The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-02-02
FEMININE SMOKERS.
A Practice That Is Growing in Fa-
vor with the Fair Sex.
Royal Russian Women Who Very
Fond OF Their Cigarettes-A Peculiar
Custom of kaImuck Mothers
Smoking Infants

custom OF hainluch HsotheEs
Smoking Infants
A brisk controversy has been going
on about cigarette-smolzing women in
the columns of the North American
Review and other periodicals, and
those who broke lanceS for and against
We're women. Mrs Lynn Iyuton.
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 a
lady's mouth tie emblem of revolt2
If so, she Is not mp TO date 50 far as
continental practices go. The cigar
cite has not yet found its way with
after-dinner coffee into the Official
drawing-room. bat it soon wiz. At all
the houses setting up TO style ii )
served at intimate dejcuners and
small but lively dinners.
Nobody is shocked at ladies smoking
not merely onccigaretto apiece but two
or three. \ minister Of Queen Christina
says that highly respectable and rcspcc-
tedroyal lady is an nvetcrate and a vet
eran amoiser. She got in the habit Of
smoking cigarette when she was al
bess Of the Hradschin, sinecure She
Archduchcss Mathilde, who was en-
gagged To King Hunbert when he was
prince OF Savoy, lost her life owing 20
her fOndness for cigarette. She was
forbidden by her father, Archdu.5c
Albert. TO smoke. but none the less
went on doing so. One summers day.
orcveuIng. .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 a muslin dress, whipped the
cigarette ont of her mouth and hid il
behind her back. II came in contact
with the muslin. and she was in n mo-
mcnt enveloped in fame, there being
a strong draught where she stood
Most of the Russian grand duch-
esses are smoker. Grand Duchess
Wladerlir thinks a husband and wife
who smoke are less likely 90 iaIl ont
than If the former alone amol,el. II IS
not known whether the queen Of Italy
smokes. but some of her ladies Ger
tainly do When / was AT Stre.si I 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 prin-
cess of SaNe-Alciningen could not live
without her cigarette. II neither takes
from her good looks. nor spoils her
teeth, nor diminishes her activity.
She is nearly thirty-four, but appear
scarcely twenty-siN- The InfaIta
Euialia spoke when she was last ON
the Riviera of the comtcfse de Paris a.
having set her an example as q smoi-er
As the French say, the infanta a bcaU-
colp d'imagination, and saw in the
cierarette or ci9ar OF the comtesse a
pipe which she believed that royal lady
smoked in the streets OF Seville. Span
ish ladies are gratuitously credited or
discredited with being great smokers.
They may do so in Cuba, though they
are there more conservative and greater
sticklers for the propricties than at
Madrid. The ladies who best patronize
tobacconists are. next TO the kalmuclSs,
the Russians. The ruling passions Of
Kalmucll women are ribbons TO twist
round their long tresseS. tea. tobacco,
and bright handkerchiefs. But if they
have to choose between tobacco and
tea their option is for the former.
When little Kalmuclz comes into
the world-an event that happens
rarely twice in the same menage. the
mamma is given a wcll-filled pipe TO
smoke before she nurses the baby.
The little one talses TO smoking before
il is weaned. The pipe Is the great
cure for nervous headache. kredens-
borg. where the ear and czarina sum
mer Is the dullest place n the world
The queen of Denmark is cxacting OF
respect for the propricties. The last
charge that anyone could think OF
bringing against her court l. that OF
fast behavior. Yet most OF the young
II
There is no better way OF showing OF
pretty hands and rings than toying
with a cigarette. 4 court party from
Fredonsborg one evening was dining
at the Copenhagen Trivoi in the col
onrade Cf the RESTAURANT. There was
a LARGE Theatrical 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 Russians. and not in the
least inclined to unfurl the lag of re-
volt. That evening it was learned
that the crown princess Of Saze-Alein-
ingen is not the only granddaughter
of Queen Victoria who finds a solace
in the cigarette. Why should not
princess use IL. as an old Irish woman
uses the pipe to take the edge off nor
vousnees? The only harm IS IN the
abuse. But there Is no good thing
under the sun that is not mischievous
II taken in excess There II no more
harm in mild smoking than IN mild
tea drinking. George Sand.who lived
to the age of seventy-thrce and
was so active and hard working
To the end, smoked cigarettes
and cigars-and in excess. The
smoke curling before her eyes reused
UP her imagination. Victor Hugo
hated smoking