The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-05
USE or SNUFF INCREASING.
sale OF Fancy Boxes to Women Indicates
tho Reign of New Fad.

tho Reign of Il New Fad.
Fads are curious things" said a
well-known jeweler to a Sun reporter.
FOR the last two years 1t has been
cigarette holders lamps, cases and all
the necessaries for the smoking room
or corner. Some of these trappings run
as high as $3.50 for a cigarette holder
| for popular actress. This year the
fad has switched right around to SNUFF.
| Early in the season we began to have
demands for handsome snuff boxes and
| we utilized a number of bonbonniere
| boxes, but the demand became so
strong that in a short time we were
rushed, turning out new designs, and
those copied from old masters, all in
! miniature, and mainly for hanging on
the chatelaine. Some of these cost $3.50
and had fine American enamel work on
them, typical of golf. bowling, hunting,
| etc. These were sold by the score.
| What the purchasers did with them I
do not know, but they were snuff boxes
| pure and simple, although the purchas-
ers asked for chatelaine boxes and
everything but snuff boxes
| Visiting store where large trade
! is done in cigarette specialties for
women, the reporter asked if much
snuff was being bought by women, and
the answer was:
Yes, very great deal, and the
habit is of recent date. 1t appears to
nave been brought about by the num-
! Der OF influenza cases during the last
spring and fall. We have many women
customers, and as you see, there are
Jars OF snuff, Jars of sachet, jars of
cigarette tobaccos and cigarettes, all
displayed on the counter. Women
came in, smelled of each and asked
about the snuff, generally declaring
they would sneeZe their heads off if
they tried it, but eventually buying a
a fri
This Joke turned out in several cases
to be the substituting of this snuff for
some innocuous chemical snuff carried
by some. Our snuff is mainly made in
America although we have imported
snuffs ranging as high as $50 per pound.
Oh, that is not expensive when snuffs
are compared There are two firms IN
Lisbon, Portugal, to-day which charge
5000 a pound for every pound of snuff
they send out. The bulk of it goes to
China for the mandarins, and the house
has been supplying those people for the
last 200 yeats. That snuff is 10 years
old. Most Of our American snuff is two
years old before it reaches the con-
sumner, and some of the snuff made by
that Portuguese firm is more than 100
years old.
I'VE sell American snuffs as high as
dollar pound, but we prepare them
ourselves from the, regular product, es-
trade secret about it. We take a GER
tain proportion Of very fine unscented
snuff made in New Jersey by one of
the Oldest houses, blend it with non
irritating vehicle and add certain
combination. of chypfe, white rose,
ylang ylangi and musk, which is very
difficult to fmitate unless the exact pro-
portions are known, This is further
disguised by putting. it into earthen-
ware jars, sealing tigiit and baking in
a hot oven for a certain time, then al
lowing to c6b1 fbr several days, open
ing and repoWdering. plThis produces a
delicious perfume, which. while scarce
ly a snuff, as is generally understood.
titillates slightly the delicate organs of
the nose. leaving nothing but agreeable
surroundings and no smell of snuff.
Most Of this business is transacted by
mail or by maid. Few women buy it
direct themselves as yet.
although one sees comparatively
few individuals taking snuff these days,
there is a steady increase in production,
and the last years total production, ac-
cording to the government figures,
showed a total of 15,224,135 pounds. or
an increase of 1,956,496 pounds over the
preceding year, and of this Increase
1,120,655 pounds appears in the record
of New Jersey, and this, notwithstand-
ing the combining of the Pennsylvania
and Southern firms with a capitaliza-
ton of $15.OoO,OOO. American snnffs
have long been used among certain
women, but principally for chewing pur-
poses, but now we may expect to see
regular snuffing come into vogue"
A well-known physician said: There
is little doubt as to the fact that women
are taking more snuff ] frequently
find traces of it in the nostrils. 1t is
probably due to the grip as much as
anything, To allay the excessive irri-
tation of the membrane, and especially
the disagreeable choriza, all kinds of
powders have been prescribed, medical
snuffs I suppose one may call them,
given with the view of allaying inflam-
nation. There is absolutely no harm
in snuffing if the substances are all as
innocuous as pure tobacco: the delicate
nerves are slightly hardened, the
sternutatory spasms called sneezing
disappear, but that is all. A clever
woman can handle her snuff box in
finitely more takinglv than she can a
cigarette New York Sun.
A Sensation.