THE SMOKING HABIT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 262, 5 November 1890, Page 5

THE SMOKING HABIT.

Victoria is Opposeo to it, but Wales is

Not.

Queen Victoria has an intense horror of smoking, and it is strictly prohibited at Windsor Castle, at Balmoral and.at OsborneThis indeed is one of the main reasons why tha visits of the Prince of Wales to his august mother are so brief and so few and far bebween,. for the heir-apparent to the English throne is so little accustomed bo eeli'-denial and so fond of smoking that he is scarcely ever to be seen for an hour together without* a cigar or cigarette between his lips. Of his sisters only the Princess Louise, marchioness of Lome, smokes, bub bobh his wife and hi? daughters, especially, Princess Maud, are accustomed to indulge .in a cigarette when in their morning room at Sandringbam or Marlborough house, with Miss Bessie Knollys. Many, in fact most of bho ladies in France, such as bhe Duchesses, de Mo.uchy, da Rochefoucaqld-Dou-dearvill.' d'Uses and de Maille, are fond of cigarettes* the- fashion having been set in France some thirty-five years ago by Empress Eugenic, who* like, all Spaniards, was never at her ease except when puffing clouds of fragrant smoke.