The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-16
WOMEN WHO Triple.
COCKTAILS AND GIG ARETTES IN
FAVOR WITH TIE GENTLE SEX


From The Neic York World
women are not only not half as bad as
me - says The social philosopher. 'but they
are not half rs bad as men think the n. "
And the social philosophers sound Judge
/ ment is borne out probably By the observa-
ton of most mel and women Of the world.
1 In their ''snall vices" how
/ ever, the two sexes are getting to
/ be more aid more alike every day. The
woman who tiDples is By no means as rare
/ II New York to-day as the woman who
! smoked cigarettes was tea years ago.
/ Drunken wo zen ara unusual sights excep-
/ IN the Slums. The tipcllnE ma ron and the
eHhillar ,fed mail axe to be seen any dav on
| uppec Fifth avenue. which is the New York
millilers paradise; on fw -Ity-t1Ird street.
between Br ad way and Sixth avenue and
on the latter thoroughfare from Fourteenth
street up 70 Twe1tg-ffth.
Tne personal advertisement column OF a
New York newspaper had an ago iized sort
| OF paragraph day or two ago in which a
woman Of wealth begged for the return and
no questions asked" Of a gold-headed un-
bre,la. Her name and address in full were
on the handle, and the umbrella was an
expensive one; but that wasn't the reason
the owner was willing to pay so well for its
return. The fact was that this a1parently
tsncies. and bad sherry flask deftly hidden
away in it. The goli-mounted umbrella
| handle wasn't as long as a mans thirst the
day after feast, or ''aS deep as a wei >"
but IL he'd halt-pint of sherry, or brandy.
for that matter, quite C mfortably, and
there are plenty more such Parisia an tancieS
doing duty for fashionable shoppers
Having the fair owners name and ad-
dress on it, a sherry flask inside of it, the
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induce her to offer a fat reward for it.
These umbrellas are not believed to be on
sale here yet, but they are vastly amired
and highly priced. Everybody knows what
o id for rs umbrella handles have been
| taking on of late, some of them resembling
tcllet-box. some a golden calf, some a
| book, some dagger, a rams horn, a seem
| bottle and what not. They are big enough
to accommodate in their hollow interior,
with ease, a half-pint aud over of their
| owners favOrite tipple. And it's the WORK
of moment only to unscrewtae flask, take
nip, return it to the umbrella handle and
| 90 serenely on.
Seven out of ten women who come here
to be treated" said DR.. Hamilton Burch, the
throat specialist in the free dispensary on
| South Fifth avenue, "bave what Is called
smokers throat" That is a percentage
of smoking women that seems posti vely
alarming to thoughtful students of tle hui
manities. Throat specialists are of course
most likely of all medical men to detect
| smoking and tipping women. Among the
| better classes who consult physicians and
who send for them to make family visits,
| thu percentage of smoking women is of
| course much smaller, say three in ten But
nobody IS so absurd nowadays as to say that
it is a crime for women TO smoke W hat
has this to do with tippling2
just this: The smoking man generally
| tipples so does the smoking woman The
odor Of liquor of some kind is perceptibe
about the persons of the smoking women of
| South Fifth avenue. The odor of cachous.
| the unsteady step, the flushed face, and a
suspicious fondness for their umbrella
handles are perceptible about most of the
| fashionable smokers of Fifth avenue proper
1t is absurd to say that a won can't
smoke without drinking, but it is prob ably
accurate 10 say that nine women out of ten
who smoke cigarettes are not averse to a
| nip between meals, and take it pretty reg
| ula ".
When you see the glistening neck of a
crystal flask, or the sturdier shoulders of a
reliable bottle peeping out from the velvet
lined pocket of a handsomely appointed car
| riage or coupe, you may be reasonably sure
that there is dainty little silver or crystal
cup down at the bottom of that same
pocket, and that Mrs. Van Slammacken
| olaS j, Ut MISS IOCklnSbOn Jones, knows
what's good in the way of a pocket pistol.
and likes it, too. The tippler's coupe Is a
recognized pattern of vehicle now Ask
Brewster if he knows the brand and
he'll say no; that it's none of his
business what his customers put in their
carriage pockets But some of the Quieter
shops on Sixth avenue curious stories
could be told of the pockets made specially
for tipplers' coupes, and equipped, regard
less of expense, with brandy, sherry, alb
sinthe and chartreuse; of how Mrs AS
monogram adorns two PITT TASKS in chased
silver made to fit into that pocket,
and how Mrs. has actually had little
locker made in the front of her coupe. and
keeps half-dozen bottles, a lump of ice,
hard crackers and bonbons besides in lti
The New Yorker who keeps his ewes open in
the shopping district or on the avenue or
in the park needn't wait long to spot tip
piers coupes.
For the purpose of prosecuting study OF
this kind young New Yorker some DAYS
ago hired a sec nd-Story front room or
Fifth avenue, and SAL at the window from
IL o'clock a. m. till O'clock D. M watching
the doors of the swell bonnet shop Just across
tho street. That there were tipplars' coupe
in abundance there should need no asSer
ton; there were. But if there had It been
the pretty creatures in their rustlinC silks
and voluptuous ve!vetS needn't have gone
thirsty. Ihey knew the way to the side
board in a curtained alcove in the real
room of that b0nnetshop, as well as the mar
tippler knows the way to his favorite ar
gallery. They knew what they'd find OF
the milluer's sideboard, too-vicly. and ic
in bowl of hammered silver, brandy
Jamaica rum. sherry, half-dozel cordials
a sandwich or two, a plate Of water crackers
and dish of olives.
Most of the fashionable milliners keep {
decanter of sherry and biscuit for tn
refreshment and dedication of their bes
customers; the milliners siieboard, how
!, ever, is comparatively new in New York
ant, like the brandy-dask umbrellas. is O
Partisan origin. Ladies have been know
: to faint aft a long serge at trying on new
= dresses, and dressmakers found il advisable
to have dash of spirits handy to reviv
: their overcome customers in an emergency
Oncs introduced for such emergencies
smart women have never found any diff
Guilty i'll making emergencies to fit tn
milliner's sdeboard aud the dressmaker'
spirit decanter.
Drinking at dinner is a matter of cours
for many women of the world, and, as such
is matter for their physicians and thei
pocket-books. Tipping between meals, re
sorting to well-known milliners sh Dps &
get glass of dry sherry, taking flask &,
cordial along for the afternoon drive il
Central park, walking boldly up to tin
mllliner's sideboard, keeping bar in a.