Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-04

Not very hvgicnic though, is it, he
was asked. ard he laughed geefuly.
What do women care about the ny
genic end of it, if what they want to
do is becoming" said he, with profound
truth
The women are powdering their hair
now for parties, some of them, he said;
and he expects that hair powdering will
be In full blast pretty soon Women don't
care for gray hair, but they like white
hair. he explained. tAnd | remembered
that whenever young women see an old
lady with snow-white hair they invari-
ably eSclaim: Isn't her hair Gear!'D The
idea seems to he that Il Young face i
made 10 look moro pluant and interest
ing undo! white hair: and they are
going to have that effect artificially. |
should think IL would boom the narEet
for dandruf cradicators. And dancing
men Will have to carry WhSk broDnlS
along with them when powdered hair
attainS Il wide vogue.
THE reversiun To antique customs is
becoming I; sort of fad with both
sexes. 1t is an odd thing to see Il mod
ern young man. done up to the mines iii
evening clothes, taking snuff. Yet that
is becoming Il quite usual spectacle in
New York. ! saw three o. four groups
of youngish chaps exchanging snufboxes
in the lobby of the New Theater the
other night. They took the snuff with
all OF the airs and sidelonS twists of the
head that are supposed to go with that
sort of nicotine indulgence, criticised one
another's snuff, examined one another's
snuffbo,:e%, and apparently were just as
much Interested as if they had been COM
parlng cigars or cigar cases.
The SnuIf-taklng LaDit among y0tlnSiSh
members OF the eildcd gang has been
growing for some time. II is based,
say the devoteeS OF the new-Oid habit,
upon a desire to quit the use of tobacco
in more insidiouS forms. They say that
by the use of snuff they are enabled
easily to knock off the habit of smoking
cigarettes; the pinch of snuff taken at
the Overwhelmingly moment removes
quite effectually the desire for the ciea-
rette, and thus spares their lungs. The
doctors. ii appears, indorse their switch
from tobacco IN smokable form to to-
bacco in snuff shape. The medical men
say that snuff-taking is far the least in
furious method of using tobacco, and
that 1T is about ten times less harmful
than cigarettes. 1t. may well be that
the young men who take snuff reg
ular thing really are actuated by mo-
tives concerning their health; yet one
can't lose sight of the fact that they
seem to be at least equally actuated by
motives of faddishness for It's some
what tremendously nifty thing to take
snuff.
Moreover. they thus give themselves an
opportunity to indulge in little phases of
Joy over their ancestry, for they can and
do produce noble old snuffboxes that were
used by their progenitors of the snuff
taking age. thus having something visible
to indicate their actual possession of four
or five generations of Zine. Meantime,
the dealers in antiques are having a
boom market in old and maybe-old snuff
boxes. and i'm time the snuff-takers will
be using Thurman bandannas and other
accouterments of the ancient habit For
all of which it is to be remembered chat
the taking Of snuff, to be tolerable IN the
view Of extremely finical people, r.lust be