The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-12-18
USING THE WEED
ALL OVER THE WORLD THE CENTER
SEX FANCIES THE CIGARETTE.

Taste and Discrimination Shown by DIFF
ferent Nationalities-Until 1850 Anglo
Saxon Women Did Not Smoke Cigarettes.
Now 1t Is Almost Proper.
Despite the crusade led on the one side
by tobaccopbobiacs and on the other by
enterprising American cigar dealers, the
wicked cigarette still keeps on its career OF
conqueripg and to conquer. 1t is made
and used il every land, and, according to
some German statistician, enough are
smoked every year to reach to the moon.
Only of late years has the cigarette been
used by women Of the Anglo-Sa1on race.
AS late as 1850 it was an unheard of thing
for an English or American lady to use
the dreaded Article. Since then there has
been revolution in every respect The
cigarette is used universally in both Great
Britain and the United States and in daily
increasing quantities by the women of
both countries.
The habit received official sanction IN
1882, when the Princess of Wales first put
them on the table at large dinner party
given to her own sex, and in this country
when the wife Of president served them
at ladies' dinner at the White House.
In other countries there is no such preju-
dice. Women and girls use them along
side Of their fathers and brothers. Never
theless women do not smoke them exactly
as men do. They are in the main more
delicate and dainty. 1 spoke to a leading
Broadway tobacconist yesterday, and he
said: Men smoke any cigarette that
comes along and generally prefer those
that are stronger or coarse. Only one man
in 90 shows any judgment and chooses
the finest varieties in the market.
when women buy cigarettes, 1t Is just
the opposite. Nearly all want tobaccos as
fine as those of Turkey or Egypt, and only
one in ten cares for the harsher flavor Of
the American leaf"
Mime H. de lie Croi1, wife of Professor
de lie Croix, one of the distinguished for
eign representatives at the Worlds fair,
has Travelled very extensively and given
this subject considerable thought. She
said to me: If you take IL the world
around, women are much more fastidious
in their smoking than are men. In Bel
GUM, where l was born, the women fol-
low the example Of their French sisters,
but not with the Same abandon and grace
In France any number of women dis
sipate in this fashion. They enjoy a Whit
with their coffee after meal or during a
friendly chat or an evening party. They
prefer light cigarettes, but, strange to say,
do not seem TO care for mouthpieces.
They have a very pretty kind, which, 1
think, are homemade. They are wrapped
in rice paper, but are hardly any thicker
than match. 1 have seen a few of this
sort in Germany, but nowhere else.
The Spanish women are inveterate
smokers, but confine their choice to the to-
baccos Of Cuba and Porto Rico. They dis
like the manufactured article and almost
invariably roll their own. They use flaky
preparation, which can be readily put into
proper shape. They also show considera-
BILE ingenuity in their selection of paper
Besides the white rice paper and cotton
paper they employ tobacco paper and ma
terial favored with chocolate, rose, vanil-
la, musk and other perfumes
The Portuguese are as much addicted
TO smoking as the Spaniards. They like
the strong, black tobacco of Brazil and
annually import of it large quantities.
The women are not as delicate in their
smoking as are those Of Spain and France.
The tobacco is so black that it discolors
their teeth as well as their fingers and fire.
quently induces the front teeth to decay.
Along the African shore, in Algiers
and Tunis, both the native and European
women indulge in the habit. They have
great variety to choose from. They grow
fair quality of tobacco in that country
and make it into very passable cigarettes,
and they also mix it with the American,
Spanish and Turkish leaves. The native
women have a comical way of squatting
down in Turkish fashion and making
batch of cigarettes upon one of the low Ia
bles In use in that part of the world.
They think nothing of rolling 80 or 100
at a single sitting. Some are hard smok-
ers and do away with just as many as they
can make.
Egypt is devoted to the weed. Strange
ly enough, although the land grows to-
bacco, it is of such poor quality as to be
used by none save the poorest. That
which is employed both for home con-
sumption and expectation to all parts OF
the globe comes from Roumania and Rou-
melia
In China the trail Of tobacco smoke
is everywhere. Almost every Chinaman
is well acquainted with the weed, and SO
are millions of the other sex. a Chinese
lady is extremely exquisite in her enjoy
ment of nicotine She will not touch the
tobacco of her own land or of Japan, Su-
matra or Manila, but wants the finest va
rieties of American or English manufac-
ture. Instead of rolling it in one paper she
docs 1t in two so arranging the sheets
that the lower one becomes a mouthpiece
and the upper one reservoir of the to-
bacco- She smokes it almost to the last
particle and then throws the mouthpiece
away. The cigarette itself is very thin
and the smoke light and cool In this
way she avoids staining her teeth or her
hands. When she smokes, she washes it |
down with occasional drafts of hot tea,
and when finished she employs tongue
scraper, o toothbrush and sachet powders |
10 still further cleanse her mouth. /.
Wealthy Chinese ladies will have quite an |
outfit. There viii be two or three hand !
some jars for holding the tobacco, a hand |
some matchbox, an ash cup, little vase /
for holding the cigarette papers, a silver /
urn for the finished cigarettes, two or |
three small boxes for mouthpieces and 4
salver of either metal or lacquer !
upon which all these things are served.
THE women of Japan are moderate |
smokers. They use Japanese tobacco, |
which looks like reddish brown sewing
silk and is rather lnslpid and weak. They 4
roll il, but not with the same grace as the
Spaniards. and smoke il under the most
homogeneous circumstances. One is with
the meal and the other when taking a
bath. 1t Is no uncommon thing for two
japanese ladies TO be bathing in the same
room, and To increase the pleasure of the
occasion by using cigarettes from the time
lhey enter the room until they leave it
Ihey are exquisitely clearly, these Japs-
nese Woman. and harhe So many times a |