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BOSTON GIRLS SMOKE 'EM ' ,
The Cigarette Habit Prevalent Among the
Cultured Hub Ladies.
MRS. STANLEY TO AMERICAN EYES.
Ail KfTort to Itcduco the Marrlnfic-
ublo Afjes GosHlp of Prominent
Women Facts of Interest
for the Fair Sex.
GirlH Roliiml the Counter.
If I were asked to give a sot of rules or
suggestions for girls whoso days are
spent behind the counter , they would
road something dike this , writes Kate
Tannatt Woods in the Ladies' Home
Journal :
Remember that all the time spent in
the store belongs to your employer.
Th at courtesy behind the counter wins
oven the most captious customer.
That gossip about young mon , or with
them , is unbuslnoMS-llko , nnd , under the
circumstances , rude.
Nover'attompt to instruct n customer ;
while you may suggest , or politely ques
tion , tno desirability of this or that.
Do not say , "Hero , Sade , hand moyour
pencil , " to your neighbor.
Never say , "No , wo haven't got it , " in
n short , crisp tone ; far bettor a polite
"I am sorry to say wo do not have it In
stock. "
Do not thrust a package at a customer
ns you would a plslol in the face of a
highwayman.
Never throw down goods with an air
which to "I don't
seems say , care
whether you buy It or not. "
Remember tljat the purchaser often
sees more in the Holler than she thinks ,
and rollnod young women have made
valuable friends for life by their cour
tesy to an accomplished customer.
Always rorneinbor that your duty to
your employer demands your best ser
vice , nntl duty to yourself also.
Seek to bo n model saleswoman , and
some ono will soon rocognlzo your mer
its.
its.Dress
Dress modestly and avoid cheap jew
elry ; the best ornaments are promptness ,
politeness , a well modulated voice , and
strict attention to duty.
Ilnvo your hair noally combed , your
tooth well brushed and finger nails tidy.
Customers are often repelled by untidy
clerks of either sex.
Remember aiways that you aVe su
perior to circumstances only when you
make yourself to. The most solllsh , ex
acting employer will gladly recognl/o
the merits of an cillciont clerk.
Frown down with womanly scorn the
nonsensical title of "saleslady , " It is a
grand thing to bo a woman anything ; if
you arc a true nnd good woman , a good
clerk is infinitely moro rospeclablo than
a BO.called "anleshuly , " nnd the term has
a shoddyiBh ring which is totally un-
American.
Out of 100 ! clerks in a largo establish
ment , the fuvorltoviln nearly all of the
customers is a young woman who in
variably dresses modestly in black nnd
1ms such charming manners that it ia a
positive pleasure to visit her depart
ment.
To Hotltico tlio MarrlnKonlilo Aue ,
Renewed pressure is to bo brought
upon the legislature at Its next session
to secure ttio pabsago of u bill to reduce
the marriageable ngo of girls to fifteen
years. Suoh a bill was considered by
the judiciary committee last winter , but
it was never reported. Its advocates were
members of the New York and other
oclotlos for the prevention of cruelty to
children and other persons interested in
charitable measures , says the Now York
Sun. It was opposed however , by sev
eral clergymen and by ono or two or
ganizations of women.
The chief reason advanced in favor of
the change Is a practical but deplorable
ono which lias been repeatedly forced
upon the attention of those who deal
with the misfortunes of the young. The
reason is plainly bet forth by Mr. Gerry
of the children's society , who is ono of
the principal advocates of the change ,
in this case , which ho recently cited :
"I know of a case where a man had
wronged a girl , but was ready to make
reparation by marrying hor. The girl
was- under the legal ago , and though sho.
was BOOH to become a mother , yet a
justice of the peace who was
asked to perform the ceremony refused
to do so , saying that it would bo a viola
tion of the law. A bill was introduced
last winter changing the marriageable
ngo. It was referred to the judiciary
committee , where it still slumbers.
