Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1901 — Women Who Smoke. [ARTICLE]

Women Who Smoke.

A venerable woman calmly puffing away at an old clay pipe was one of ( the sights, now much less frequent than formerly, in the Carthage (Kan.) courthouse the other day. She had come in from some of the backwoods corners of Jasper county, where there are others of her kind. “From Tennessee? Why, sartinly,” she replied to the local interviewer’s query, “and from South Ca’liny to Tennessee when a little girl. You see, us girls learned to smoke the tobacco we raised, and the boys they chawed it, and there wasn’t no objections from the old folks. When we come out to Missouri, along afore the war, our pipes come too. Yes; I reckon I ain’t the only old lady in Jasper county what smokes a pipe.”