Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-30

friends memory, he placed, as ne eS-
pressed Il, the shield of his imperial Of
flee over the Krupp household. At the fu-
neral he delivered euloGy of krupp
in which he vigorously and passonately
defended the "assaied honor of the de-
ceased, and then followed the hearse to
the grave on foot. thus making the En-
pire, in a sense, the chief mourner. 1t
is acts of this sort that explain why the
German people are so loyal to William
and so devotedly attached to him, de-
spite his arbitrary ideas.
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THE SMOKER AND THE SMOKED.
The newspape report that Mrs. Rus
sell Sage has Withdrawn from the May
flower Society because the men members
will persist in smoking at the annual
meetings.
For pursuing that course she has been
subjected to some criticism, but we are
not prepared to endorse the position OF
her critics. The odor of burning to.-cco
may sicken her, as it does others. II
so, ought she to attend the meetings, or
not? Not" say we. Perhaps her resgna-
ton may be effective In reminding the
gentlemen Mayilowerers that they should
not smoke IN the presence of ladies, whose
taste, or distaste. for tobacco they do not
and cannot know.
The difficulty cannot be met by their
asking the ladies If they object to smok-
ing''--to others smoking-because it is eS-
pected that the dear ones will give their
consent as matter of course. If one
were to object when asked that question.
she would bring down upon herself very
undesirable attention. Mrs. Sage has
solved the difficulty in the case of the
Mayfower Society by Withdrawing from
that organiza ton. How she manages her
old man we don't know; but perhaps he
is not a smoker: may be he thinks he
can't afford it.
There is no doubt many womens lives
are made burdensome because they have
10 live in an atmosphere of tobacco smoke
In this matter we men folks are not
always as considerable as we ought to be-
Many a poor woman has suffered torture
almost. at the hands-and mouths-of
smoking husbands. These women, we
dare say. constitute a minority of the
sex; the majority. being daughters OF
smoking fathers have been brought up
on and saturated with tobacco smoke, so
to speak, and their lot IS happier than
that of girls who have lived always IN
homes in which the use of tobacco is
forbidden. The girl reared IN such pure
air household has much to suffer when
she goes forth into the world, especially
when she uarries some great, huiking
fellow, who keeps cigar-or worse, still
pipe, in his mouth much of the time.
But as for the majority OF women, there
is proof that they really do not OBJECT
to mems smoking. Evidence of this is
furnished in the fact that women throng
the offices and writing rooms of hotels
where men gathsr to read, write, gossip
and smoke; that, too, though there are
parlors and reading rooms especially SCI
apart for them. At Old Point, at the
Hygeia Hotel-now demoiished-the of
fice'' was nearly always thronged and
the parlors nearly always deserted.
We smokers may find some comfort in
that information. as proving that ---e
greater number Of women do not suffer
from tobacco smoke; that of cigars. at
least. But there are others" Mrs Sage
is one of them. In Richmond we have
not few of this class. notwithstanding
the fact that this is a great tobacco town
and that it has been charged that our
girls smoke cigarettes. The Dispatch has
never seen any of them smoking cigar
cites and wy have made searching in
quries with the result that we are con-
vinced no such custom" prevails here.
Far from it.
But, dear reader, do you know that III
tho good old times" in many parts OF
the then United States of America. In the
spacious corner near the big open ire
places, always assigned to the use OF the
aged persons of the household. oftentlmes
the grandmother would be found smols-
ing her pipe? Yes; 1t is fact.
That practice has gone out. 1t disap-
peared with the big, open fre-places. and
may be because Of that revolution In our
domestic habits. The survivals of it
the smoking-are few and far between.
Nor is it likely that the cigarette VIII
come into vogue with our girls. as it has
done with the Spanish-Amecican women.
The habit carries with it an odor about
the hands and mouth which, according to
American taste, would discount the
beauty of tho divinest of girls. And that
they know! But enough of this. Our
pipes gone out; the source of our inspira-
ton has failed. The pipe dream is. over.
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