Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1914 — The Lady Who Smokes. [ARTICLE]

The Lady Who Smokes.

One of the social matters as to which English and American women differ is that the cigarette tn public in the mouth of one of the gentler sex is still classed under the head of “fastness” both in Canada and the United States, whereas English ladles smoke tn restaurants and railway trains and other public places, and neither they nor the men think it. anything out of the way. Five years ago. however, before our English lady in a restaurant after dinner smoked s ckirttte, she probably asked the men of the. party if they

thought there was any harm in her doing so, whereas now a lady’s cigarette case is opened as soon as the coffee comes round, and she thinks it unnecessary to make the apologetic remark. In New York, the lady’s cigarette in public is still “taboo” In many of the restaurants; but the custom is beginning to make way in America. Whether husbands and fiances find smoky little mouths as pleasant to kiss as lips that are not smoke-dried is their own business.