The evening times., 1898-03-01
MANY ROYHL
WOMEN SMOKE
Dainty Lips May Press the
Perfumed Cigarette.
The Sex Runs More Risk From
Evening Dresses Than From ruff
ing Tobacco, Some Think.

1T is al a question of habit, said a
medical friend To me on the question o.
smoking. a London letter writer remarks.
Women may do much worse than smoke
cigarettes; indeed. they do many "a far
more pernicious thing" he said They
go out half-clad. Perhaps that is the
most indelicate Of their habits. Evening
dress as il is called, is responsible for
more deaths than the seVerest epidemic
As Tor smoking. a mild cigarette upon
some temperaments has a soothing in
luence that is valuable. ON others it is
eNhilarating No two people are alike;
and every individual iS the best judge OF
what is good for him or her."
II WAS during a club chat on a famous
Americans defense Of the cigarette
when a continental mentioned the fact
that many iliuStrious and royal women
smoke The Empress Of Austria. for
example he said: ''the DoNager Tsa-
rita. the Queen Poetess of Roumania.
the Queen Regent Of Spain Amelia OF
Portugal. and queen Marshcrita OF TIA
ly. they all smoke, mostly IN their own
private apartments; as you know, in
Russia the ladies retire to smoke just as
the men do in England. Ii is a habit
that wounds English prejudice, aud one
does not care to sec IL spread among US,
but il is not one of the deadly sins, any
more than going To see great poems in
terprctcd al the theater Is crime against
high morality.
Having several dear friends to whom
"A cigarette seems To be one OF the chief
pcJsurss of life and aid to work. | re-
iuice To note that before the Medico-Bc-
gal Society Of New York two professors
have been standing Up for the cigarette.
! have in ANY eye painter VINO rolls
his ~-ccd and lights il between those
pauscS of contemplation when the art
isl stands back 40 judge OF the effect Of
his work. and il IS pleasure TO see him
blow q cloud toward his canvas and wave
it of With his hand as he makes a smoke
ring aud watches IL dispeTse before he
takes up his brush afresh
The Snauiarls hakV generally the cred
il of originating the cigarette; but the
truth is IA. don got his first Whit of the
cigarejtcwhen he invaded Mexico under
CoTteZ; and the Aztccs taughI the Span
iards how TO roll The little package OF to-
bacco into Smokablc shape.
So much has been said against cigar
cite smoking that smokers viii be glad
To have At least one libel swept away.
Professor Willis G. Tucker is the State
board Of heal,h analyst Of Albany. He
says cigarettes as a rule are made Of
good tobacco. Sensational statements
tha, they are prepared from The filthiest
tobacco aud diriieSt refuse are not wor-
thy of crelcuce and can easily be refut-
ed" The chief chemist of the United
States department says i'm all the samples
purchased IN the op-n market he failed
To lind any trace OF arsenic or opium or
any If their active principles. and DIR.
Never Dutch. on inhaling. SAYS the
smoke rarely passes beyond the bronchi.
very Httle ever entering the air vessels"
10 is not necessary to inhale; but il il
good az know that 10 30 SO is not ncces-
sarily To clog the lungs and invite as
phvNia. or course there Is tobacco and
tobacco. and one can understand Georges
diplomatic s'tbUely when sNeetly rebuk-
ed by his young wife for not having
smoked amy OF the cigars she bought him
aS "a birthday present No, dear, | could
not lind il i'm my heart to burn anything
You had given me. 7 have visited more
thaH one great tobacco factory and seen
the process OF cigar and cigarette man
ufBctUre ana have found il ideal as it
iS described in Marion Crawford's "A
Cigarette Makers Romance"