The morning times., 1896-01-19
SMALL VICES INCREASING
Nerves of Women Shattered by
the Growing Custom.
CIGARETTE is THEIR BANH
Athletics Should Be Cultivated
in Order to Discourage the
Prevailing Evils.

1 'TihsAlA FA''o ilN EIfIilF on tiat lUGTgJ 81
among women. A least the tall girl with
skates on her arm said so, aud she didn't
call them small vices, either but down.
right bad habits. Just notice around
among your friends she went on,
and perhaps it's the extra nervous
tension Of our me dern life. but you'n finI
that seven at least out Of every ten women
encourage themselves in some peculiar
aud inJuriously morbid tastes.
1T began few years ago. innocentI,
enough, in the first use OF tobacco. Lots
"r US thought it piquant aud pretty To
puif smoke rings from a Iltic Turkish
cigarette, ard now nothing is more as
t"nishing To observe than the numbers
"f girls, right in their dCbutante season
and matrons with many other delight
ful occupations aud faDcies to busy lips
aud fingers, who are confirmed cigarette
fiends.'
MANICCRE's TESTIMONY.
The little roll Of tobacco, no bigger than
an oat straw, has given place 10 what Is
vastly more Injurious than the biting
Virginia weed meu smoke, the big
opium tinCturcd Oriental cigarette. The
gentle smokers allow themselves six and
eight Of these day. enjoying th, soOth-
ing sensation they impart ana decpJy
inhaling every mouthful they draw. Tho
extent to which the habit has grown ,iii
not impress me until mr manicure men
toned how many Of her patrons once =
week came to have the inside points OF
the thumb and index fingers blcached
from nicotine stains.
Now the worst phase of the cigarette
habit is that the insidious tobacco is nos
of so much injury to women's lungs as
It IS to ;Eeir nerves. This Is an entirely
different effect from that produced on the
masculine system.
Men don't feel the nervous shock he.
cause they lead more active lives than
their sisters, bet it was tire calm ex-
PLANTATION of a little person / found col.
apsed and trembling among her divan
pillows, that she guessed She had been
smoking too hard. Any one would have
agreed with her at the sight OF her pail
lid cheeks and over:briCht eyes set in
OnlinOusly dark rings. Nevertheless she
insisted. IN spite or her doctors admoui-
tions that nervous pIoslration in its
worst fo-Ia might ovcrtakc her. she needed
and would continue to delight in the ex-
htlaration her cigarettes supplied.
cup THAT CHEERS.
The desire for mental stimulus. for ex-
djement. prompts women into these
curious extrava garces and the surest vie.
tins are those whose mentality Is wen
above jhc ordinary.
Next after the cigarette habit the in
ordinate tea drinking INDUCED IN = enough
20 make one shudder for th. nerves and
digestive appliances OF the f.tUrc genera.
lion. There really doesn't appear 10 be u
more harmless taste and its all right
enough until IL grows into dissipation,
Then il i far more inSidiOus than regular
beer drinking and as ultimately destructive
as whisky.
Any physician will agree that between
tea and coffee the former contains the
most dcletcrious elements. but DO woman
ever stops to consider the results that
must arise from pouring six cups or
this deadly stringent in one afternoon
down that most sensitive piece or human
the altmcntary canal. She takes
six cups incidentally on her calling rounds,
and at her breakfast and luncheon helps
herself to more OF 80 powerful a beverage.
These genuine hard drinkers require their
tea stronger and more frequently as time
goes on. On the brain, tea has an effect that
IS inSpiring-it sOothcs and rrlaNes The
muscles, but withcrs the digestive organs.
From tea drinking to tea eating l. Il step
too frequently made now among women
to excite surprise. HaudfuiS of dry leaves
are munched with as much relish IS though
they We're sailed almonds. and with an erect
On the complexion and liver very like thaI
II morphine.
RAW CEREALS.
Whether the last generation Of mothers
left legacy all around Of peculiarly weak
lervoIs systems t0 the-r daughters. or
whether the complicated questions of the
lodr are too uistrncting To the female
mind. l can't say. but moderation in tastes
seems to be dlSregardCd. Haven't Won no.
lced the number or women who Keep their
little bonbonuieres full Of soda mint tablets
IT potash pellets, enjoying them though
hey were bonbons?
Not very long ago in Paris the fashion
or pallid checks induced a few absurd
reatures to eat raw barley, wheat, or
'ats in hopes of an unwholcsomc fl,Sh col
ring Ever 50 many Otherw iSc sane Amcri-
an women have tried 1t. and from 4 trial
ave fallen into the shocking habit Of cat
ing CupfulS OF these raw cereals. husks
and all tha; hitherto we thought only pom
erous miI.Stones could cope with.
But the barley eaters are no whit worse
han their stupid sisters who have an end
craze for perfumes. Drink
ne cologne few drops at time on
Imp OF sugar, is the mi!dcst form Of this
ice. Over in Paris some rrpreh"nsibie
crfumcrs showed their dis>ipated patrons
low sweet odors could bc introduced under
he skin with n hypoderrnic syringe. and
I see the practice appearing on this side
POPULAR PROSTRATION.
OF course all the results of these fan
-astic notions are easy to see. for ! inter
raIs, and never more surely than this win
.er. has nervous prUstration threatened To-
become epidemic in the feminine ranks.
It is partly the fashion aud partly - rcvcla-
lion of the actual truth for eight ur more
women to gather at auy time around
luncheon table and complain that they are
lust up from beds Of discomfort and divauS
If exhaustion. There is n remedy for this
vii, growing as il is, for YOU Will find
hat the most invetcrate smokers Will often
give up their cigarettes for the sake Of their
wheel. Somehow tobacco and bicycles do
lot work well together, aud between the
.wo the wheel usually wins the day. Ikuow
If many hardened tea sOakcrS who have
zone on correcting milk diet since they
ell victims TO the golf craze, and it's no use
o skate on stomach unuri>hcd on raw
wheat It's the increasing Indulgence in
outdoor exercise that is going to give wo-
nen a chance TO pull out of their bad hab-
Is and drop morbid eCccntricitieS for OXy'