The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-13
sgUFF-DIPPING.

The New York Times gives some
figures about the increase of the habit
of snuff-dipping among women. 1t
says: "It has been generally consid-
cred that the practice belongs alto
gether to the extreme Southern and
Southwestern States, but it is not so it
extends to a certain degree throughout
the entire length and breadth of the
land. Snuf-dipping is SO called, per-
haps, from the reason that it is used in
small quantities obtained from the
bottle or box, as the case may, by dip
ping it out with stick or small spoon.
The practice prevails to a slight extent
In the State of New York, and to much
greater extent in the cities than in the
country. Two kinds of snuff are used by
the dippers, both of which, however,
are known as Scotch. The difference
between them is that one has a certain
amount of common table salt mixed
with it, and the other has none. They
are known as salt Scotch and fresh
Scotch. Fresh Scotch is prepared more
in this city than in any other part of
GAC 0ldGS 4uS following Is In0 null
ner of dipping in New York The dipper
is provided with small spoon, about
half the size of a common teapoon, with
which she dips a sufficient quantity of
snuff from the bottle. Then seizing her
lower lip with the thumb and forefnger
of her left hand, she draws it well for
ward and fills the cavity with the bonnie
6OucIe contained in the spoon. There
she lets it remain until it is gradually
diffused through her mouth, expectorat-
ing the while, IN manner that would
do credit to a veteran. Sometimes the
delicacy is daintily enveloped in a fine
piece of tissue paper and deposited in
the same place. In the Eastern States
the salt Scotch IS preferred, but it is
not used the same way as in New York.
There the dippers use a small stick of
some very fbrous wood, the end of
which is chewed until it assumes mop
Like appearance, owing to the separa-
tion of the fbers. This is dipped into
the snuff and then rubbed on the gums
and teeth. large quantity of snuff is
used By the factory girls in all the East
ern States, and it may readily be i'm
agined how easily habit of that kind
may extend among people. Dipping
is apparently very beneficial to the
teeth, and it may be that the habit is
often acquired from using snuff as a
dentrifce. The writer of this article
has travelled extensively through the
South and Southwest, and his expert
ence has been that wherever the prac-
tice prevailed, the teeth of the women
were beautifully white and singularIy
free from decay. Tobacco possesses
high antiseptic and detergent proper
ties, and must exercise a beneficial in
fuence in purifying the mouth. In
order to show to what an extent the
habit has obtained, it will only be
necessary to say that in the year 1873,
one New York firm alone, Messrs. P
Lorillard & Co., sold in round numbers
161, 900 pounds of snuff, all of which
was of the kind used for dipping, be-
sides more than $50, 900 pounds of the
regular mixture for the old-fashioncd
sn4ffers. Add to this enormous guam
tity the large amounts manufactured in
the other cities, and some idea may be
formed of the extent to which dipping
IS carried in the United States