The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-05
WOMEN FOND
 OF SMOKING
CUSTOM UNIVERSAL AMONG UPPER
 GLASS OF ALL NATTONALITTEs.
Would be surprised # not Offered . Cigarette After Dinner--AmeTican Women Who Travel Often Be-
 come Addicted to Habit.

Chicago Chronicle.
 Mrs Hugh Fraser the authoress. sis. ter of Marion Crawford, and niece of
 Julia Ward Howe, who lately sailed for Japan, in a talk of her life abroad, told of the universality of the custom of smoking among upper-class women of ali nationalities. i
 Strange as 1t may seem. though" she said, "among the Japanese women l have never seen one of the nobility smoke. No Japanese woman of nobility in fact, has ever admitted to me that she smoked presume that they do
 in their own homes. They may not have spoken of 1t, feeling that Vest
 ern woman would object and 1t would not be courteous to do so.
 While the upper class women are not
 seen smoking, the middle ant lower class women smoke constantly. On long railway journeys you will see them always smoking. They smoke the three
 whiffs of tobacco that the little pipe contains and then HI and light 1t again. They have told me that they smoke in this way because it is the first whiff of the tobacco that is agreeable For my
 part, think their tobacco is very bad. believe it is homegrown and 1t is not at all agreeable.
 My little Japanese. maids always smoked, though never in my presence. They used to sit on their steps and smoke but that was In their own quar- ters. once raised the wages of my personal maid and the first thing she did was to en gage a maid for herself, and the duties of this little girl were chiefly to prepare her tea and make ready her pipe.
 Al upper class women abroad smoke English. French. Germans, Italians and Russians. In many circles in Eng land it is expected that cigarettes shall be passed to women after dinner. and they had a peculiar rule there about smoking in public. At after theatre suppers one always smokes.
 All Russian women smoke, and smoke q great deal. and presume that 1t Is through them to a great extent that the women of other countries have taken up the practice. They have an excellent tobacco that they use and which is diff ficult to find though 1t is to he had in London in some of the Russian shops.
 Turkish women. of course. smoke constantly. and then use a very good tobacco. French women I know less about than those of other nationalities, and they vary. some using tobacco and others obtectlng to 1t. Germans smoke also the Italians. A woman of the up- per class, Roman, would be surprised not to be offered a cigarette after din- ner
 But in speaking of smoking. the wo- men who smoke most of all are the Austrian women. They smoke cigars. l shall never forget a dinner that was given to the Prince of Wales by the British embassy in Vienna. Sir Henry Elliott was the ambassador and my husband was secretary to the embassy. The guests for this dinner had been se- lected with great care they were dis tinguished people, and all the most beautiful women had been brought to- gether. The Viennese women are charming and they wear exquisite gowns. The dinner passed On as 1t should and at it's close Sir Henry rose to conduct the Prince to the smoking room. when to our surprise every wo- man at that table rose and trouped af- ter them. Those beautiful women In their comeIy low out gowns covered ! with diamonds disappeared into the smoking room to finish their dinners | with cigars.
 Lady Elliott and I said that there | was nothing for us to do but to sit l down and have a friendly little chat to- gether. for we could not possibly stand the smoke in that room
 T have seen fine old white haired ia- | dies in Vienna sitting tired out in a | ball room. waiting to take home the | they were chaperoning, each l with A great cigar in her mouth.
 "An Austrian woman Is never expect 1 ed to smoke until she Is married. | though 1 suppose the young girls do 1t In their own apartments. There was one little Austrian duchess, whose name | have forgotten, who was burned to death while attempting to hide ciga- rette in the pocket of little frock when , her governess came unexpectedly into the room when she was smoking,
 Tn America have found that women who have travelled often smoke ana | otherwise there has been very little oo- lection. and no one minds if I open Tsy | cIaarette case after dinner where they l are not accustomed to using them. The | most rigid objections I have found m | Maryland and Virginia. There people | are mortified by the custom