Show washington women are very fond of cigarettes you know that many a young girt girl who walks F street in M MAYBE the afternoon promenade carries her silver case just the same as tho the young dude who flits along at her side with his cane hung upon his arm surprised well it is not astonishing for you know they dont smoke on F street and they dont open lz their cigarette cases in the full glare of the Fun sunlight light while the throngs are looking on but they smoke just the same proprietors of cates cafes will tell you they have a hard task preventing women from smoking in public A proprietor said recently that more than once respectable looking woman patrons have taken out their cigarettes and have been on the verge of lighting up when a waiter has spied them and passed them tho the tip that the rules prohibit women doing such things you know said the proprietor it just look right to see women sitting here at our tables in this fashionable cafe smoking cigarettes with men it is different but it if the women started it our place would be tabooed by the majority of our present class ot of patrons do the women smoke muck a maid who serves as an attendant in the ladies lounging room of one of the popular cafes was asked there are plenty of them who smoke she replied and they carry their smokes around with them all the time but no one would know it their cigarette cases look just like vanity cases you cant tell them apart on the outside why just a few days ago a pretty young girl who had been dining in the cafe stopped in here to adjust her hair and powder her nose she had on her wrist what I 1 thought was a silver vanity case supported by a silver chain but when she opened it instead of taking out a powder puff she extracted a gold tipped cigarette and thrust it in her mouth she offered the case to her young girl friend and she took one too then they bath both lighted up rather queer it but say after all can you tell me what Is the difference between a woman smoking and a man smoking |