Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-08-10
Cigarette Smoking bv Women.
THOSE WHO SMOKE AND THOSE WHO DON'T, ACCORD
ING TO THE BEST INFORMATION.

SulOA1n8 DV women
THOSE WHO SMOKE AND THOSE WHO DON'T, ACCORD
ING TO THE BEST INFORMATION.
From the New York Sun.
There is deep uncertainty in the minds OF many
people as to the extent Of cigarette smoking by
women In New York. According to the illustrated
papers Of the kind which depict the New York girl
driving coach up 9th avenue, having private
sparring contests with club men and playing lean
frog in Broadway for lark, the New York girl
smokes necessarily, and with an air OF entire
abandonment. The papers in question represent
when she Is engaged In the classic diversion of
leap frog A reaction set in after people had
begun to belley. these pictures and now tits often
The truth is that among respectable and edu-
GATED and gs csndestne smoking
where giddy girls, after elaborate precautions lions
against discovery. venture to smoke cigarette In
their own apartments in companionshtp with
not amount to much. The girls who smoke thus
regularly are very tew There are isolated cases,
ae1 h mouse 3dage In the
people from European countries where the prac-
tice Is customary. Married women seldom smoke
fast. As q rule, men inst!nctively frown down any
attempt on the part OF their wives to indulge In
tobacco The attempt some years ago to make it
sian cigarette after dinner failed signaiIy.
Bnt there are very many cigarettc-smOkin0
or particularly refned are still respectable These
women usually begin to smoke for the fun of the
thing, and after they have kept 1t up little while
find that the cigarette has as strong a hold on
them as it has on the messenger boys and dudes.
Their husbands ind 1t out, of course The aroma
OF the common paper cigarette Is not of an eva
in room the odor ts detected at once, by any one
coming into the house: The husbands may frown
1t down at first, but they become accustomed to
their wives smoking In time. Women of the
kind In question arc usually those who live In
boarding houses. They have no household duties:
time hangs heavily on their hands. and they while
garette Just as the idle man sleeDily over his
pipe. There is no reason to doubt that the NUM-
Der OF women OF this particular kind is very large
OF cigarettes among the respectable members of
their sex. Their daughters and unmarried sisters
do not smoke SO much, though they may OCCASION
BILE society can be knoyn as a cigarette smoker
and not gain reputation for fastness
Actresses are often cigarette smokera Mod
cites, and Bernhardt has painted portrait of hor
self In the act of smoking
9sn to
covered" said a youth Ia . l4th street tobacco
shop yesterday. s'tormerly we got the benefit Of
M wHm men, made IN that line but
Is the dry goods and notion houses have taken to
keeping cigarettes The so-called bazaars and
even s some OF the ca q shops also sell them"
ut is among shop girls who want to be tough,
and among the miscellaneous crowd OF women
enas y o. In
until year ago. We sold all sorts OF smokersS
knick-knacks. froD: smoking jackets and caps to
Tobacco pouches ana KS sold cgaetta
there We're not more than two or three that
should call swell They all smoke the cheapest
for the better kind our ne cigarettes are 's al
sold TO men"