The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-07
The Center Sex
Enjoy the
Weed.
WOMEN OF OUR
CITY WHO SMOKE
Little Circles in Local Society
Devoted to Afternoon
Smokers.

1t may be a revelation to many in
honolulu to learn to just what extent
My Lady Nicotine" reigns in Homo Ii
ulu Aside from the cigars and cigar
ties daily sent up in smoke by our
masculine population, there is per-
.entage, by no means small, of the con- Il
sumption of the soothing weed in va
-ious forms, set down to the gentler,
put no less versatile, sex.
Fair, fat wahines of forty summers,
and thereover, may be OBJ !
served enjoying the pleasures of the |
pipe every day; there are two or three |
faithful dvotees of long standing among !
the group of lei-women at the corner OF .
Hotel and Fort streets, and Kakaako,
Kewalo and the South Sea Island vii
lage furnish many interesting speci-
mems of the feminine smoker. Japanese
women may be seen every evening sit
ting in the doorways of their little
shops which abound on the residence
streets, putting away at cigarettes, and
Chinese women indulge their taste for
tobacco in the public streets also.
The natives and the Orientals, how
ever, have no monopoly on the pipe and
the cigarette. The screaming Sunday
supplements of the Mainland cities now
and then hold forth to the extent of
half-dozen columns, with large illus
trations in colors, under the interroga-
tive scarehead, DO Our Society Girls
Smoker" and the treatise on the sub
ject usually dismisses it in the affirma-
tive. citing many instances, and either
condoning the practice Or making pro-
test with a formidable array of opin-
ions by prominent ministers as to- the
propriety of the feminine indulgence in
the alluring weed. Honolulu, although
usually about seven days behind the
rest of the civilized earth in the matter
of the outside worlds happenings,
manages to keep we'll apace of the
times in other respects. and has made
it a point especially not to be more
than a week behind in this particular.
Not only do many of Honolulu's socie
| ty girls smoke, but smoking among the
city women extends beyond the limits
of the most exclusive sets and out
among the feminine population gener-
| ally.
There are doubtless MI who are
ready to discredit this statement, but
an investigation made with discretion
will reveal to them it's truth. 1t has
probably struck Honolulu as a fad, but
there is no mistake in the statement
that it has struck Honolulu. Inter
views with local cigar and cigarette
dealers are convincing.
| '.Now of oo,1rco tbic nav cear, like
telling" said Jimmie Dougherty, OF
the childlike and confiding tenor, who
presides at the counter of Lawrence
Brothers. on Fort street, "but you know
am not going to mention any names
The ladies do certainly smoke. VIVA
4 would they buy the cigarettes for, i
they didn't? They don't all come per
sonally and make their purchases. bu
when a little ragged newsboy come:
across the street from a carriage OF
the opposite side and asks for pack
iage of cigarettes, SOS they won't hur
his lungs, don't you know, and wants
!. the thirty or forty-cent quality, VIII.
it's pretty thin, and when the kid wink
the other eye, as sometimes happens
. and gives his head a backward nod to
wards the ladies in the carriages-well
tbs inference is plain. Some of on
, regular customers drive right up il
, front of the store and wait for som
one to come out and take the order, ant
the husbands and admirers of other
keep them supplied with the Turkisl
, dainties. The ladies nearly all smok
Turkish and Egyptian tobacco cigar
cites. and the same kind of tobacco
smoked in these little meerschaur
pipes"
Mr.. Dougherty displayed tiny an
daintily designed meerschaum. wit
chased gold mountings. These" sal
1 he, ARE a source of great pride to
r number of ladies; you know they ar
= uncolored. and the coloring is a tas
requiring u great deal of skill and ar
: They must be smoked very carefully
kept at just a certain heat. and polish
ed at the right time during the process
? of coloring. Well, some of the ladie
d take great pride in coloring their littl
8 pipes, and smoke away very ingenious
ly and with great care. The little pipe
: only hold three or four puffs of tobao
: co, but they are dainty and are quite
= fad. Cigarettes. however, are NOR
: generally smoked, and a number of la
= dies buy them bythe box, each of on
r customers having their own favorit
L brand. Just wait a moment and I wi
!. show you the 'after-dinner' cigarett
q they like"
A long brown box with a gilt seal wa
= opened. and an even row of COLDER
tipped Smokes three and a ha
inches in length. were displayed. 1t wa
explained that these are the prope
- thing to have served after little lunch
t icons. corresponding to the after-dinnt
g cigar. the length of the smoke" bein
adapted to the indulgence of feminir
chit-chat, it now being the thing to di
cuss the shortcomings of the absel
ones over the cigarette instead of ov.
the tea. 1t is also said, by those WI
- ought to know, that the long cigaret
is much in vogue in mixed dinner pa
. ties and at luncheons. the gentlemt
= being supplied with cigars. and a ciga
!. Iette, with a match, being placed best,
the plate of each feminine guest. tt
cigarette endures as long as the Gig