Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-19

New york Women Who
Smoke Cigarettes.
An Old TcbaccOnist DiscIoses Some Facts
That Are BOT Generally Known


Express Of prominent retail cigar and
tobacco dealer uptown.
"WslI. you may be surprised II told
you how many lady customers have"
he answered Il have been. IN Broad
way fifteen years, selling the best
Favored tobacco in the void. and to-
day my trade with ladies is greater
than ever before, and / am proud to
say that many OF them are heightened"
do they come In person and select
their weeds?"
"As general rule they do not.
Those who come pretend oft
times that they are buying for their
husbands. whom they regret buy bad
favored cigars or. cigarettes from
Smith. few blocks away. and they
want to get some for them with anice
odor. enter into the scheme and
show some mild weeds to them for
their husbands They never take
strong smelling cigarettes or cigars
But most Of them send an order BY
servant for what they want and Gil
it without questions Actresses smoke
good deal. They come in person and
generally try several cigarettes to get
suited. They are good paying custom
ers and never grumble about the cost
OF the finest Havana flled cigarettes"
'What kind of tobacco do woman
mostly smoker
1.-THE Turkishtobacco, imported here
and then doctored and made into cigar
cites. Some of them prefer the cigar
cites with nice mouth pieces to them.
but they are beginners. A smoker Of
several years likes the taste Of the
weediin her mouth, and never desires
a mouthpiece.
ado they ever smoke strong cigars or
pipes?"
Even the oldest smokers among the
ladies rarely try a strong cigar. and
pipes are ont OF the question entirely.
You see those Persian pipe bowls there
in the window. with tubes running
from them2 Well, sell great many
of them to gentlemen and not a few to
ladies. These oriental pipes. as they
are supposed TO be. are really manufac-
,tured in Bohemia ana Austria, and
sent to Asia Minor, Persia and Turkey,
and from there exported &, America
They have water in the large bottom
bowl and on top meerschaum bowl
where the tobacco is placed. The
smoking tube or tubes. composed of
wire and covered with chemically pre-
pared leather. are attached below the
meerschaum bowl. so the smoke gets
the benefit Of cold bath before reach
ing the mouth. They are expensive,
ranging from IS to SIS apiece. / am
free to confess that when woman
purchases one Of these large Persian
home institutions she is not as gener-
al rule trammeled b domestic ties
These Persian pipes, though, are most
=ly affected by artists and students. es-
.pecially Il they have travelled any in
Eumpe.
1T looks as IL smoking would have .
tendency to weaken the fair devotees
and make them sleepy and languid like
the dreamy Odalisdues Of the 0tientl'
..Not 50. Il rather excites them like
. stimulant and Wills the effect lasts
their eyes sparkle and their animation
isremarkable. All women who smoke
as rule, drink beer. but all women
who drink beer do not smoke The
majority however. can smoke who
love beer. IL they do not. aud it viii
not akfect their nervous system. But
I am ii the tobacco line and cannot
see. tho deleterious effects. il there
really are an. which scientific. men
assert result from the use Of the weed.
II ladies want to smoke cigarettes.
am too gallant to deny them: Il they
desire secrecy. am too discreet to
mention their names: and II they pay
good round prices, ! am not rich
enough 70 refuse their custom
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