Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-29
Nine. HOdjeska's Practice and Defence OF
The Hsbit-The SOsthern Women
Great Deyotaes Of the Weed
Quantities Sold to Mar
red Womea,
SMOKING IN BOARDING SCHOOLS,
How TIE Luxury is Struggled Into Vassar
afG Oths, COIleges-FamOus Women
Smokers in all the European
COuntries-Startling
Revelations.

proG sslon, called upon the popular
soirc-s, and found her reclining upon a
Turkish lounge smoking dainty cigar
cite. the smoke curling in graceful
yreaths above her head.
Seeing a surprised look upon her lady
friends face, Nine. Modjeska said with
a smile: You are astOnished to see
me INDUCING the luxury OF a cigarette?
Why should not Women smoke as we'll
IS men? fit be injurious to Women
Il must he equally bad for the men? LII
IL be benefit to the men, then Why
not to women? You will find that 40
per cent. of
The Cigarettes
consumed i'm New York are used by
women" Here the subject dropped,
although the Polise lady pulled away
with evident relish.
The next day | proceeded to inter-
view some of the leading uptown To-
bacCumi-ts, who substantiated Nine.
MCdieska'S statement. Said proml-
nert dealer in the neighbOrhOod OF Tn
ion square:
zone half of my sales of cigarettes
ard cigarette paper Is to young women,
sou,r orwhom prefer To roll their own
tobacco. Many boxes of the finest
Lrsu,!s aTc purchased by male members
of the family and appreciated by the
0ir'. People have no idea of the great
extent tn which the practice of smoking
is carried on 10y women IN New York.
Notice the dainty fingers stained
al he tips with nlcilne-y0un nnu
them i'm the first circles the +. +. VS..
The southern women are inveterate
smokers, and they also consume a good
DIES 0fsnuifalthough the disgusting ha6-
it Of ,nutf. dipping is going out OF vogue
in Virginia, TO which state, happily, 1t
wa almost entirely confined.
All the Fast Set smoke.
ooh. yes, all the fashionable young
ladies of hat is known aS the fast set,
smoke" said a tObaCcOniSt, near the
aTi>tOcraliC portion Of Fifth avenue, at
FortS.s,.Y,Dlh street. Ave sell guam
titirs of cigarettes 10 married women
only too. There Is place on Four
teeuth street not far from Sixth avenue,
where tobacco. cigars and cigarettes are
sold Ia women only, and sent To the
house i'm wrappers similar To dry goods.
SOmrtim, the men OF the house know
the women SmOke; sometimes they
don't Not ONLY do the boys st sch OOi
and IA college smoke the cigarette, hut
the glrls iu female academies and board
ing shoots are addicted To the habit, *
IL evidenced i'm the establishment Oi
- 4.Ntn l..
leg,, prohibiting the introduction Of to-
bacro upon the premises under the
ppnalty of expulsion. The Introduction
hss hSd httlp effect, though. How ito
they rvudr the watchful eye OF the
tea. ia. r." Easily. OuC girl at NaSSar
had q lot of Miilard's candies, three
boxes of cigarettes, = box Of cakes and
three bottles of Champagne-al of
whrrh are 'tabOOed sent To her by her
younger sister, who had them packed
i'm the interior OF a cabinet organ that
was sent t. ornament the young lady's
rooms ut the college. Tue back of the
Organ was uuscTewed and the forbid
den article, were packed therein
ANY
smoking Among the Girls
at Rurgers?" said one OF the young
ladies, member of the class Of 1881.
"H hen the gIr.s can get cigarettes they
are crazy TO smoke, but very few of them
will touch a cigar, which would prOba-
bly, make them SICK. Eet, know some
of the tricks the girls resort to. l had
s friend who went to Fort Plain Sem.
mary, up the Hudson, and when one o.
her confidential friends sent her an EN-
broidtred easy chair the girl at the
Seminary ripped the lining loose at the
back snd found the cigarettes she had
sent !or-furty packages-fOr herself
and friends. They used, at another
school know of, to drop cords out Of
their windows, when the coast was
clear, and have some of the boys out
side tie packages Of tobacco OF cigarettes
fast to these cords. j have smoked
some myself, although | do not like il
u bit some of the girls vino were in our
class are addicted to the habit, and
seem intoxicated with pleasure when
they can bow the smoke through their
nOstriIs. DUn'tSay word about this
in the newspapers, will you? y good
many of the girls mothers are smokers
themselves, and 1t is too funny to see
each trying 10 conceal the fact from the
other.
Curiosity and Inherited Tendencies.
"How DO these girls contract the hab.
it, Why, through curiosity, nearly all
Of them. With some, however, it seems
an inherited taste, just like the inheri-
ted tendencies TO alcoholism. Some of
the girls smoke one cigarette a dav,
some two, some as many as dozen. In
country towns you occasionally see the
women smoking pipes as they 90 about
their work. habit cont racted in their
youth from seeing their grandmOthers
do the same thing. What percentage
Of my friends smoke" | should saw
at least One-half Of them, but, as | saw,
not many OF them carry il TO access. If
fathers allow their boys to smoke, why
not let the girls do the same if thew en-
Joy il? With the boys it is vanity and
3 desire 10 be manly-with the girls il
Is the pleasant effects Of the tobacco. |
don't see anything terrible i'm il. II i
not half so bad as drinking wine. Now
remember this is a secret: wouldn't
get in the newspapers for all the world
Mime. ModJeska's Defence.
Not long sfterward l met Mime
Modjesks at the Arlington in Washing
LOut III COupdbyi as LUCK would have
ii, with the same lady. The converse
ton turned upon cigarettes aftel
awhile.
''They originated in Europe, 4" said tn
madame, land In this co6ntry II ha,
spread rapidly. Abroad many of I'm.
famous people smoke the cigarette
instance, Sarah BsInhardt, Mime. Theo
Mile. ColOmbier. The ex-Empres
Eugene also INDUCES, as do many q
the women smoke. In Italy the 6sbi
Is general, while in Germany
Austria and other parts Of the Cont
nent, it Is quite the fashion to smok,
cigarettes. In Turkey every female ba;
her hOOka, nargileh and chibouuue, AM
there Is less lung disease in Turkey thar
In any other country, and the womer
retain their teeth longer. Singers new
er smoke; the music teachers saw tina
1t Is bad for the voice. / suppose il /
no secret that occasionally indulge il
3 cigarette. Men say that smokin
aids digestion; therefore il must hel
wemen rs well. They say II Is a solac
IN hours of sadness or in cases of pain-