The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-01-23
THE FEMININE VICES
GOlfand Wheeling as a Reform Measure
Among Women Of the Smart Set.
THE TEA AND COLOGNE NERVES AILNEHT
Athletics should He Largely Guilt.
waited by Women In order TO Dis.
courage Growing Liking for
Cigarettes, Chewing Ten md Eat.
ing Raw Oatmeal.


Cigarettes, Chewing Ten md Eat.
ing Raw Oatmeal.
Small Vices are greatly on the in
crease among women. AT least the tall
| girl, with skates on her arm said SO
and she didn't call them small Vices
either. but downright bad habits Just
notice around among your friends" ,she
went on, and perhaps it's the extra
nervous tension Of our modern life, but
you'll find that seven at least out of
every ten women encourage themselves
| In some peculiar and Injurious morbid
| tastes
1t began q few years ago innocently
enough, In the first use of tobacco. Lots
OF US thought Is piquant and pretty to
| pun smoke rings from II little Turkish
cigarette, and now nothing Is more as
tonishinE to observe than the numbers
or girls. right In their debutante season
and matrons with many other delight
| fui occupations and fancies to busy lips
and fingers who are confirmed cigarette
| nends.
THE MANICURES TESTIMONY
The little roll OF tobacco. no bigger
than an oat straw, has given place to
what Is vastly more Injurious than the
biting Virginia weed men smoke. the
big opium tinctured oriental cigarette.
The gentle smokers allow themselves
six and eight of these a day, enjoying
| the soothing sensation they impart and
deeply inhaling every mouthful they
draw. The extent no which the habit
| has grown did not impress me until my
manicure mentioned how many of her
patrons once n week come to have the
Inside points of the thumb and index
fingers blenrhed from nicotine stains.
STRAIN ON THE NERVES
Now the worst phase OF the cigarette
a hi 10 tt,n Incl Il t,,i.,
not of so much injury to women's
lungs as It is to their nerves Tint is
an entirely different effect from that
| produced on the masculine system
Men don't feel the nervous shock be-
| cause they lead more active lives than
their sisters, but 1t was the calm ex-
PLANTATION of q little person found COL
| iapsed 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 pal
| III cheeks and over bright eyes set I'm
| ominously dark Kinks. Nevertheless
she insisted in spite Of her doctors ad-
| lnonitions that nerovus prostratiun In
| Its worst form might overtake her she
needed and would continue to delight
| IN the eXhilaration her cigarettes sup
piled.
ABUSING THE CUP THAT CHEERS
The desire for mental stimulus for
| excitement that prompts women into
these curious eNtravagancies and the
surest victims are those whose men
tally Is well above the ordinary.
Next after the cigarette habit the in
ordinate ten drinking INDUCED in is
| enough to make one shudder for the
/ nerves and digestive appliances OF the
| future generation. There really doesn't
| appear to be n more harmless taste and
Its all right enough until 1t grows into
a dissipation. Then 1t Is far more in
sidious than regular beer drinking and
\ as untimely destructive as whiskey
Any physician will agree that be-
| tween tea and coffee the former con
| tains the most deleterious elements but
| no woman ever stops to consider the
| the results that must arrive from pour
ing six cups of this deadly stringent
In one afternoon down that most SEN
sitire piece of human mechanism, the
| alimeBtary canal. She takes six Guns
incidentally on her calling rounds and
ut her breakfast and luncheon helps
herself to more of so powerful a bev-
| erage.
These genuine hard drinkers require
their ten Stronged and more frequently
as time goes on, On the brain ten has
an effect that is inspiring. 1t soothes
ana relaNeS tle muscles, but withcrs
the digestive organs. From tea drink
ing to tea eating Is step too frequent
~ made now among women to excite
surprise. liandsfuls OF dry leaves are
nuncnpd with as much relish as though
they were sailed almonds and with an
effect OH the complexion and liver VERY
| like that of morphine.
RAW CEREALS,
Whether the last generation of moth
ers left legacy all around of pecuIior
ly weak nervous systems TO their
daughters, or whether the complicated
questions of the hour are too distract
ing to the female mind cant saw. bni
moderation in tastes seem to be disrp
garded. Haven't you noticed the nun
Ders OF women who keep their little bon
bonieres fun of soda mint tablets or
potash pellets, enjoying them as though
they We're bonbons?
Not very long ago. I'm Paris the fash
! ion for pallid cheeks induced n few ab.
surd creatures to eat raw barely wheat
oats in hopes of an unwholesomc
flesh coloring. Ever so many otherwis..
sane American women have tried II and
from trial have fallen into the shock
ing habft OF eating CuDfuls of these raw
cereals. huskS and all. that hitherto wp
tl3 qcht only ponderous mill stones
could cope with.
THE USE OF PERFUMES.
OF course all the results OF these fam
tastic notions are easy to see for at in
terVals ana never more surely than tbis
winter has nervous prostra ton threat
eneo TO become epidemic in the feminine
| ranks. 1t is partly the fashion and
partly q revelation of the actual truth
for eight or more women to gather M
any time around a luncheon table ana
complain that they are Just I'M from
beds OF discomfort and diyans Of nv.
hauStiOn. There Is a. remedy for 4bie