Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-28
WOMEN VHO SMOKE.
THEY ARE DEVOTED TO SOCIETY AND TO
TEE CIGARETTE,
For Both Are Fashiun-Ih, Fab;; Becoming Very
Gsnsral-Many Swell Women Use Tobacco
and Do Not Hesitate to Say They Enjoy It.
Smoking among women is here to

stay.
In the homes OF the best society,
where a few years ago the feminine
cigarette was pulled in hidden corners
and bOlted and barred rsceSses, IL has
COW come 10 be openly smoked, and is
as much the finale TO feminine lunch
con or a mixed dinner as the cup OF
black coffee.
No married woman in society who
means to be considered at all dn de steele
neglects her cigarette. But to speak
the truth OF New York women, they
don't allow their daughters or encour-
age their young unmarried sisters 10
smoke. Not, they will tell you, because
there is anything inherently wrong in
smoking itself, but simply because they
regard il as one Of the luxurious dis
fractions which become necessary only
after the nerves have undergone GER
| tain wear ard tear.
Women fully launched drift into
smoking as they drift into fifty other
things which, as girls, they would think
it mistake 10 cultivate.
The confidence lately developed in
New York women has been drawn
straight from England. There the
women of highest rank all smoke, and
from the day they adopted the habit
have never cared to make the smallest
! secret about IL.
They didn't need 10, for the example
was first set from the home OF royalty
itself Dagmar, En- press OF Russia,
! when she visited her sister, the Princess
| Of Wales, was the first to set the habit.
! She had acquired ii in Russia, and
when she found no ladies' smoking
I room at Sandringham she requested the
! draperies of her bOudoir removed, so
that she could smoke there. She did II
so deliberately and daintiIy, yet with so
much zest, eXJolllng as she did so It's
| delights and benefits so far, that even
the Princess was soon won over. So
ciety followed with astonishing eass
and rapidity, and thence!orward among
women the cigarette was the thing.
LADY CHURCHILL AND HER CIGARETTES.
When Lady Randolph Churchill paid
| her last visit here she took good care TO
carry her cigarette case with herr Not
every woman here smoked, she knew,
and those who did were doing it more
or less sub rosa. Wherever she ap.
peared to luncheon she asked permits
sion TO smoke sfterward.
Only few had the courage TO join
her, and the others went about saying
TO each other, "Ouly 10 think OF il; Jen-
ME actually smokesw Lady Randolph
said in public, why, OF course Ismoke;
every nice woman 10 England smokes"
And then the New York women pIucked
up courage and said, And a yer y good
thing, too; LET'S do IT ourselves" So
they did.
Some women have already gone so
far as 10 have smoking rooms fitted up
for themselves, but the majority use
their husbands and, after dinner, accept
the cigarettes when passed around by
the foOtman, remaining TO smoke them
with the gentlemen. From thisit must
not be inferred that they cross their
feet or put them up on the table or fling
them forward while they loll back In
their chair, or necessarily adopt any
other attitude unbeCOming a woman
of nice reserve. They simply enjoy
their little weed in pretty,
chic, graceful way, and q pretty woman
need never look more feminine than
when she does it. Her ease and dainti-
ness, too, IN the matter will be pretty
good test Of savoir-isIre.
II is now five years-and smoking
was then talked OF with bated breath
since well known society woman sat
on the piazza OF her cottage at LeDox
one Lunday morning and pulled large
cigar while the people passed on the
way 20 church. Her cottage lay In the
direct road 10 the Episcopal edifce, and
what effect her action made 10 would
take the churchgoiDg people Of that
morning 20 describe: This lady has al
ways had big spice OF daring In her,
and II was privately understood at the
time that the thing was done as de-
fant protest against the women who
were learning TO smoke, but did 1t sur
reptitiousy or denied IT, Now these
same women no longer make any bones
about it.
MRS. HARRIMAN's METHODS.
Mrs. James Hartman, Of No. 10 West
Fifty-eighth street, who Is one Of New
York's most reserved and aristocratic
women, declares she has no smoking
room set apart. Her house is so draped
and furnished that IL can DO smoked la
all over, and always after lunch or
dinner the cigarettes are passed. Mrs.
Hartman first learned TO smoke In
Paris, where she held for years a de-
lightful cOsmOpoiite salon. On her re-
turn her smoking was new, and she tells
capital story OF how she first declared
openly In public her capacity for the
cigarette.
On a certain evening she had dining
with her Mrs. Honorine Vail, well known
In New York society as q charming
Oriental with whom Mr.. Robert Vail
fell 10 love and married 10 Turkey. Mrs.
Wallis own smoking salon has done N uch
to popularize smoking among New York
women. After dinner Mrs. Hartman,
who had provided Turkish cigarettes,
had them passed 70 her guests.
All" said the little lady, charmed,
Turkish, tool 1 thought they might
be straight cuts or something else like
that But won't some lady join me?"
No lady In the room would admit any
thing bat feeling shocked by 90 Ameri-
can at that period who smoked. ~
will" said Mrs. Hartman, who had
drawn on her tight glove, but saw that
MIRA. Vail did not care 10 smoke alone.
Next evening Mrs. Hartman drew on
these same gloves hastily for the opera.
On reaching her box the first thing she
did was TO adjust her pince-nez, when
she vas struck with the odor OF stale
tobacco smoke. She protested about it
in disgust, looked suspiciously az the i'm
maculate group OF men in her box, who
all declared ignorance; protested again,
declared positively it was 10 her box, If
not it must be In the next box; glanced
contemporary into the next box,
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