Somobooy or something should bo done
to awtik'on that bill , as it provides the
remedy that is needed to prevent a repe
tition of such cases as that I have men
tioned and others could speak of. "
A broader statement of the views of
the supporters of the pending bill is
that they believe that under all eireum-
stam-es marriage is botlor than illicit
intercourse. Under Ihls theory , proba
bly , England lias for centuries main
tained Iho limit at the extremely low
ago of twelve years. It is argued that
in this country of mixed nationalities six
teen is too high a limit , and that it
should bo reduced at least n year. OtH-
cors of the children's society say that
cases contlnualy { conio to their attention
in which the present law lias proved a
bar to the removal ot the stigma of dis
honor from the name of young women
nnd of their offspring , For obvious rea
sons they are unwilling to render public
such cases in detail , but they are strongly
of opinion that the law in this respect
should bo changed.
The opponents ot the measure bollovo
that a cluingo in the law would do
more harm than good. Whllo they
are willing to admit , most of thorn ,
that Iho law may work hardships and in
justice in some few cases , they argue
that hasty and ill-considered marriage
of children should bo in general terms
prohibited. Marriages contracted in
extreme youth , they say , are very apt to
turn out badly. They make more dl-
vorco cases than any others. To prohi
bit such unions would prevent many
elopements and MX-rot marriages.
The matter will probably have a prom
inent place in the attention of the legis
lature and Boino interesting hearings
may bo expected in committee. The bill
which still slumbers in commltleo flxos
the minimum mnrrlngcablo age of mules
at eighteen years.
liven DoHton Ulrls Minlcc
Do Boston women use clgnrotles ? The
query is often put and sometimes an
faworod. Generally the answer Is in the
negative. The fact Is , however , that
many moro women than anybody sup
poses do smoke , says the Boston record.
They are not found among the shop
Indies and working girls , but in the
ranks of the moro elegant and cultured.
Said a charming girl a few days ago :
"If I sit up late I nlwnya smoke a cig
arette before going lo bod. I should not
go to sloop for hours 11 1 did not. "
"Wo hud such a very jolly time the
morning after the * ball , " I was told
one day last winter by a blonde with the
most Innocent blue eyes and complexion
like a rosoloaf. "Noll and Dorothea
stopped with mo all nicht because
they llvo out of town , " you know ,
nnd in the morning nftor breakfast ,
which wo took about It ! , Nell said : kllas
not somebody a cicurettoV1 Mninum was
there , and she brought out a box and wo
all sat around the open llro nnd smoked
ind chatted , and had the most awfully
oily morning imaginable. Dolly didn't
enow before that mamma smoked , ana
was frightened to death when Nell sug
gested it. "
I know of another case whore mother
and daughter hold cozy chats over their
cigarettes. They have lived in Europe
v good deal and acquired the habit
there. "When wo have no company I
always join my husband In a clgarutto
over the cotloo at dinner. Ho likes it
says it seems bo much moro social. Of
course Ldo not euro to defy the preju
dices of my friends by smoking in their
presence , so I do not. " Phis is also n
liighly-brod woman who has lived much
abroad.
While buying a box of cigars last week
at a prominent dealer's a young lady
came In and asked for half a pound of
host Havana tobacco for cigarettes. She
paid $1.25 for it , and carefully remarked
that it was for her brother. I asked the
dealer if many women patronized him ,
but ho said that they did not como to
him. They prefer to buy from their
druggists.
Iloro is nn incident told mo not long
ago : "Ono night last week , about 12 , I
was slowly sauntering homeward , and
passing a swell apartment hotel , hap
pened to glance In the windows of tno
llrst floor. The sash curtains were u
trifle open , nnd there , in a soft white
wrapper , sat a very pretty young woman ,
cigarette in mouth , her head thrown
back lazily on her easy chair. She was
evidently just going to bed , for her hair
was loose magnificent hair that almost
swept to the lloor. Slio did look com
fortable and sweet enough to eat. "
A clover young woman , who writes
stories and poems , says :
"Yes , I smoke cigarettes occasionally.
