Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-07
WOMEN WHO SMOKE.
rnE JpLER HAS An ANIMATED DIS
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THg POSITION OF QUEEN VICTORIA.
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ycster&y when the CqpWander-h-
Chief made her scpi hot'fiy made against
tho evils of tobacco and the reprehensi-
bleness OF men who use IT. onueNleu
gleesomely. Not that st sratihed me 10
hear her abusing tobacco, for II y brealn
10 my nostrIls, so 20 speak. but because
thought l had caught her in trap.
No,hsns tiokles me so much as an lopp0r-
s,,nity TO trip her up, though I'm frank
70 confess that / don't often get uckled
by this particular kind of pleasure
So. The more she protested against the
Weed the more smoke / pulled from ny
pipe. and the more ashes ! knocked Out
on the carpet. Indeed. 1 looked almost
ike Volcano in eruption when remark
ed 10 her: ''well. IL wimmen folks can
smoke. I don't see why men can't have
a chance at It, too. Seems to me WHAT'S
good enough for wimmen folks ought 70
be good enough for US earth worms VINO
sroycl in the dust before you.
..Winmen folks smoke,' she shrieked
On ere, .endo notes. which almost tore the
tin of our roof. why whoever heard OF
any decent female using tobacco? You
don't call nasty hussies' and oid-time
darkies and show girls, who KICK up 'heir
heels. respectable people, do you! VI
course. IL don't make any difference wlth
old Niger wimmen like Aunt Della, who
nuffs her corncob. but then Aunt Della
never had chance to know any betier'
II she'd had any opportunities she'd nave
been heap nicer lady than you are
gentleman"
told her I Wasn't referring to colored
people. or lady contortionisis," or show
people. or anybody Of that sort, but 20
prominent females in Europe.
Then YOU must be abiding to that nasty
TriIby O'Ferrall that l read about or to
some of those Monte Cristo (she meant
Monte Carlo girls, or TO those awful
women in Paris-certainiy you cant show
me where any respectable ladies ever
smoked,
told her with pride and triumph that
was alluding TO one of Queen victoria
daughiers-a most genteel lauH' VIM
moved in good English society-anu inat
a had been openly demonstrated that the
old lady sanctioned 1t.
Now. the COmmander-ln-Cmell Is i"piu
rovalist and always speaks III the inos'
familiar terms OF the queen. one III
variably calls her Victoria, just as II they
had been schoolmates, ana taxes 'ne
creates, interest in her family. She knows
the age Of all the royal children
and frequently remarks. when discussing
infantile complaints that the 'Prnce OF
Wales was one of the most croupy babies
that she ever heard of.
Years ago. when one of the queens
children had a bad cold it was with the
greatest difficulty that l restrained the
COMMUNICATIVE Chief from sending the
Oueen a popular recipe for whooplns
cough. Under these circumstance II was
hut natural that she should become IN
dignant when ! yentured the statement
that her Majesty allowed her daughters
10 smoke.
II wouldn't believe you to save your
life" she snortod. "Nictoria would sooner
die than countenance such habit; why,
the idea of such a thing. She's one OF
the best women ever knew; any woman
who mas raised all the children she's had
IS bound TO be good. Don't you dare TO
even suggest such a thing again-do you
hear me? Don't you dare to even
think it,
IL amt daring 10 suggest 1t or even to
think it," | replied, Pm simply reading
what | see in the newspapers Here Is
piece In the DAILY scum which tells the
whole dreadful tale"
Its a story some Of those horrid re-
porters have been telling" she shrieked.
s'They never DO get anything right. When
they printed the account of our wedding
they got my grandfather's initials wrong"
II may be stated, incidentally, that the
Commander-in-Chief has an inherent
dread of reporters. She thinks they would
commit murder just TO get a chance to
write up the homicide.
"Heres the piece" l said, land it sounds
mighty true TO me"
She made out that she didn't care 10