Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-27
HE GAY WORLD OF FASHION.
Movements of the Members of the
Local Four Hundred.
CIGARETTES IN THE BoUpoIR.
The Dress Reform Mar
ringes and Apnivcrsaries-Bi Birth
days ana Surprises-Doings
OF the Week in Society.
Cigarettes in the Boudoir.

ttRnFetttS III the bOuuOtr.
From London comes the assurance that
the duchess OF Marlborough has introduced
cigarette smoking IN the charmed circle of
her select friends So successful has been
the innovation that ravishing smoking
jsclets, ahlaze with gold embroidery, are
now a part and parcel of every society
woinan's outfit.
Gentle reader, you are shocked, and q
stretch of geography will not, in this in
stance, temper the wind to the shorn lamb
for am about to give you turn nearer
come
The more than half naughty fad, is ram
pant in our very midst. Not only does the
callow dude, with trousers wider than his OK
periencc, and a stick with head bigger than
the confines necessary for his intellect, stain
his helpless fingers a dirty brown, but charm-
ing and cultivated women acknowledge IL to
be the correct thing
These fair creatures have familiarized
themselves with tobacco in this form to
such an extent that the varieties of
Egyptian La Fermc, Richmond and
Satin Straight Cuts and the rest are
rs well known to them as their prayers, and
the pretty creatures make rings as easily as
they make promises.
In the bondoirs OF any number of women
In Omaha, q tray of cigarettes holders and
matches has its honored place with no effort
at concealment The pretty appointments
Of the tca-table have grown to be second
consideration, for there is nothing wicked
about tea pure and simple. 4he charm for
the fair sex IN smoking is undoubtedly the
conviction that it is at least venture
some!
That the trifes necessary TO this practice,
which by courtesy is called n small vice, are
exquisite, no one can gainsay. There are
little trays of silver, Benares BRASS tortoise
shell or pOrcelain; holders of amber, mother
OF pearl, or silver again, in instances jeweled
and adorned with a monogram; match
boxes of rarest workmanship some of them
with miniatures of bygone beauties made to
smile mt this now-a-day custom; tiny candle
sticks 10 hold the tapers. and a thousand
other enticing things which 30 far toward
seducing the feminine mind.
a woman with beauty enough to draw a
man's heart out OF his body, with a spice of
wonderfully sweet devil slanting side
long from her eyelashes;" gowned In some
distracting fashion: gracefully posed
with her saucy head thrown
in her dainty fingers and her bewitching
face seen through the soft gray curling
smoke is picture, even when not employed
as cigarette advertisement, and one that is
as often seen as any other in ultra fashion
able society.
Miss Coghlan in Forget Me-Notn and
Mrs. Langtry in that peculiarly unsavory
play of ''As in Looking Glass, ~ gather all
their witchery of grace about them for the
smoking act and giddy young women with
daring propensites. look ON and sign with
envy.
To be sure, any number of men smoke
cigarettes and it always appeals to me that
they have taken up the gauntlet thrown
down by girls and dudes. Personally, / like
the odor of cigarette and, were 1 of the
other sex, might on high days and holidays
indulge, but regularly, never. In the latter
event, there would be with me the eyer.pres-
ent fear of coloring the mind with the fin
gers.
Then, too, 1t is with cigarettes in effect, as
some one SAID of strawberries: 'God might
have made better berry, but he didn't"
and yield man might make good cigarette
but he doesn't
1 heard physician of a reputation not
confined to his own town say that nine
tenths of the women would be healthier if
they smoked, not the baleful cigarette, but
good cigarl So much for the opinion Of
Asculapius My humble advice, however,
to bcauCy is to let cigars alone.
Primarily, the odor OF tobacco about
woman's gown or laces is vulgar, and, on
her hands and lips it is sacrlege.
Again, smoking is undeniably exciting to
the nervous system and indirectly then the
occasion of wrinkles and a lack of repose,
that unmistakable seal of good h"eeding.
AS "a protest then, Is the ''game worth the
candle.n Is there enough enjoyment conse-
quent upon hunting OH the preserves of the
other sex for the exposure of oneself
thereby to unenviable comment, the chance
reputation for vulgarity and the probable
risk OF wrinkles, the samples that Time
works soon enough upon the fairest facesl