The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-25
THE SNAPPY FRENCH EYE.
SPARKLE BROUGHT OUT BY THE
FUMES OF A CIGARETTE.

Fascinates Young and OId alike.
One Puff Opens the Eyes, Next Putt
Makes Them shine, Third Puff
Makes Them Snap-The Secret of
wit Found in "a Cigarette.
New York, Oct. 23.-While the talk
about drug drunkards' is going on, and
people are becoming convinced that the
woman who talks so cleverly and sparkes
so brilliantly is steadily under the influ-
ence of some insidious drug, that same
woman goes merrily on-and keeps her
secret!
She is, indeed under the influence of
drug, and it is this drug" that makes
her the witty sprite she IS. But when all
is known it is harmless little affair.
that hurts nobody except the person who
condemns it. "
The drug drunkards make merry over
the notoriety they attain, and continue to
maintain the still tongue and the wise
head which is the secret of their success.
81 suppose you would call me one Of
the fends," said a very clever woman,
laughing merrily over her classification.
"but since you are so Mortified at the
idea / win let you into the secret and,
1 doubt not but you will become one your
self"
"Impossible"
Don't say so until you know more
about it,
81 am, as you will admit" said she,
tipping back upon her couch until she
rested against a pile of cushions, "one
of the most admired women of your
acquaintance. don't say 1 am the
most brilliant I leave that for others
to say. But you know me! My eyes are
called snappy French eyes. l learned to
snap them from a Frenchman.
well here's the moral trutht My brill
liancy. my wit, my whateveg1gpu call IT,
is due entirely to my-well, drug II you
| want to give it that name Without my
| little smoke 1 should be as lustreless as
| some dear good women we both know.
! The children the servants and the new
| stair carpet would bound my vision men
tally. With the drug it is bounded only
by Ii Hung Changes wit and the czar' 5
wisdom l can rove across the earth
touching every topic / can be all things
| to all men, conversauonaIly. I can be al
! sympathy to all women, outwardly. on,
my drug is a wonder! F-.ly
This drug" chatted the red lips oppo-
| site me. lis taken by me in the form Of a
cigarette every afternoon. Sometimes,
| if [ am going to a hail, ! take 1t again in
| the evening / take it about an hour be-
fore l wish to shine. In my negligee.
seated on this couch, 1 take my Little
smoke an hour before dinner, and my
husband says / am the only dinner COM
panion in the world worth sitting VISA
Wis"
Leaning across to small stand my brill
liant chatterer opened a box of bronze lac
| quer, and, taking out pinch Of brown
powder, scattered it cleverly along a mar
row strip of paper, and rolling 1t into a
cigarette, handed it to me with match.
Strange" said she, that lucifer
matches were first peddled during the cor
! onation of Queen Victoria. They were Gu
| riosities then and sold for penny apiece.
If we had been girls, with Vie, we would
have had to strike spark from flint ia
! light our cigarettes"
How can you remember-everything
] asked, putting az the powder cigarette.
81 don't It's the cigarette"
One, two, three puffs! Four, five, six
puffs. ] felt my drowsy eyes opening a
| little, and the sleepy feeling ] had had a
minute before was passing away. was
| becoming singularly wide awake.
! Seven, eight, nine puffsl The droWsiness
was all gone. / was as alert as though
| had awakened from ten-hour sleep.
sat up and looked around. The colors in
the couch rug were standing out, and
was noticing the curtains and commenting
| upon a Cairo prayer rug hung to the east
| fact which had escaped my attention be
fore AN around me there was stealing a
| delicious odor. Was / under the cigarette 6
| influence? 4fg
what was it?' / asked, laying down
| the little Drowned stump upon the lac.
quer and looking at my hostess.
ut was my insdious drug" laughed
| she Come try another. This is Of a
! different kind You won't get drunk from
mixing your smoke" AS she spoke she
rolled another, this time from a pinkish
powder, and handed II TO me
Tell me-" said, as l puffed away al
the deliciousness, what It is"
wei, / don't like to give the secret
away, because / know you will tell IL
but l will nevertheless. Though, mind
you. l am not to be spoken of as a 'hend
| any more. l must stand forth In my true
light as a woman who knows a good thing
| when she finds IL. gt
/ "That cigarette which you first smoked
was a mixture of two very harmless in
gradients, cinnamon and green tea. The
| tea was purchased by me Of an importer
and rubbed fine with pestle and mortar
| See." pointing to a druggists OUTFIT upor
tho table, that Is my factory. The elm
! namon was the pure spice also powdered
extra fine The two were mixed In equa
| proportions.
You have heard Of tea cigarettes, anC
! their nerve-revivifying properties. These
are less nerve-stimulating and mor'
! Frightening. They wake you up without
unnerving you afterwards. The cinnamon
is for perfume.
Have you ever perfumed your room by
| burning cinnamon In flame or on some.
thing hot2 You know how sweet the all
IL. as with the aroma Of the east Mixed
with the tea there is the same arom;.
] and the cinnamon Is good for the nerves