE TOBACCO HABIT AND ITS EFFECTS UPON SCHOOL WORK.
By Homer Horatio Seerley,
Principal of Iowa State Normal School.
(Chicago): Published by Miss Ruby I. Gilbert,
[circa 1890].
First edition [issued as tract No. 24” in this temperance publisher’s series: “Signal Lights”].
Single sheet folded to form 4 pages.
An impassioned argument against the evils of smoking, describing it as “the weed,” and comparing its use to narcotics. Based on studies of school-age and younger boys smoking, including subjects as young as four years old.
Miss Ruby I. Gilbert was a noted temperance advocate, publisher, and member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U,).
Thin line of early, light brown staining in fore-edge margin, else very good, clean condition.
Uncommon; OCLC locates only two holdings of this title [Harvard & Wisconsin Historical Society].
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