The St. Johns herald., 1894-06-28
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 KaImucIk Mothers
 Smoking Infants.

the columns Of the North American Review and other periodicals, and those who broke lances for and against were women. Mrs. Lynn Lynton, whose novels are read here as feuille- tons so extensively and with SO much gusto, is quoted as leading the assault against the lady smokers. Is it true that she calls the. cigarette when in lady's mouth tl.e emblem of revolt: If so, she is not ID 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 onecigarette apiece but two or three. 4 minister Of Queen Christina says that highly respectable and respec- tedroyal lady is an,inveterate and yet eran smoker. She got in the habit of smoking a cigarette when she was 2b- Less of the Lradschin, . sinecure she lost on getting married. Her cousin, Archduchces NathiIde. who was en- gagged to King Lunbert when he was prince Of Savoy, lost her life owing to her fondness for cigarettes. She vas forbidden by her father, Archdu1e 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 tte courtyard on which she was looking down. The archduchess, who was wearing muslin dress, whipped the cigarette out of her mouth and hid it behind her back. It came ia contact with the muslin, and she was in a mo- ment enveloped in flames. there being strong draught where she stood.
 Most of the Russian grand dEca- esses are smokers. Grand Duchess ] Wlademir thinks husband and wife | who smoke are less likely to fall cut | than if the former alone smoked. It is l not known whether the queen of Italy | smokes, but some of her ladies cer- tainly do. When 1 was at Stresa l saw them enjoying cigarettes when boating 1 on the lake, and in the grounds Of the | duchess of Genoa's villa, where the | queen was staying. The crown prin- cess of Saxe-Afeiningen could not live | without her cigarette. It neither takes from her good looks. nor spoils her teeth, nor diminishes her activity. She is nearly thirty-four, but appears scarcely twenty-six. The Infanta Eulalia spoke when she was last on the Riviera of the comtesse de Paris as having set her an example as Q smoker. As the French say, the infanta beau coup d'inagination, and saw in the cigarette or cigar of the comtcsse pipe which she believed that royal lady smoked in the streets of Seville. Span ish ladies are gratuitously credited or diacredited with being great smokers. They may do so in Cuba, though they are there more conservative and greater sticlllers for the proprieties than ct Madrid. The ladies who best patronize tobacconists are, next to the Kalmucls the Russians. The ruling passions of Kalmuclx women are ribbons to twist round their long tresses, tea, tobacco and bright handl1erchiefs. But if they have to choose between tobacco and tea their option is for the former.
 When a little Kalmucl comes into the world-an event that happens rarely twice in the same menage, the mamma is given well-flled pipe to tmokc before she nurses the baby. The little one takes to smoking before it is weaned. The pipe is the great cure for nervous headache. Fredcas- borg, where thc czar and czarina suIa- mer, is the dullest place in the world. The queen of Denmark is exacting of respect for the proprieties. The last charge that anyone could think of bringing against her court is that of fast behavior. Yet most of the young and youngish ladies there are smokers There is no better way of showing off pretty hands and rings than toying with cigarette. X court party from Fredensborg one evening was dinino at the Copenhagen Trivoh in the col .onnade of the restaurant. There was a large threatrical party near them; the actresses did not smoke, but the ladies in attendance and those whom they attended did. Some of the fair smokers were RGssians, and not in the least inclined to uRfurl tho flag Of re volt. That evening 1t was learned that the crown princess of Saxe-Mein- ingen is not the only granddaughter of Queen Victoria who finds a solace in the cigarette. Why should not q princess use 1t, as an cid Irish woman uses tie pipe to take the edge off ncr- vousness? The only harm is in the abuse. But tLcre is no good thing under the sun that is not mischievous if taken in excess There is no more harm in mild smoking than iD mild tea drinking. George Sand,w lived to the age of seventy-three and was so active and har1-wcrlzing to the end, smoked cigarettes and cigars-and in excess. The smoke curling before her eyes reused up her imagination. Victor Hugo hated smoking.
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