Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-12-21

ever, I'm not going to, simply because
don't want to. My husband says may
but I believe II I should take him at his
word he would divorce me. Do you know,
that Is the way mon dor They say you
may and then they hate you il You do.
Its Just the course they have taken In
politics when women were concerned.
Certainly, 20 ahead and vote 1t you want
to, says my lord, but heaven help you the
day after you drop your first ballot"
From the ohatty women and the lunch
table betook me to the home OF one OF
the most honored and respected women OF
the North Side. Her name stands Tor oil
that is sweet and uplifting and progress
i've on lines that tend upward rather than
down.
"Oh, no, my dear child'' she said.
"Not u single woman Of the many whom
know and love smokes! How can you ask
me9 Iwould as soon think Of their doing
wanton things 1t is the idle babbfe of the
ignorant and the unposted that has start
ed such story about our Chicago ladies.
have never seen cigarette passed at
table where have dincd, nor have ever
known woman whom respected TO lift
a cocktail to her lips'
but are not these things done slyly?
Are you sure that some of these women
whom you have never seen smoke may not
indulge in the habit in secret, unbeknown
to any but their intimate friends?"
II should be sorry to know If they do
and hope 1 shall die before my faith In
womanhood receives the blow such knoWl-
edge would BRING
Next to be talked with on the subject
was vivacious little married woman
dwelling in one of the aristocratic suburbs.
Smoke? Indeed we do, but always sub
rosa," said she. why, if you never will
tell, I will inform you as to what we did
last night at Mrs So -and-so's (mention
ing the name of a society leader). We all
smoked in one room and told stories until
2 O'Clock. Besides that, drank six cock
tails! Oh, my dear, it isn't life until you
get behind tho curtain and away from the
footlights!''
lis smoking on the increaso?"
II think it u.s. There is not a married
woman in our set who hasn't tried 1t. 1t
made some of them SO i'll that they gave
it up after the first effort, but the ma
jority are welded to the fad. No, we have
no smoking rooms. We just smoke in our
bedrooms. I believe my mother would
kill me if she found me out, but my hus-
band likes to see me with cigarette.
He wouldn't wish me to smoke at pub
lilo dinner party, but he has no objection
to my indulging on the sly. There's Mrs.
Blank. You would never believe it, good
old Presbyterian stock that she comes
from, but a bunch Of cigarettes disappears
at a sitting with her."
Another one with whom I talked cited
a case to me of very rich woman in the
city whose husband is blind and demands
her constant care and attention.
"Why, that woman would die IT 1T were
not for her cigarettes, " said my informant
lit is the only way that she can keep her
nerves up to the constant strain that is
put upon them. Her husband is extremely
fastidous about women. He demands tho
most absolute rectitude of them, but he
says of his wife: If Kate finds it any So
lace to smoke, she shall smoke. Her life
Is hard enough, tied to blind fellow like
me, and would be brute to object to any
comfort that falls in her way.''
The last visit made was to the home
of friend who has been recently bercaved
In terrible way of one who was dearest