If I am tired and nervous they are very
soothing in tlioir effects. I do not
'parade' it , because society is supposed
to disapprove , -but in my own "room
nlono , or in the company of intimalo
friends , I see nothing objectionable in
Volls a Survival of Harlmrisin.
Reno Bncho In Kate Field's Washing
ton says the wearing of veils is the sur
vival of the barbarous custom of seclud
ing women , "Chinese ladies are never
seen abroad any moro than are
women of condition among the Hindoos.
In Persia , Turkey , Egypt , and other
lands similar habits are observed.
Among some ot these people , however ,
the custom of seclusion has taken on an
other phase. The women , when permit
ted to go out , carry their hiding with
them in the shnpo of a voll. At the be
ginning this is an opaque cloth wrapped
around and around the face and body ,
ton or moro yards often being ubod for
the purpose in the orient.
"Tho custom of hiding away women
having as its origin the anxiety of the
man to keep his treasure for himself , is
undoubtedly of Asiatic derivation. It
seems never to have boon dependent
upon degrees of civilization , but merely
upon rnco instinct. It is but a step
from Germany , whore any respectable
woman may walk the streets of ii'city at
midnight with impunity , to Franco , in
which country n girl is considered to
have sacrificed her reputation if she is
BOOH in the act of taking a stroll at high
noon with her own brother. For how ,
forsooth ! io a etrnngor to know that it is
her brotthor ?
"Tho Tar tars seclude their women , but
they do It by wrapping them up , because
they are a moving people and must carry
the boraglio with them. In Africa the
Moors disguisetholndles of their harems
in like manner when the latter venture
abroad , while In Syria women wear long
veils which are elevated above the tops
ol their heads by wuut might be culled
liorns of pnpet > oryood attached to
the crown. It is to this custom that the
bible refers wh'en , t speaks of having
one's horn exalted. The higher the
horn , of course , the greater the appear
ance of dignity. Among the ancient
Jews the veil was but little nlTectod , Iho
cuslom being for women to consort freely
with men.
"For ages past It has boon the fashion
for women to bccludo themselves in times
of mourning moro particularly when
the mourning was for a departed hus
band. The Hindoo widow today is se
cluded for life. In the mourning veil
worn by widows among our people is to
bo found a survival of this ancient mode.
"From being intended for Iho purpose
of hiding the woman , the veil was modi
fied among the old Romans and Grcoks
so as to become an article of graceful
drapery flowing from the back of the
head. 'Nowadays a further stage in its
ovolutlon has transformed it into a more
shadowy protection for the face , de
signed as a preservative of beauty. Oc
ulists say that , oven in this shape it is
most destructive to the oyo-sight. "
I'cuRiint Woman in Jnpin.
The peasant woman , clad summer nnd
winter in the snmo dross of blue cotton ,
and hardly distinguishable afar from
her husband , who wears his liair in a
knot like hersand is clad in a robe ot the
same color the peasant woman who is
daily seen bowing over her toil in
the tea Holds or in the liquid mud of the
rice swales , protected by a rough hat on
days when the sun burns , and having
her head completely enveloped when
the north wind blows by a dreadful
mufllor , always blue , that only leaves
the almond eyes to view the small and
funny peasant woman of Japan , wher
ever she may besought for , oven in most
remote districls of the interior , is in-
contcstably moro rollned than our peas
ant woman of the west , writes Pierre
Loti in Harper's Magazine. She has
pretty hands and pretty , delicate feet ; a
more louch would sullico to transform
her inlo one of these ladies that are
painted on vases or transparent screens ,
and there would bo little loft to teach
her of mannered graces , of affectations
of all sorts. She almost always culti
vates a pretty garden around her nnclont
cottage of wood , whoso Interior , gar
nished with white mats , is scrupulously
clean. Her household utensils , her little
tlo cups , her little pots , her little
dishes , iiiblcad , of being , as with
ub , of common earthenware ,
daubed with brilliant flowers , are of
transparent porcelain decorated with
thot.0 light and fino' ' paintings that boar
witness ot thomsiplvos lo a long heredity
of art. She arraiigga with original tnslo
the altar of , jior humble ancestors.
