The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-09

I the conventional baby pillow of the shops
! That is doll-like affair of down, covered
/ with linen cambric and edged with
/ lace, and is a very dangerous pillow "a
use, for two reasons First. the brain OF
/ an infant is very sensitive and liable to
/ congestion from oVer-eXcitement, indiges-
ton, or some slight cause, and the head
/ should be kept cool aud should not be
/ heated by down pillow; secondly, the
/ down used in the shops-unless the work is
/ made to order-is always Arctic down.
I This Is composed of the soft feathers strip
ped from the quilts of the German goose.
1 II is so penetrating that the fine particles
will force themselves through the seams
and the interstices in the muslin which is
! usually used to cover the pillow, or even
through bed ticking. These unwholesome
particles floating in the air are then liable
TO be breathed by the sleeping infant.
The best bed coverings for baby are
sheets Of cambria or linen in summer. and
soft blankets of pure California wool.
which are as warm and light as down and
much more wholesome, in winter, A silken
comfortable of down is allowable if the
mother can afford that silken-like down
which the eider-duck plucks from her
breast to line the nest which she builds
for her own ducklings in the Arctic SHOWS.
This soft, dun-colored down does not float
about, but chngs together, so that 1t Is
safe TO use il. The coverlet of the baby's
bed may be of any dainty hued wash silk.
This coverlet win protect the blankets as
well as a heavier Counterpart of cotton.
There is no use in making any bones
about it, Cigarette smoking is on the in
crease among the women of this city says
the New York Sun. American women
have been somewhat slow in taking up
the habit-which is rather to their credit
than otherwise. Those who use cigarettes
of hon sr, -.
foreign country The smokers are divided
into two classes-the bohemians who
smoke openly, and the women of wealth.
leisure and position. who indulge in a Sc
ductive puff in private In speaking or
the actual use of cigarettes by women, a
dealer who has occupied the same stand
on Broadway for twenty-five years said ::
Women smokers are undoubtedly in
creasing at very rapid rate. I've been
here over a score of years now, and when
L first set up / used TO be surprised when
woman came in and bought a package
Of cigarettes, it was such a rare thine.
Now every few minutes a woman or girl
drops in and buys a supply. In fact, to-
baceo dealers are catering for womens
trade as much as for mems. More so, be.
cause we have mems secured
Some people have an idea that one
should fight shy of a woman who smokes.
Such people are grossly ignorant. Some
of the best women in New York use cigar
cites. In fact, dealers divide women cI-
garette smokers into two classes-the
very, very good and the very, very bad,
the smokers of good social position and
the smokers of no position at all, the out
casts of society. Working women in
America do not smoke. A great many
Well-to-do women have their cigarettes
made to order, stamped with their mono-
grams and crests, and tipped with gold or
silver. These never give their orders per-
sonally, but do so through their husbands.
brothers or servants. And these women
do not smoke to excess. A hundred cigar
cites usually lasts them for ten days.
should say that they averaged about six
a day, and, as a mild Turkish tobacco
is used and the cigarettes are very small
that is really doing very little smoking
For my part, l think If women smoked
more we would hear of less indigestion
and dyspepsia among the sex, and If a
woman smokes at home among her
friends I can't see any objection what
ever. Tobacco, I'm sure aids digestion
If taken In moderation after heavy meal
American women will never smoke in pub
lie, think, and neither will they smoke
to excess. Where We used to have one
woman customer who smoked fine cigar
cites made especially for her, we now
have twenty, and the number is increas-
ing"
Another dealer, who has perhaps, the
most fashionable trade In the city was Of
the same opinion. He is a Greek and
was brought up in Turkey. He thinks
that at last American women are becom-
ing civilized enough, according to his view
of the matter, to use cigarettes, and says
SO in very quaint English.
"Oh, yes" he said american women
are learning how to smoke at last. 1t is
SO strange that you people who have so
much liberty in everything else would not
allow your women to smoke until now.
1t is good for them, that is if they smoke
cigarettes made of Turkish tobacco. If
your American tobacco has so per cent.
of nicotine In It, Turkish has only per
cent. In Turkey nearly every woman
smokes and they live to be very old, al
most a hundred To those who do not
smoke the doctors say, Smoke, it will do
you good and l think the American wo-
men are beginning to find that out In
foreign countries, where the women all
smoke Turkish tobacco, you never hear
of a man or woman dying or losing his
mind from cigarette smoking; but here
nearly every paper tells of one l think II
Is the smell of the American tobacco that
drives them mad. See," he went on,
opening a case and showing thousands
of cigarette papers done up in packages
OF from one to five hundred, these are
what kind OF cigarettes do most women
smoker" asked the reporter.
you see, they are thinner than those
for men," he answered, opening a box
bearing a monogram and crest "And wo-
men like very mild tobacco with lots OF
aroma. They are called Egyptian ciga-
rettes. but they are made OF Turkish to-
bacco. We make them stamped in gold and
with a gold tip for $3.50 a hundred But
all women cannot afford to have their
Cigarettes made to order. so they smoke
ordinary Egyptians 20 cents a package
Then lots OF women smoke American
cigarettes at an 10 cents package" he
added, with a shrug.
Jewellers say they know that the use
of cigarettes by women is rapidly increas-
ing, because there is such a demand for
cigarette cases FOR women. They are made
smaller and thinner than those for men
one firm reports that it sells, on an aevr-
age, twenty such cases a week
The cigarette smoking mania is spread.
ing rapidly in London among women
There, as here, for a long time II has been
confined 20 two classes-those in society
and those IN the demi-monde But now
the women Of the great middle class. ON
down To the flower girls In the street
are finding pleasure or solace. or what.
ever IL is. that women get out ~ "a tttt.