The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-02-10
FEMININE SMOKERS.
A Practice That Is Growing In Fa.
vor with the Fair Sex.

A Practtce That Is Growing In Ta-
vor with the Fair Sex.
Royal Russian Women Who are Very
Fad Of Their Cigarettes-A Peculiar
Cation Of Kalmuck Mothees
Smoking InfAnts.
urlsk controversy has been going
on about cigarette-smoking women In
the columns of the North American
Review and other periodicals., and
those who broke lances for and against
were women. Mrs. Lynn Lynton.
whose novels are read here as feuille-
tons so extensively and with so much
gusto, is quoted as leading the assault
against the lady smokers. Is it true
that she calls the cigarette when in q
lady's mouth tie emblem of revolt?
If so, she is not up to date, so far as
continental practices go. The cigar
cite has not yet found its way with
after-dinner coffee into the official
drawing-room, but it soon will. At all
the houses setting up to style it is
served at intimate dejeuners and
small but lively dinners.
Nobody is shocked at ladies smoking
not merely onecigarette apiece but two
or three. A minister of Queen Christina
says that highly respectable and respec-
ted royal lady is aninveterate and q vet
Gran smoker. She got in the habit of
smoking cigarette when she was alb
bess of the Hradschin, b sfnecure she
lost on getting married. Her cousin,
Archduchess Mathilde, who was en-
gagged to King Humbert when he was
prince OF Savoy, lost her life owing to
her fondness for cigarettes. She was
forbidden by her father, Archduke
Albert, to smoke, but none the less
: went on doing 80. One summers day,
orr .ening, as she was standing smoking
on the balcony she saw him enter the
courtyard on which she was looking
down. The archduchess, who was
wearing muslin dress, whipped the
cigarette out of her mouth and hid 1t
behind her back. It came in contact
with the muslin, and she was In a mo-
ment enveloped in flames, there being
q strong draught where she stood.
Most of the Russian grand duch-
esses are smokers Grand Duchess
Wlademir thinks q husband and wife
who smoke are less likely to fall out
than II the former alone smoked. 1t is
not known whether the queen Of Italy
smokes, but some of her ladies GER
tainly do. When Twas at Stresa saw
them enjoying cigarettes when boating
on the lake, and In the grounds of the
duchess Of Genoa's villa, where the
queen was staying. The crown prin-
cess of Saxe=Msiningen could not live
witaoHt Her cigarette. 1t neither takes
from her good looks, nor spoils her
teeth. nor diminishes her activity.
She is nearly thirty-four, but appears
scarcely twenty-six. The 1nfanta
Euialia spoke when she was last on
the Riviera Of the comtesse de Paris as
having set her an example as smoker.
As the French say, the infanta beau
coup d'imagination, and sew in the
cigarette or cigar of the comtesse ,
pipe which she believed that royal lady
smoked in the streets of Seville. span
ish ladies are grntuitously credited or
with being great smokers.
They may do so in Cuba, though they
are there more conservative and greater
sticklers for the proprieties than at
Madrid. The ladies who best patronize
are, next to the Kalmucks,
the Russians. The ruling passions OF
Kalmuck women are ribbons to twist
round their long tresses, tea, tobacco,
and bright handkerchiefs. But II they
have to choose between tobacco and
tea their option is for the former.
When a little Kalmuck comes into
the world-an event that happens
rarely twice in the same menage, the
is given 3 well-filled pipe to
smoke before she nurses the baby.
The little one talz6s to smoking before
it is weaned. The pipe is the great
cure for nervous headache. Fredens-
borg, where the car and czarina sum-
mer, is the dullest place in the world.
The queen of Denmark is exacting OF
respect for the proprieties. The last
charge that anyone could think OF
bringing against her court is that of
fast behavior. Yet most of the young |
-
There is no better way of showing of
pretty hands and rings than toying |
with cigarette. A court party from
one evening was dining |
1t the Copenhagen Trivo]i in the. col
onnadc Of the restaurant. There was |
! large threatrical party near them;
he actresses did not smoke, but the
aides in attendance and those whom
hey attended did. Some of the fair
.mokers we're Russians, and not in the
east inclined to unfurl the flag OF re-
yolt. That evening it was Learned
hat the crown princess of Saxe-Mein-
ngen is not the only granddaughter
II Queen Victoria who finds solace
n the cigarette. Why should not .
princess use it, as an old Irish woman
,ses the pipe to take the edge on ner-
The only harm is in the
lbuse. But there is no good thing
lnder the sun that is not mischievous
I taken in excess. There is no more
.arm in mild smoking than in mild
ca drinking. George Sand, who lived
O the age of seventy-three and
vas so active and hard-working
o the end, smoked cigarettes
nd cigars-and in excess The
moke curling before her eyes reused
70 her Imagination. Victor Hugo
ated smoking.
CACTUS IN PENNSYLVANIA
Luxuriant Patch of the Piant rosDd
Reowin1 wild In tho Woods.
While 4 Port Jervis couple were