Finally she knowft how to arrange in
her own vases , with the least spray of
verdure , slondor'bouquots that the most
artistic among < ) uf Women would hardly
bo capable of cdmposing.
She may possibly bo moro honest than
her slstor of the cities and her life may
bo moro regular from our European
point of view , of course ; she is also moro
reserved with strangers , moro timid ,
with a sort of mistrust and dislike for
the intruders , notwithstanding her
amiable welcome and her smiles.
In the villnges of the interior , fnr
from Iho recent railroads and from all
modern Importations , in places whore
the millenary immobility of the land has
not boon disturbed , the peasant woman
has probably changed but little from
what must have boon several centuries
ago , her most remote ancestors
whoso soul , vanished in time ,
lias oven ceased to hover ever
the family altnr. At the barbaric pe
riods of our western history , when our
mothers still preserved something of the
grand and wild rudeness of primitive
times , there lived doubtless yonder , in
those isles at the east of the ancient
world , these same llltlo peasant women ,
so polite and bo mincing , nnd also thebo
same little ladies of the cities , so civil
ized , with their adorable courtObics.
Mrs. Stanley -imorioim Eyes.
The ladies are gossiping about Mrs.
Henry M. Stanley and her mother , Mrs.
Tonnant , in a way that must make their
ears tingle , bays the Now York Press.
So much was said about the beauty of
the younger lady at the time of her en
gagement to the great explorer , and
American ideas of beauty are so dilTor-
ont from these which prevail in England ,
that disappointment is expressed on find
ing Mrs. Stanley what I hoard her de-
seilbod by a Murray Hill society loader ,
"a with
solid-looking Englishwoman ,
too much of the color of good health. "
But that is the Englishman's special
typo of beauty. The woman that is
strong , robust , and healthy , who sots
her foot squarely down on Iho ground
and walks wilh athletic instead of minc
ing manner , is just what suits him. Bo-
bides , I cannot imagine that nftor his ex
perience in Africa Mr. Stanley would
liavo selected any palo , ethereal beauty
as his wife , or any woman who was not
strong nnd solid , after the English typo.
The criticism that she wears hoi-
gloves half buttoned at the theater Is
"important if true , " and so shockingly
awful that I wonder some of our Murray
Hill dames do not rush down to the Everett -
orott houbo and toll Mr. Stanley that he
has made a borious mistake in his mar
riage. If Mrs. Tonnant , with English
taste , choose to wear a many-col
ored scarf to the theater it is
olTsot by the fact that she has
bred her daughter with such noble quali
ties of mind and heart as to win the
most distinguished traveler ot his ago ,
and that is all there is of it. By the
way , whllo the London papers were extolling -
tolling Miss Dorothy 'Pennant's beauty ,
they seem to have entirely overlooked
hor'sister , who , now that she is on this
side of the water , is pronounced the
handsome member of the Tonnant
family.
Mrs. O. 1 > . IltmtfiiKton.
Mrs. C. P. Hunlington , the wife of the
capitalist and railway magnate , is a
strikingly handsome woman of a rich
oriental typo , says the Now York Press.
She Is a brunette with luxuriant hair of
satiny sort , magnificent largo dark eyes
and line complexion. She is in appear
ance the typo of woman whobo
photograph might bo labeled
"An Odalisque" or an "East
ern Beauty. " She looks like the
most self-indulgent of persons , nnd yot'
she is posbossed of great"force of charac
ter and of exhaustions energy. She is a
very clever woman mentally nnd she is
often her husband's advisor as well as
companion. Their mutual devotion nnd
their enjoyment of each other's society
might nllord food for thought and Imi
tation , too to many a young couple in
their honeymoon. The line now house
which Mr. iluntington is building at the
corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh
street is opposite the homos of Cornelius
Vnndorbilt nnd William C. Whitney.
