The sun., 1896-02-10
HER SALON WASUP TODATE
a WESTERN WOM4N's 0RIErANCn
AGAINST kEH YORK IDEAS.

Encouraged By Chicago Ciippings from
Now York Newspapers, She Started Ia
TO Make Sensation n-Sho Succeeded.
but Tea Cigarettes Were Disastrous.
Tho Western woman has a grievance. At
lcast one Of them has. and she complains to
THE SuN IN this outburst:
Perhaps 1t is because our taste Is different,
or perhaps II is because our Western sense Of
humor falls TO catch the flavor of nm Eastern
joke, but for some reason ur other we " estern
women often have seasons of MOURNING n.ter
we have been following the suggestions wo
bnve cuilcd from certain New York papers.
That is TO say. We do not always do the culing
ourselves. but sometimes we find that the Chi
cnTo exchange editors have taken n fnncy to
certain New York items and have repeated
them In their columns This always gives us
added confidence. and we go tlithcly on in our
mad career of doing the New York news
papers tell us to do
Judging from many Of tho results, feel
pretty sure that the Chicago editor saw the joke
and thought we would. too; but In spitN nf ~
peat"d shocks. we still keen q btyh opinion os
New York as the source of much which Is swell
and new tangled, and we always take these
little suggestions in dend earnest.
Don't say that you should think that we
would learn better and would find out that the
only safe thing to do is to rely on our own judg-
ing phrases, the latest thing and the newest
fad and 90 on, all our recollection of past ex-
periences away and we are ready to be
filled up again with whatever fool notion tho
New York newspaper writer has to offer. Those
people have made this winter never to be. for
gotten one In my life.
In the first place, one of them produced one
Of those periodical articles stating that the
latest thing among New York's brightest
Ay..,C Il
ways met distinguished authors, painters, no.
tors, and SO on, and where the hostess rcgncd
Ia Recamier, De StHel, ct cetera. AS usual, I
was fired TO emulation, and l. too, opened q
Snsand IN cas .hs f Sf
unvarnished pronunciation Of the word but AZ
the beginning Insisted, with more or less sue
cess. on having 1t called salon
I'VE didn't have any distinguished authors,
painters, or actors among our acquaintances,
doesn't seem to run to those lines, but we had
to get along with the material we found avail
ed to that MYSELF that | was going to have
salon. and the attendance was .encouraEing..
served tea and waters and kept my mind on
Recamer and De Stael.
This went on for a few weeks, and began
last had struck vein of pure gold in New
suggestion Which seemed i to fit I right In into nI my
case. 1t was quite as old and timcworn as the
hrTt tone one but had never regarded i, 50 seroas-
drinking, and must confess that 1t did seem
to me that New York was putting II pretty
this article, the women Of Gotham put rum,
brandy, nbsinthe, W,hiskey, gin, and various
| other liquors into their tea, and do 1t in no
II am not a ,eetotaler but I was somewhas
for a salon, and meant to follow out my pur-
pose to the end. bc 1t bitter or even alcohol ic-
sdutera,ions of the tea so mid, in a fact that
| no one but ms husband would ever have COM
hava snss @ e9i9fs that my
caused considerable comment. How is it. I
wonder. with those New York onesI
But tho real crisis came when read In q
Chicago paper-cOp!ed from a Gotham sheet
| the announcement that cigarettes Of tea were
the cigarette idea in my mind, for of course
I had read about New York women smoking.
| but / had not seemed to sec my way clear to
| introducing such radical feature at my salon
ness seemed to settle the whole question. No
one could say tina. the ladies who came ought
not to smoke tea as we'll as drink it. SO de-
Il cut out the article in question so that
hye S se on nat y R to
the smart. set of New York to bansh any
sfruPes, not wrong in my
on calling it-was held on the afternoon of
Sunday. the a8th of January, and the gather
| ton from my husbandmwas an unusually
large an sparkling one. The tea cigarette idea
.."of course, we had 10 roll our own cigar
cites, and 1t is right here that the trouble be-
| gins. You need not think that it was because
] we had never rolled u cigarette. either. BY
| rolled cigarettes for their husbands. brothers.
| cousins and SO on. 1t is really pathetic. the
| demands which have been put upon them
| No. my people were not ignorant. The most
| experienced man mnde just big mess of it
as the most ingenious of the girls. would
| Just as soon try to roll cigarette OF coarse
| sawdust OF green tea.
But we did literally lick them into shape
| at last, and then lighted them and nban-
| doned ourselves to the joys promised us by the
| delusive article. These joys were dcscr bed
| as follows There's II freshness n scent about
1t that tobacco at its best can never give. It's
| sweet and cooling TO the throat and 1t mildly
exhlarates you at once a tea cigarette is
| good to the very end. It's awfully hard to
| roll. but when it is complete and a match
| touched to it, it makes up for all the time you
| spend on it,
well, as l said before. suppose it is q Joke
| and we Westerners miss the point Mildly
exhilaratngv Sweet and cOolingn "A fresh
| ness. a scent" Would you really like TO know
| how a tea cigarette tastes! Well, at the 1irst
| few puffs 1t tastes like a spring bonfire! To:
| ward the middle there is an added flavor OF
| hrecrackers and the last half-if you hold on
| that long-has decided aroma of punk! That
| Is Il tea cigarette
"As Western woman who has suffered
much and often, protest."