The sun., 1889-11-10

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Of tobacco consumed says the pIansefEss n ahe tno
common saFSe In other oocupatione., The re.
suit literally ends IN smoke, you know
MISS NEILrE FARREN. f
what DO ! think Of Ladies' smohngI WHY.
they % DO IL Il. 'Y'i II I had bad time would have
written to the paper and saId 50; What h,.ie az
their 6stds, but hats ali nonsense They 40
tbeSe asy u Ihe mem Staet don't
want 'ern: I've worked as hard ss any Eomlfn,n: lf, !.
oSy oSHd time oSSs ever aa %Ss bsSaSss
In my stage business; II was IN piece Salled ,d
EsSh5 gs1eS 9o wts bb mSqH @
and everybody said how wonderfully clever IL
was. they'd known bow had e play at BE-, (
they'd have tnought It q good deal cleverer: OH
what sufforedi have never smoked of the
mind mon smoking. Il looks natural in them
and they seem to iike it. though how they can
is q mystery TO me. For women TO smoke is
The Sunday TINES takes the side Of the
women smokers, half sarcasticaly:
To say that feminine Indulgence in tobacco is dis
Rusting or unwomaniy 10 merely to record a private
opinion interesting to the recorders intimAs crafty
ing 70 recorders nstncts but alas absolutely in
snectuA barrier between tobacco and the boudoir
Facts must be faced. Women will most certainly
smoke 1t necessity of evolution. There is scarce
" field OF masculine energy IN which they do not
already hold their own.
The objection that smoking Is unvonanly is of the
transient valuo. for ere long all women willSmoke
To call ie disgusting shows a strange want OF
perception. prerty woman lighting her pre will in
few years the favortte subject Of tho painter OF
delicate dom estic charms 1t 10 sometimes urged as
reproach against by the ladies OF their family or
that they alt for hours smoking and say
ing nothing. How immoasurably would be the fascna.
tons fairsr half OF humanity DO enhancedn they
could participate In that silent symposiam. that
soundieEs interchange of highest thought and
sweetest sympathy. Half tho nisunderstandinGs
OF unmarried life. two-thirds Of the miseries OF
the welded state result directly from the Dernicious
habit taking when there really nothing to say Al
first tho smoking woman win shock the unaccuStomed
eye especially till she has learned that 1t 10 not noces
to shut the purseup tho pA and remove the
pine utterinR n loud sigh each expiration of tho
soothing fume. When women smoke and enjoy
their tobacco they will be camer. moro reasonable,
more tolerant. hred with .sounder ambitions appre
hensive OF the substance caroess Of the shadow Tho
woman who. in the future VIII vote and govern must
smoke tits also important for the development Of n
of Justice in the that they should be able to
take their favorte seat in crowded smoking carriage
without Ching the destined quito another sort
of perlop- We have, on the one kfde Jess imagined
bloom less OF the cherry ripe romance on the other,
less chatter, less fuss, and less fancy work.
And the solemn Lancet. the organ Of the
discussion In this way:
Tobacco smoking In this country least has till
Gently regarded OF the peculiar privileges OF
the male flato years however. tie habit has un
dergone certain important changes regards tho
of its influence 1t has attached adherents by the
hundred from among the most youfhful of the com.
munty. and 1t has, might also say in great meas
changed Its Many mon, and these as capable,
active. and worried their fellows. have always
been and still are. found among the nonsmokers;
WHILE the other hand, belief seems to be growing
that women are largely adopting tobacco In its
aesthetic forms feminine perquisite. To its
erapeutc charm aid to digestion, Esoother
Worries and mild hypnotic, isadded Its alleged fac
ulty Of rendering moro companonAble TO their
husbands brothers who smoke On such grounds itS
wider extension social customlhas been strongly ad
vocated by some while others again repudiate 1t with
equal warmth veritaole poison Of domestic woman
hood The question indeed is incapable Of settlement
on purely physiological grounds. II may be freely
granted tobacco does in degree yield that
tcial which is claimed for IT. but this will
suffice silence objection for its BY the smoker
is more than therapeutc method. Like every |
other luxury It carries with It something OF the slav
cry of indulgence, and this to extent not known
in the of tho simpler restoratves While. there
fore admit that its moderate use 10 in many in
only practically harmless but even benen
ciaL allow that its general adoption at all
necessary likely TO prove advantageous What is
true regarding its effect upon is even more appli
cable to Its influence women. Tho compapionship |
has III opinion. little to gain from tho
fragrant weed Concord Of the kind suggested Is after
ALL but gross bond of union. and the nnest common
influence would say Is here In many other things
not that of like to like" but of like in difference"
they are, and woman Will Amoke.if abe wants to. |
But take our advice. girls. and don't Be not
OF non-smoking IN others, men for instance.
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