As secretary of the Anti-Smoking Society, Bella Butts proceeds to clean up the town of Hicksville and cure its citizens of the pernicious habit of smoking. The Ladies' Aid Society is won over to the cause, by means of a most amusing practical demonstration of the harmful effects of smoking, and as the Mayor's wife is a member of the Ladies' Aid, that gentleman is unduly influenced to champion the cause. He posts a proclamation throughout town and closes up the one cigar store. All the men have to smoke corn silk. The Mayor loses his popularity and becomes very irritable because of the sudden stopping of his favorite after-dinner cigar. The rest of the town's citizens who formerly had been inveterate smokers, also became ill-tempered, and make life miserable for their families. The women begin to regret giving in to Miss Butts' strong-mindedness, but it is now too late. Fortunately for all concerned, a cigar salesman shows up in town
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