When ho takes possession of it noxtyear
ho will enter right into the hot-bod of
s.volldom , nnd society will await with
anxiety to see if ho and Mrs. Iluntington
will dovolopo any "aspirations. " These
who know Mr. Iluntington best but
very few people know him at all say
"no" right now , nnd very emphatically.
General Morgan's Moss Hox.
A resident of Richmond , Vn. , has como
into possjsslon of a revolutionary relic
in the shapeof General Daniel Morgan's
mess chest , which is estimated as being
liio years old. The chest is made of pine ,
heavily ribbed with iron , nnd Is closed
by an old-time ponderous lock.
THE TINY LITTLE-TOOTSIES ,
Petite and Pretty Pootgear of Some Well
Known Women.
THE MARRIAGEABLE AGE OF GIRLS.
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Now York's IjORlslntiiro Will IJo Urscd
to Itcdiico it to Firtoaa VuarH
Ol'Intnrcst to the
Fair Ser.
Woman will have the world nt her
foot "till the sun grows cold. " Volumes
have boon written on the feminine foot ;
it has boon curved in marble , stamped
on canvas and immortalized in poetry
and song , says the Now York World.
All nations have boon to the front with
the best foot forward , but the French ,
the Crook , the Spaniard and the Arabic
have boon forced to admit Hint the
Now York woman has the most classic
foot on earth.
Lillian Russell has a trim , slim foot
that is shot from un A last. She buys a
dozen nairs shoes at a time , for which
she pays never loss than $120 , and fre
quently $200.
When the Duke Alexis handed boautl-
ful Mrs. A. C. Bottnor out in the duneo
ho paid her a great many pretty compli
ments , the prettiest perhaps boitij ( thin :
"Madame , if I had not scon u con-
flrnwtion of the story I should accuse
you of having found the Cinderella slip
per. "
Of till the Vnndorbilt ladies Mrs. Frederick - ,
erick iiaa the smallest and Bhapolieat i '
foot.
Mrs. .T. J. Astor had a most beautiful
foot , and her shoos were made from a
miss's last.
Mrs. Paran Slovens' foot is ono of her
host foiituros. Her ankle ? are remarka
bly blonder , and she buys her shoos by
the dozen all low cut , pointed shoes ,
with medium heels , in black silk , satin ,
suede and hand-glovo kid , with a turned
solo aa thin as pupor. Souio ot those
shapely shoos and slippers are embel
lished with cut jot or metallic embroid
ery.
ery.Mrs. . Admiral Lo Roe , who was a rac
ing beauty when she lived in Baltimore ,
has shoos from which many and many a
toast has boon drunk. She is now wear
ing mourning for the second timo. She
lives at the Victoria. She ia still beau
tiful and charming , and her tiny black
Spanish tlea are the onvjr of the women
and the admiration of the men.
Sylvia Garish wears No. 8 stockings ,
the smallest Indies' sl/.o woven , and it is
the opinion of dukedom nnd shocdom
that nor lust appearance was miulo In
the prottlest and smallest slipper that
over entered the Casino.
Mrs. John 0 Calhoun has very par-
trlolnn foot. So has Mrs. Levi II. Mor
ton , Mrs. James' Robert McICeo has a
cat little foot , and Miba Nolllo Arth nr
has the smallest pair of foot that the
whllo house bus known blneo the days of
Dolly Madlbon.
Tlioro is nothing prottlur In boots thnn
Emma Abbott's feet. She is called the
queerest , best customer in the boot and
shoo business. If the cantutrico is going
to bo married in opera slio orders "n few
white bllppors" twenty pairs , ns a rule.
All the rest of the order is for boots-
light top button boots made on a No , 2
II last. They are made to measure al
ways.
