The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-02-03
FEMININE SMOKERS.
A Practice That Is Growing in Fa-
vor with the Fair Sex.
Royal Russian Women Who are Very
Fond of Their Cicarettes-A Peculiar
Custom OF Eslmuck Mothers
Smoking Infants.


on about Understanding women il
the columns of the North American
Review and other periodicals, ant
those who broke lances for and agains
were women. Mrs. Lynn Lynton
whose novels are read here as feuille
tons SO extensively and with so mucl
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:
IT SO, she is not up to date. so far as
continental practices go. The cigar
cite has not yet found it's 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 one'cigarette apiece but two
! or three. A minister of Queen Christina
says that highly respectable and respec-
tedroyal lady is an,inveterate and a vet
Gran smoker. She got in the habit of
smoking cigarette when she was ab-
bess of the Hradschin, q sinecure she
lost on getting married Her cousin,
Archduchess Mathilde, who was en-
gagged to King Humbcrt 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 so. One summers day,
preventing, 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 q muslin dress, whipped the
cigarette out OF her mouth and hid it
behind her back. 1t came in contact
with the muslin, and she was in o mo-
ment envelopcd in flames, there being
a strong draught where she stood.
Most of the Russian grand duch- |
esses are smokers. Grand Duchess
WladeInir thinks husband and wife |
who smoke are less likely to fall ont
than if the former alone smoked 1t ia /
not known whether the queen of italy
smokes, but some of her ladies GER
tainly do. When was 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 prir-
cess of Msiningen could not live
without her cigarette. 1t neither takes
from her good looks, nor spoils her
teeth, nor diminishes her activity.
She is nearly thirty-four, but appears
twenty-six. The Infanta
Eulalia spoke when she was last on
1he Riviera of the comtesse de Paris as
having set her an example as a smoker.
Is the French say, the infanta beau
cup d'imagination, and saw in the
or cigar of the comtesse a
'ipe which she believed that royal lady
molied in the streets of Seville. Span
SD ladies' are gratuitousIy credited or
iscredited with being great smokers. |
hey may do SO in Cuba, though they
re there more conservative and greater
ticklers for the proprieties than at
ladrid. The ladies who best patronize
obacconists are, next to the Kalmuclsss
ne Russians. The ruling passions of
-almuck women are ribbons to twist t
ound their long tresses, tea, tobacco v
nd bright handkerchiefs. But if they
ave to choose between tobacco and il
"a their option is for the former h
When little Kalmucl1 comes into
lie world-an event that happens tc
lrely twice in the same menage, the IN
ANNA is given well-hlled pipe to
noke before she nurses the baby. in
he little one tal7es to smoking before ~
is weaned. The pipe is the great w
Ire for nervous headache. Fredens-
org, where the car and czarina sum no
er, is the dullest place in the world. -,
he queen of Denmark is exacting OF 90
spect for the proprieties. The last
large that anyone could think of ~
'inging against her court is that of :.
st behavior. Yet most of the young -
ID youngish ladies there are smokers. 90
lere is no better way of showing off
city hands and rings than toying
tn cigarette. A court party from eir
edensborg one evening was dining me
the Copenhagen Trivoli in the col
made of the restaurant. There was fol
large Theatrical party near them; Gel
actresses did not smoke, but the qua
lies in attendance and those whom Ba
~ attended did. Some of the fair
okers were Russians, and not in the
st inclined to unfurl the flag of re- /
t. That evening it was learned mo
It the crown princess of Saxe-Mein- mil
'en is not the only granddaughter of
Queen Victoria who finds a solace inf
the cigarette. Why should not A
ncess use it, as an old Irish woman ma
s the pipe to take the edge off ner- reli
isness? The only harm is in the of t
Use. But there is no good thing DRY
Ter the sun that is not mischieyous the
llScn in excess. There is no more sire
m in mild smoking than in mild z
drinking. George Sand. who lived mn,
the age of seventy-three and the
% ac1iVe ana nard-worklng gres
my eia' SMOKED cigarettes be S
eisars-ai1a IN excess. The don
he curling before ner eyes rOuSaQ nan,