The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-10

porueres or the Orient and adorned with
rugs. Palm ferns nod in the corners, and
other green g=owths I'll vacant hooks;
alFans, lounges cosy chairs settees,
cushions, are there in plenty. and lot of
tnose quaint but handy occasional tables of
the Oriental type which one sees in pictures
OF turkish. or Persian interiors There is
decided DOOR of the Orient there, and the
place IS flooded with q soft electrict light.
IL would have been very foolish TO pre-
tend That all this was done for man, be-
cause the very face Of it carries the stamp
of 'Woman-her nook.f' In attendance is
bright negro boy, who.has the gift Of 81
lenee combined with celebrity, ana he pulls
up TO the visitors feet the occasional Ia
pie, and takes the order for the black cof-
ice or the demi-tasse Of burned brandy
ana coffee, and places IL before one almost
as soon as the order is given. Then he
vanishes.
Shortly after dinner the other night a
sun reporter followed the crowd leaving
the dinner room, and with two men and a
woman entered the smoking room. The
party evidently consisted of q bride, her
husband, and New York friend. The
woman sank down in one of the corners of
the dlyan, and was almost hidden from
view. One OF the men drew o silver cigar
ette case from his pocket and said they
would nave time for a smoke before the
otner man must leave them. The woman
accepted a cigarette. The men lit theirs
from matches on the Ia bic and the woman
III hers from the cigarette of her husband.
Another woman passed the corridor, step
pea IN, lit cigarette at the table, and
vanished with the burning cigarette in her
hano. Then several men came in, aud the
woman retired to get her coat for the thea
Ter. Later, after the theaters were out.
there were four women in the Turkish
room, al accompanied by men. al appar-
G0tlV were cnDara n OaptinC for no c0nVpr-
satlon passed between them. The women
were all smoking with their escorts.
The light is so well modulaued that IN
less one was sitting in the room or looked
closely as be passed through, it would be
almost impossible to see whether the
women were smoking or not The cigar
cites smoked were high grade of Turkish
tobacco, and they were smoked N a way
that signihed a regular habit. Nc Spanish
or Mexican senorita, brought up with a
cigarette from her youth, could have riValed
them IN grace or ease. There was nothing
to note beyond the bare fact that they were
smoking, there was no straining for effect,
evidently no feeling that were doing any
thing at all out OF the ordinary. There
was no loud laughter, but simplya subdUed
murmur Of voices anc the necessary Ian
guld movement Of the cigarette smoker as
the ash was dropped or another cigarette
lighted. -. ~
VI N'eAoD ~ eAtl utbbAOL bS W W HCbtiGI ING
room was especially fitted up for women,
the management reply that it is designed
Tor the comfort of women who do not care
TO have the odor of smoke in their apart
ments all night, and who do not wish to 80
away and leave their escorts to smoke by
themselves There is little doubt, if one
may judge from appearances, that the
women OF the day are TO some extent in IA
Fpr OF smoking. Those who have smoked
in secret are now going to smoke in a semi
public manner. This view IS taken by SOW
eraI hotol men, who are prepared to meet
any demand in that respect.
AT the Brunswick the manager said:
Yes, have heard something of the mat
ter. You know that smoking in public by
women has made gigantic strides OF late
years. was in Canada year or so ago,
at the Windsor in Montreal, and / assure
you that / saw number of very fine
women strOll across TO the cigar stand in
rotunda, buy some cigarettes, Light one
and vanish upstairs. I also saw them on
the platforms of the railroad stations
smoking in company with their husbands,
so that you see we are really little behind
the times in New York; if anything wiz
the Brunswick put in a ladies' smoking
room2 If you had asked me five years ago
if any woman would ike it to be known
that she smoked, l should have said GER
tainly not. Yet to-day they are smoking
The future viii care for itself"
At the Holland the question as to a
smoking room for women made the manger
raise,his eyebrows as he answered:
rs it possible that ladies are really
smoking in public2 Ia private is one thing.
but in public is quite another. OF course
do not wish to appear to criticise the
course of any hotels. They will follow the
demand of their guests; but l assure YOU
that, if a woman were TO enter the smoking
room of the Holland House and begin TO
smoke cigarette, I should feel it my
duty to ask her to cease smoking in pub
lic-at all events until / had inc uired fur
Their into the matter"
The manager of q well-known hotel, who
did not wish to be quoted, said: The
woman of to-day in this country is being
taught by the newspapers and societies of
all sorts to pride herself upon being a
self-reliant, independent, aggressive indi-
yiduality' That's the correct thing, is it
notf Well, she has begun TO think that
she is so, and there is 3 certain type OF
woman who will take up with this, or
or any new fad, run II into the ground. I
would not be in the least surprised to see
inside OF year man and his wife walk
down Fifth avenue, both of them smoking
as they go. Perhaps am an extremist.
Time win show.
There are hundreds of women to-da Y
who go through the streets wearing rid
ing habit who five years ago could not have
been hired to do so. Custom toerates it,.
Go up to the park any day and at the upper
end one will see women in carriages smok-
ing. Notglaringly openly but smoking.
Ride behind them and you see the little
cloud rise from the carriage, and you can
smell the cigarette. Put your horse for
ward and you will find only women in the
carriage, and you win sec no sign of a
cigarette. Yet they were smoking, and
there is not shadow of doubt about it.
My wife often takes cigarette when we
are alone and the babies have gone to bed,
but do you think we should smokeit before
the children or even before any friend l
might have at the house9 No, sir Neither
would she smoke in public place."
The manager Of the Normandie smiled.
"Women's smoking rooml No, sir; not
here Not that look upon a woman smok-
ing as vice or anything approaching it,
| know that South American women smoke
habitually. l like woman who appre-
ciates good cigar-whem il is smoked by
a man, eshan not havea smoking room
here yet for them"
The Senator as he Sees Himself.
From Springfield tMass) Republican qnd.)
Sometimes seeing a manias he secs him
self is almost as interesting an expert