The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-25
CIGARETTES FOR WOMEN.
Gothams Rich Widow-PattPs Travel
ing Expenses.

Gotham's Rich widow-PattPs Travel
ing Expenses.
NEW YORK, May 24.-The proprietor of
a large cigar store showed me recently some
very dainty gold paper cigarette boxes,
exquisitelY embossed in figures, and let me
smoke one of the perfumed darlings
enclosed therein. They are literally de-
hciolsly scented cigarettes, perfumed with
rose carnatlon or heiiotrope, imported espe-
clally for ladies' use, from Paris, of course,
| waich supports numerous great establish
| montS where, cigarettes are manufactured
Tor fashionable women exclusively The
most expensive kind, according to tue New
1ork dealer, unites the fragrance OF delicate
! MOVERS with seUpcOn of opium.
| When l asked if fashionable women really
bought them, and if women of another
class were not his best customers he laughed
and replied that well known ladies were
| devoted 10 them and persisted in their use,
| careless OF running their teeth and contract
! ing the opium habit He declared that they
were harmless, though the presence OF the
Chinese drug proves the contrary, and that
| II would be great victory for the nose
| when men addicted to the cigarette habit
had learned to smoke these ladies' cigar
cites. And there is something i'll that idea;
henotrope, carnation or rose perfume might
burnt paper which now pervades the at
mosphere of streets and parlors.
ANOTHER EUROPEAN IMPORTATION,
so to speak, but of the pipe order, is the
Duke OF Marlborough, who has returned to
tight scandalOus weekly journal, and make
another try, (but this is gossip pure and
simple, for the hand of Mrs Louis Ham
mersly, the five million dollar widow. No
| one can blame him for wanting her, for she
IS very handsome as well as very rich. She
| is the much admired woman of the
| Metropolitan Opera House, where her box
| first draws the opera glasses and last re-
| lease them. Her actions, too, are very
quiet, and in good taste everywhere, and
| howbeit fabulously rich, she is not CORES
pondlngly ostentatiOuS She is the first,
and perhaps the only woman who employs
the same designer of lingerie as Mime.
| Patti. Last year her order 10 this famous
worker in laces, frills and tucks amounted
to $1,000. Think of it! Nobody to see all
| this expensive daintiness but herself and
her maid-not even husband!
A HUSBAND, YOU KNOW,
Nine. Patti Nicolini has, so the French art
| isl who prepared bed gowns, etc, for the
| South American tour may be sure her efforts
are appreciated. You have heard, doubt
less, that Patti receives for this tour a
| greater honorarium than ever before, her
| oOIVlceS WUef6N6F
| 5000 per evening, in addition to a large
percentage of the gross receipts whenever
| there shall be an excess of the managers
| total outlay. Mime. PATHS travelling OK
| penses are betrayed, of course,
by her impressario, and as she
is the sole occupant of a car whenever she
| journeys by rail- and the solitary sick per-
son OF half dozen state-rooms whenever
she takes ship, it will be conceded that her
| nf
money. 1t commenced Monday, April 2, at
Buenos Ayres, with a company-of artists
chosen by Signor Ciacchi, the South Ameri-
| can impressario, who is interested with
Messrs Abbey and Grau in the tour Sig
nor Ciacchi and his associates are not to
have the fold to themselves during Nine.
PATHS engagement, for while the Patti per-
formances are in progress new and mag
nificeat opera house will be opened to the
public OF Buenos Ayres, with Signor Ia
magno as the chief attraction. Signor Ia
| magno is a sort of detni-god in those distant
parts, and demigod whose cult is consid-
erably moro costly than that of the classical
deities. He is to receive for fifty operate
| performances S., 250a night. What will he
| left for the Inhabitants of Buenos AyreS
and Montevideo for the purchase of
| Panama hats, duck trousers and palm-leaf
| fans, when the Italian song birds shall have
| fed, would be an interesting topic for dis
/ cussion.
| MEANWHILE LET US RETURN
| to our American birds and their English
| snarers. The former are much comforted
| by a letter recently published in Sir Henry
| Taylor'S correspondence, i'll which he speaks
very charmingly indeed of the women of
/ America, who, he says do not keep one so
long in the cold vestibule of common place
as their English sisters. Praise like this in
| a paradoxical way leads them to adopt all
the Alterations which they please by not
having But in some directions the affecta-
ton of English ways might well be carried
| far. In one respect it IS true the average
| American woman Is far behind the English.
| Her voice is not so melodious, and her in
| tonation Is less agreeable. No matter how
enchanting their beauty may be, a crowd of
| American women will make din with
| their voices which diStresses the ear, and
| the individual American woman whose
speech is altogether soft and melodious is
| unfortunately exceptional. Yet in England
| the run of women, no less in the lower than
| in the higher classes, speak with voices of
| charming sweetness, and with meditation
| very agreeable Here the voice is high and
harsh, there it is low and soft, soothing and
| gratifying the ear like sweet music, or the
| ripping of a stream.
AMERICAN WOMEN THEMSELVES
notice this difficulty and try to account for
| it, One lady, popular on both sides of the
| Atlantic said that it arose from the fact
| that the American girl early began to talk
| to two or three gentlemen at once she en-
| tertained a circle, while the English maiden
would die of fright if two gentlemen sought
to engage her in a three-cornered converse
| ton. w. L. s.
WHAT 1T COSTS TO DIE.