The Universal Appeal of My Lady Nicotine: Its Lure from Earliest Times and the Prohil tions In spite of the fact that women fayette from one hand and cat since time imiaemorial tot the world is indifferent, as to whether they do or do not, lay still have ity complex and accom-smoke with unnecessary bravado, They have not yet learned to smoke like men, Tu 1492 a party sent out by Columbus from the vessels of his. first expedition to explore the islands of Cuba came back with the informa tion that on the island were men and Women carrying lighted firebrands late-nut-fudge-eream-sundae the other is more than any man can understand.—Sweet peppermint wafers {for that bedtime snack have become hardened to the absurd mixture of pink satin bows on candy boxes, lace <Topleys, and a bar-cwm atmosphere man over smoked in an American railway dining car until the past two year, He did all smoking in the compartment Seoviaed Set Soak peeped oad cognized the rights of the old, the young, and the ill of the travelling public to eat in the closely confined space of a dining car without the audition of tobacco smoke. Not so They find it necessary to prosiaim their ab pation, At I save up trying to explain to the yentlomen why they couldn't smoke na in the waiting rooms oad stations are utterly" disregarded by the female of the lo the male obediently' 5 his pipe out to the baggage nil the significant dovelay. in London is that on the underground the slogan "Smoking" has disappeared and there are just on for two eavriages on each train mark-and woartyy ud van "inveterate who" 88 years old, strom Cornelia, Weatherford of in their mouths. Smoking among women is not a new custom. No one knows how long the wonien of Cuba were addicted to the weed be fore Columfous came along and made the practice popular in Europe. Smoking among Indy American Indians was a universal and_immemorial usage long before the Pilgrim fathers held up their hands in holy horror at the idea. In many cases passed around and women auk No Smoking."
n_the shops and department} stores, formerly chaste and rivutral backgrounds for the shopper now been pervaded with a thi haze issuing from lovely lips.
was the little millinery shops in smart side streets which began putting ash trays on the table in front of the mirror. Then came the "boot~ cries," which offered grandma mat~ ches on a wonderfully balanced ash receiver when she came in to buy a pair of felt bedroom slippers. Now the ladies smoke all. over! was bound up with the most signi ficant and solemn tribal evremonies 'The Spanish word, "eigarro" is al! derivation of "ecigatval"—a word of Arabic origin meaning a pleasure: garden, and if you don't believe that feminine Arabia, Turkey, and Hungary, enjoyed their exotic and senusous' fags tale a lock at the veiled number 0 harem on women in Burma not have, smoked cheroots from time immemorial hat have made them, rolling them against their burnished thighs to give them loss, And while they smoke, even toxcay, their five hus! bands apiece patiently till the folds: for them. chroot was first! manufactured Phi Manila and thet out curlinis their trap around the product, Some women fave had to their right to smoke. During the With century when the indulgence in tobacco spread with marvellous} rapidity throughout all nations the had to do it in the face of the The: Peace-pipe of Tribal Core. many haw given way to the modern enjoys her smoke. most resolute opposition of statesmen and priests, penal ers cements of the most severe description, the knout, excommunication, even capital Punishment. Nevertheless the old ladies of Ireland and England pi smoked their pipes then, as the do now. The female mountaineers, the chop-gid wa wary eve on che dani the aby dopartme of all—in the wentleof Kentucky, Virginia, Godexia, Tone nesseo, and the Carolinas, as their men folks, have aly! smoked their corn cobs and doxened tot them, tried sears ago rested, ed if any men! frame stunt afew would have. been thas eeome next impossible that ske te of the fact chiffon evening frock oF cept. from. the! is 98 yours old and a firm ~But.the fact matter of hrs spite its commonnes i3 obvious in many restaurants in Amoriva end perhaps in She thing that corta they enter ix to pull out a chzarette and pulf right through the soup. the fish, the entree, the roast, the salad, and the sweet, in a way to horrify th epicure and astonish the masculine contingent which enjoys its food, How a girl can smoke a puffing 2 parchesine yards of tulle; the hae nei been tay to smoke Hiko a gentleman.
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