WOMEN SMOKERS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1324, 30 December 1911, Page 11

WOMEN SMOKERS.

AND THE CIGARETTE HABIT. : The cigarette habit among women has tsays a London cablegram published last week iu Sydney) increased to a great extent of late. Many women show an unconquerable craving for "a smoke," and it is now a common thing in many Loudon restaurants to sec members of the sex puffing av;ny at cigarettes. It was rather a curious coincidence, in regard to cigarette smoking among women, that a correspondent should have sent, in observations concerning the habit in Australia just as the above cablegram appeared in a Sydney paper of last week's date, in connection with the habit in England. "At a home in Wellington," the writer says, "I was interested to see one of the guests offer his cigarette, case to the ladies iu the drawingroom after dinner. They declined in such a manner that the visitor was quite embarrassed, and made all sorts of apologies. And then he told us about the cigarette habit amongst women in Sydney. "You go to few restaurants or hotels but what in the retiring rooms. lounges, or in the drawing rooms (public or private) you see women putting cigarettes. It has grown so common a habit now that no one takes any notice of it. It used to be couriered quite wicked for a woman to smoke a cigarette on' the sly —nov thev do it quite openly everywhere. Not in liie street yet, but 1 have seen them smoking on scats in the parks and in motors. Of course, in Ihe lounge in the 'Australia' or at Paris House fin Casllcrcagh Street) the habrt is sliockinglv common—not to say vulgar. I ersonallv, I cannot get used to seeing nice clean'white English ladies smoking. It makes me think that Kipling was horribly right when he wrote ror the Colonel's lady and Judy 0 Grady (or a Maori wahiue for that matter) are sisters under their skin.' "There's no question about it—tne cigarette habit in women-in Sydney and Melbourne (and in Wellington for that matterl-is growing. Here is a chance for a new 'anti' who will lead ttewj in rescuing women from Lord Nicotine.' The King has awarded the Edward Medal of the second class to Mr. Llewellyn Williams, under-manager of Trencherbonc Mine, for his bravery in connection with the disaster at the Hulton Colliery, Lancashire, in December, 1910. "Katherino Tynan" says: "I have tried many soaps, and have found none so fresh and delicious as M'Clinton's.* The King recently sent a gift of pheasants and hares for distribution among sick members of the staff'of the Church Army. ■■