The Hillsborough recorder., 1876-11-29
SNUFF TAKING WOMEN.

Il i & #s & Z
The ladies had no little TO do with snuff
holding liz own 40 long. How soon Eng
lish women i,rgan TO follow the example
Of Catherine de Medicis wecannot tell.
The feminine admirers Of Sachsverell
contended as ardently for a pinch OF his
''orangery, IN secondhand beanx had
once struggled to dip their fingers il
Dryden's box, and carried their idol 8
portrait III the lids of their boxes, A lady,
writing in l7l2, describes herself ~ sig-
niiicant creature, who dressed not. to'k
no snuif aud did no fashionable things.
Lady Betty Modish, who would accept
no gilt from her lover save snuff-box,
asserts .'cincerity In love isas much out
OF fashion ~ sweet snuff, noUody takes Il
now.n e
Steele ihveighed loudly against the i'm
pertinent custom fine women had fallen
into; which whether performed coquel-
iishly or with sedale, masculine air, was
la his eyes equally disagreeable.
or course the sex treated such lectur-
iDgs with contempt. Neither wise words
nor witty words ever yet availed against
fashion. Fine la,lies still continued to
kill time by the mid Of snuff--stiii held it
TO be = sovereign remedy for fashionable
feminine ailments. .....f..... 81.
Forty years after Steele had p reached
without converting, the Connoisseur
complained that women, who should cul.
tlvate cleanliness, persisted In indus
triously be,laubing themselves with snuff,
and warned them that Il WAS an i'm
pIacable enemy 10 the complexion, besides
bloating the In,se, imbrowning the fin
grrs iaid making lovers cliary Of the
honey of their lips. I .gaa Aaaarz
Garrick presented his wife with gold
snutf-bax. The dainty little trinket was
tobe seen not mary years back in the
siop.window ofa London pawnbroker,
side by side with diamond ring. once
the ptoperty Of Mrs. NirLett.' When
Mns. Sierne was ainut 10 join her hus-
band in Paris, IN 1852, he wrots: You
viii find good tea upon the road from
York 10 Dover; only bring little tocarry
you fram Calais Co Paris. Give HE GUS
tom house officer what told you. At
Calais give nioie. N you have much
Scotch snufi; but, rs tobacco Is good here,
you lad Le-t bring Scotch null, and
make 1t yourself; that L.. order yaur velvet
To- manufacture IL, twill keep him out of
mischief and. in second letter he adds,
you must be cautious al'out Scotch snuff;
take halfa pound In your pocket. aud
make Lyd do tlls samei Charles Lamb
did not object To his sister favoring the
made; perhaps, like Dr. Dunlop, he
thought II decent to zee an old maid
taking snuff; aud she was not ashamed 90
picture herself aud her brnther writing
the Tales from Shakespeare at nne table.
Like literary Darby aad Joan; taking
isnufT. aud he groaning all tile while, and
saying he can make nothing 81 IL, till he
las finished, when he finds lac has made
somethlng ofil' Mary Lamb, like Mrs
Slerne, had doubtless. 70 content herself
with Scotch snuff Size could not pretend
To the dowager's delight. nscauLa; slill
less to the delicious colnpound % rappee
and bitter nj nlpnds. scented with amber
girls md altar, called Violet strasl,ourg,
whicI, Queen Charlotte adultrmted with
green tea ere she snufisdit up her royal
mrse. 20 lately as ls1g snuff was so,ne>
thing which almost every beIl.bred man
presents To every woman;' hut IL career,
at least In the world Of fashions. was
nearly run. aud came toa sadJen end with
the death of the last % The Georges. II
Is to be hoped the fair ones will never
take snuil into favor again. ..s.