Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1900 — Smoking in Japan. [ARTICLE]

Smoking in Japan.

Smoking Is so common In Japan that nil men and most women smoke, the girls 1 loginning when they are nbout 10 years of age. The women have pipes with longer stems than the men, and, If one of them wishes to show a gentleman a special mark of favor, she lights her pipe, takes a whiff, hands it to him and lets him smoke.