Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1891 — Where Every woman Smokes. [ARTICLE]

Where Every woman Smokes.

Everybody smokes in «fapan. Th< pipes hold a little wad of flne-cut to bacco as big as a pea. It is fired, am the smoker takes oue long whiff, blow lug the smoke in a cloud from hii mouth and The ladies bav< pipes with longer stems than the men and if one of them wishes to show i gentleman a special mdrk of favor shi lights her pipe, takes half a whiff hands it to him and lots him finish on the whiff. A rapid penman cau write thrity words a minute. To do this he must draw his quil through the space of a ro l—l6s feet In forty minutes pen travels a furlong, and in five hours and athiid one mile.