The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-19
ROYALTY AND CIGARETTES.
EUROPEAN QUEENS WHO SMOKE AS
a NATTER OF COURSE.

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a MATTER OF COURSE.
Their Majesties of England, Russia,
Germany, HOllund, SaxOny and
Sweden, Are SternIy Opposed to
the Use of Tobacco by WOmen-The
Princess of wales OmciaIIy Sane
toned Cigarettes at Sandrfngham
by Offering Them at "A WOman's
Dinner, and Princess Louise Makes
No Secret of Her Devotion to the
Soothing Weed.
Washington. Aug. 17.-Her Majesty, the
Queen of England, has an intense horror
Of smoking, for men quite as much as
for women. The weed is prohibited at
Windsor Castle and at Balmoral The
lady has been known 10 cause her secre-
tary to address letters to various cabinet
ministers complaining of the aroma of
tobacco with which official documents
submitted for her signature were impreg-
mated
Her august son. the Prince of Wales
pays her but few visits on this account
He is an inveterate smoker, and is sell
dom without a cigar between his lips The
one reason why he leases a mansion every
summer at Ascot for the race week at an
expense of $4,000, merely for the few days.
is because Her Majesty declines to loan
MIN her castle for the time, unless he
promises that there shall be no smoking
on the part of himself, his friends. or his
attendants
Of the Queens daughters. only the
Princess Louise smokes regularly. but the
Princess of Wales and the Princess Maud
OF Denmark, are accustomed TO indulge
In an occasional cigarette.
II was IN 1882. that cigarette smoking,
among ladies received official sanction
the Princess of Wales put them on the
table or had them passed with the cof-
fee, al a dinner given to women only.
Queens and Their Tobacco.
Eleven Queens use tobacco. The Dow
ager Empress of Russia, Queen Olga of
Greece, Queen Olga of Wurtemberg. che
Queens of Hungary and Belgium, the
queen Regent of Spain. Queen Amelie of
Portugal, Queen Marguerite of Italy. Car
men Sylvia, the Roumanian Queen, Queen
Natalie of Servia and the Queen of
Egypt. The late Empress of Austria used
to smoke thirty cigarettes a day. The
Queen Of Italy is said 20 have declared
That her cigarette is more essential 20 her
comfort than anything else in life. she
always smokes in solitude The Queen
OF Spain, when at work, is seldom with
cut an Egyptian cigarette between her
hps or in box close at hand. II is
the special privilege of "Bubi' young
Alphonso KID to light the cigarettes for
MS mamma. When the little King be-
comes old enough to reign over a nation.
ne will have no Havana" The Dowa-
ger Empress of Russia only smokes in
her boudoir. Queen Natalie is devoted
to the weed. The Queen of Roumania
carries little golden box filled with Gig
arettes. The Queen of Portugal gets her
cigarettes from Dresden; her mother. the
Comtesse de Paris is addicted to mild
Havanas of delicious flavor, and she is a
source Of considerable fortune to her
dealer in smoking outfits. as she uses
only those which are most rare and
costly.
Queen Olga of Greece, who is a Rus
sian Grand Duchess, and Queen Olga of
Wurtemburg, also Russian, are mem
bers Of royalty who burn cigarettes II
is quite matter of course in Russia that
ladies' smoke. The members of the court
however, have been requested by the
Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, not to
smoke in her presence request which
is equal TO a command. Her Majesty
also objects to seeing men smoke. and
the Gar, since his marriage. is not near
~ so devoted to his wel-known meer-
schaum pipe so familiar to all the Rus
sian court. The Czarina inherits her alb
florence of tabocco from her mother, the
Princess Alice. Other royal ladies' addict
ed 10 the weed are the Queen of Hungary
and Henrietta of Belgium
A Royal Pipe.
The Queer of Egypt-or the wife Of the
Khedve-smokes a narghile water-pipe
which is more picturesque than a prosaic
cigarette. She has a narghile of great
magniicence. TIE bowl is of engraved
rock crystal, mounted in chased gold
fashioned in the form of lotus flower
The tube is nceaed by a deftly wrought
network of pink ST k ana go d thread
while the amber h-piece and gold
plateau are one mass of sparkling Jewels
1t is in the Orient indeed that smok-
ing has developed into a fine art. The
ladi of the Zenana are restricted to gos-
sip coffee and tobacco, and nowhere else
are these thirgs brought to such a stan
dard of perfection In the Turkish harem
the women inhale the fumes OF yellow
"Jtnidjie" or "Kirilschillar." ard nib
BILE "rahat-lakoum" or bonbons.
An offset to the eleven august ladies'
occur ants of thrones. who smoke, are
the eight majesUes who do not; the
Queen Of England the Czarina, the EN-
pr SIS and Dowager Empress of Germany
the Queen of Saxcny, the Queen of Swed-
en-, Queen Wilhemina and the Dowager
Queen Emma of Holland.
Less August Smokers.
OF grand ladies', of more or less exalted
position, who are in the census of smok-
ers, there are the imperial archduchesses
Of Austria, who smoke to their h arts
content and in the most public manner;
the Pr ncess of Bavaria. many of the
great ladies' of France, as the Duchess
dAges and the Duchess de Maille; the
fashion of smoking was set in France by
tie Fmpr IS Eugene, more than a quar-
ter of a century ago. The Empress, like
all SpaLiards was always happiest when
putting clouds of fragrant smoke. During
the Napoleonic regime, there was scarce
ly corner of the Tuilleres, St. Cloud or
Compiegne, which was not redolent with
fumes of tobacco
The Infanta Eulalie smokes as those
who had the pleasure of meeting her
when she was in this country can tes-
ufy. or exquisite little Spanish cga-
rettes she mad q supply, and what they
lacked in size they made up in strength.
Her smoking outft was dainty TO a de
gree--a lovely gold box with grotesque
carvings, set with diamonds and rubies to
hold the cigarette, tray with dainty pat