St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-26
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Have a cigaret?"
The petite and pretty cherub who put
this question at me, had drawn dainty.
embroidered cigaret case from her pocket,
and offered it to me with naiyete as charm
ing rs it was irresistible.
~ cigaret?"
"YeS-why not?"
You don't mean to say you carry those
nasty things around in your pOcket?''
'"Of course; and smoke them too,'
Smoke them?"
''Certainly-all the girls do
We were sitting in the bow window of
the drawing-rOOm. talking over those little
eccentricitieS of female life which, even be-
tween the women of widely varying age,
have an endless attraction and fascination,
when the episode of the cgarets opened my
eyes to new phase in the character of this
gay and rapid yOungster. She Sprang from
the stool where she had been sitting. ran
half across the room. threw herself with
reckless abandon into an arm chair. and
chirped:
Really. now, you don't mean to say you
didn't know Ills girls smoked cigarets"
Certainly not before to-day"
NAUGHTY LITTLE CLUB.
"And didn't you ever hear of the cigaret
club?"
A look of myStitcation expressed my ig-
norance. Cherub burst into merry laugh.
Then. while sober look came into her
eyes and the dimpleS deepened on her sculp-
tUred chin the ruby lips half-whispered:
Its great secret, you know tremen-
dOuS secret, not half dozen people outside
of the girls know anything about it. As
for the BOYS we wouldn't dare 10 tell them
anything for the world"
And then this pretty little cherub, sitting
there, with her arms thrown over her head.
with her face beaming with merriment and
reckless deviltry and her pink clad ankles
pecping beneath the ruffleS Of her abbreyi-
ated skirt. rehearSed for Inc the history of
the only female club-a scheme of naughti-
ness worthy of the horrid men they Strove
to initiate.
Weary of male neglect and masculine pre-
tensions to superiority. the girls dubbed to-
gether. furnished q room on the third floor
of a fashionable boarding house on Sixteenth
street. and there. shut in from the world
and unapprudchabie by the dominant sex.
eourted hilarious fun and reckless excess
regardless of expense.
They kept sitIebOarCi and cigaret drawer.
and now and then. for variety ; sale, a cigar
box found its way into this elysium of the
gOddeSseS. The club room is kept a pro-
found secret. and even the dOting pas and
loving mammas know nothing of this aw-
fully naughty and horribly dreadful mania
for club life.
y standard attraction of the club is a
card-table. with full deck. and long after
Rooms are shortened by frequent games of
seductive poker, played for keeps. with an
earnest III the way of a dollar limit.
once in the club room. all formality is
discarded. The giddy gay ones throw aside
their skirts and don fantastic Eastern COS
TUNES, light and gauzy and clinging. and
showing in al. their bewitching beauty the
lines Of the female figure. Then. reclining
in the easy chairs that give 90 the room the
comfort of boudoir. or thrown in careless
abandon on the sAtin-hFocaded divan. they
chatter and gossip. while the curling smoke
fran their cigarets fills the room with be-
wiideEing castles OF clouds.