Most women have their shoe # made for
their foot. Miss Abbot has hers made
for her dresses u pair for ouch.
When she la to bo measured for u
now stock of nhoes she , brinps a. samp o
for each order and wears never lets than
thrco pairs of stockings. The InsUiuu
sholmdonsix pairs nnd ordered fifty
pairs of shoos to wcnr in her now opera.
Maud Granges , however , has the foot
par excellence. It was sbo who Intro *
ducod the gay footgear. Her soles in-o
beautiful , whether dressed In a blumbcr
slipper or a Louis XIV.
Mrs. Harriet Ilubbnrd Ayer comes
from Chicago with as pretty a foyfreSTf (
Crispin over dreamed of. llor boots are
made on a Chinese ) last , No. 1 } , ana her
taste runs to red , which she wears with
scarlet , rose mid crimson , or rich black
, ico.
The beauteous Sadie Martinet , who
lias literally tramped on human hearts ,
has a pair of feel intended for that pur
pose. She wears a No. 2 , AA width ,
made on a pointed last and made in
Paris at nn expense of COf. She orders
thirty pairs a year twenty for the
stage , eight for evening worn1 , one pull
et Turkish leather baiulals for the loilet
and ono pair of French goat for the
street "With while toilets she wears
braided slippers in llowdr-tintod sitin ,
but her preference is a black hand Icid
with patent vampH made on n Louis XV.
last.
last.Carmonctta's
Carmonctta's famous feet are dressed
by a Havana shoemaker the ono man
in all creation who is kept posted as to
the movements of tno capt.v'ating
dansotibo. This slipper artist is a man
of excellent taste , lie knows the colors
that buit the beauty and style of his
sinuous customer , selects his own
materials , makes thorn up and Cur-
monclta gets her dancing dresses to
macch Uioiu. She takes a No. 2 A last
with a full too , low vamp' and a very
high Spanish liool. They are made on
iloxiblo hand-turned solos of very line
satin do Lyon , and generally without or- -
namentatlon. They costlier $7 a pair ,
nnd she kicks her toes through lifty
pairs a year. She has u weakness for
carmine-red Blockings , with which
she wears nearly all her dancing shoos. -
When Sargonnt painted her portrait ho
took exception to this whim , but the
suplo-jolntod model only laughed and
told her Spanish attendant lo say , "I
wear what ploaocs mo ; ho can paint them
to please his own fancy. " The red Blot-k
ings , however , wont into the splendid
portrait. Carinencita lias a job lot of
odd shoos in her trunk ( the mates of
which have been slolon or borrowed by
admirers , nrtisls , advertisers and model-
makers. Some of thorn have boon given
nwny , and the toasts that have been of
fered in the Carmcncita slipper would
fill u volume nnd a vat.
Good NOIVH for JtcmliiiK Girls.
The friends of Miss Constance Nndon
dispute the stalemcnts made by Herbert
Spencer that her doatli was caused by
exceptional mental development. It
was the strength and vigor of her
brain which kept her spirits oven nnd
allowed her to work without evil olToc-tH.
She wrote for homo hours every day ,
mostly on philosophy , and rose from hoi-
work as fresh as when she bat down.
Her health up lo within oiKhtcon
months of her death was exceptionally
good , nnd the discaso which lurinlnatcd
fatally was one common nllko lo the
dull and gifted , George Kllot , to whom
Mr. Spencer compares Miss Nndonlived
to the ngo of blxty-ono , and , though she
biillorcd from headacho-i , was no worno
than a vast number of women who sel
dom open a book. Mrs. Mbnlaguo But
ler , Miss Fawcolt , and Mlns Alvord all
have ordinary good health , Miss Fnu-
colt beyond the average.
Natural Gas Glvlntl Out.
It is said that the end of next Januniy
will in all probability BOO the end < f
the use of natural gas for mnnufucturli g
purposes , aa the supply Is pracllca1 j
exhausted.