The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-06-29

~ please said charming girl
as she stepped up TO the
counter Of a cigar stand In one or the
popular department storcs-and Ehe
named n brand much liked by men. A
friend with her chose another brand
and two women following announced
their preference by mentioning tho
brand asked for by tho FIRST young
woman
"Do they smoke the same cigarettes
that men do?" was asked by the In
torested bystandor.
"Oh, yes, and they have no hest
fancy in asking for what they want.
A couple Of years ago girl would
come in and ask for cirgarottes for her
brother or possibly her father. Now
she walks in and asks for her own
brand and has so much company in
the doing OF 1t that she does not suf-
fer any embarrassment"
81 remember when we had only one
woman customer" the clerk said, "sho
was not the sort OF woman who ever
went about thing in an underhaDdcd
way and 30 she would come and ask
for cigarettes. quietly and indepcn-
IDENTIFY. as though 1t were the most nat
ural thing In the world.
After awhile some OF her friends
came in. and in short time she had
introduced the smoking OF cigarettes
among the women OF her circle. which
IS the most exclusive in the city. But
even then, smoking did not become 80
popular among women until the hotels
opened their doors to women cigarette
smokers and now II is quite the most
ordinary thing in the world to sell
cigarettes to women.
Mothers and daughters often coma
in together and they do not always
ask for the same cigarettes. either, the
mother usually choosing the mildcr
Cigarette Smoking Con.
fined to Society Dnrlings.
Strange as It may seem. the custom
OF smoking cigarettes is confined al
most exclusively to the petted dar-
lnrs OF society. Al one Of the we'd
dings in this set recently passersby
who were not initiated were surprised
to see young women at an upper win
dow, smoking cigarettes. and were in
cllned TO think II a very interesting
and unusuall thing.
An exclusive woman's club, one "
the leading society organizations in
the West. is wise enough TO have no
rules in regard to the conduct of its
members, Each woman is trusted 20
maintain the dignity OF the club and
preserve her own self-respoct and so
no mention In the way OF rules In re-
gard to cigarette smoking has ever
been made there. -
There Is no smoking room, but mem.
bors and their guests are privileged to
smoke in the dining room. II they
choose; In fact, they will suit their
own wishes In the matter
or course, there are women who'vjll
never, never smoke as long aH they
live. but others are inclined to do as
others do, and at any rate not TO criii-
else other women who smoke.
The small-town woman has not yet
overcome her proiudcos, and when a
number OF women from all over the
country came to meeting recently
in one OF the large cities and disco'-
cred their chairman smoking cigar
cites as nonchalantly as II there had
never been a question about a wom-
ans right to do such things some OF
them were surprised and possibly a
little scandalizcd.
Young Man and
Sweetheart Smoke Together,
shall we smoker"
Tho young man held out his Gig.
arctic case; the dainty girl at his side
chose cigarette, he lighted a match
and held It while she pufted at the to-
bacco-arcd cylinder, and then Dc ap.
Piled the same match 10 his own Gig
arctic The girl. with her clFarctt
between two fingers, looked for a
comfortable seat. and presently hc SAT
down opposite her
I'm here, chIldreR' said a voice
from the other spdo Of the inclosed
porch.
Dad" cried the girl come out
here
The young man had arisen and be-.
gan 10 haul up n chair.