New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06

women who have achieved fame I'm diplomacy
such as Princess Pauline Metternich. Princess
Lise Troubetskoi. the late Princess Leopold Croy,
Nine. de Novikoff. etc. have ali been inveterate
consumers OF cigarettes. and each OF those just
mentioned has awaited herself with signal ad-
vantage OF the opportunity afforded by toying
with fragrant pspietto to reflect before
speaking. which women. as a rule alas so sell
dom do Apparently II Is with the hope Of en-
couraging women who are not Ike Mime. de
Novikon and Princess I.ise Troubetskoi. pro-
fessed diplomats. to think before speaking. and
thereby avert a goodly portion or the trouble
which befals man. that several OF the govern
ments OF Continental Europe are encouraging
the use OF tobacco among the fair sex by pro-
viding smoking apartments for women on all
the state railroads. And we even find that sol
emn and august functlonary. the Speaker OF the
British House OF Commons. the living embodi-
ment OF all that Is most time honored. old fash
toned and ultra respectable in English Parlia-
ment. turning deaf ear 10 the protest raised OF
late years I'm certain OF the London newspapers
against the frequent spectacle offered on
summer nights OF women In full evening dress
sitting out the riverside terrace OF the palace
OF Westminster putting away at their post
prandial cigarette. THE First Commoner of the
Realm is. like his predecessor. Lord Peel. appar-
emily of the opinion that the weed first dedi-
Gated to Englands Virgin Queen" is Infinite
ly effective and less injurious TO high
strung feminine nerves than choral, morphine or
alcohol The easiest tempered and most tracta-
BILE women Of the universe are those OF the
Orient, who smoke all day long. and the same
may be said OF the women OF Southern Europe.
with the exception OF the present Czarina OF
Russia. Queen Alexandra and the Queen of the
Netherlands nearly all the women of the reign
ing houses Of the Old World smoke. The court
Of Denmark, especially during the lifetime OF
the late Queen Louise has always been one of
the most strict on the score OF etiquette and pro-
priety Yet most OF the royal and imperial ladies
who assemble there each summer at Fredens-
borg smoke. not only within the precincts Of
the palace, but even in public. as for instance
one evening at a dinner in the colonnade Of the
Tivoli Restaurant at Copenhagen. In Austria
Archduchess Mathilde met with her death
through her muslin dress catching fire at Schoen-
brunn from her cigarette. While in England the
Kings daughter. Princess Charles OF Denmark.
and HIS sister, the Duchess of Argyll, make no
pretence OF concealing their fondness for cigar
cites.
one of the objections which has been raised
TO women smoking is that, were the habit to
become general, 1T would not be confined TO
ladies'" AS one critic has IT, "the dainty little
cigarette with which Lady Judith Gains her
aristocratic nerves would find its counterpart in
the brierwood pipe of Betty. the parlor maid,
and I'm the Guilty OF old Judy. the cook" But
surely the advantages OF calming the chamber
maid and of soothing the VIGOROUSLY irritable
tenper of the cook by means even OF pipes are
quite as obvious the necessity Of quieting by
restlessness and the needless talk OF their mis-
tress. EA-ATTACHE.