SPECTATORS AMAZED BY WOMEN WHO SMOKE i J t Unusual Scene Witnessed in Public Room Dining-Room of I l the Palace Hotel San Francisco 1 i II I I f 17 SAN FRANCISCO Cal Cat Feb The The TheiA iA 1 J 1 u f spectacle of women smoking cigarettes In a public is s wit wll- ij t almost every night by In Iny y 1 i Palace lace Hotel grill At one table on rI londay Io dal night was as the handsome Mrs ko of ot London puffing away at atin att 4 t i we in a most unconcerned mant man than t p. p r. r attired attire i In a gorgeous Parisian t gown and bedecked with Jewels which 1 her sister half the Princess de do Chimay M Plight not scorn to wear Next to her was her daughter Miss Torrance who I t claims kinship to the but who ho was as not smoking At the next table there sat the cynosure cynosure J sure of ot every everyonE one In the cafe cate Mrs Kenneth Kenneth Kenneth Ken Ken- neth Wilson lIson of ot Tranby Croft a famous rI 11 I English beauty and member of ot the Kings King's set when he was the Prince c 0 erf Wales She smoked away complacently as f If she were doing doing- the most commonplace commonplace commonplace common common- place thing possible In the open court was a distinguished distinguished- looking Belgian woman who dallied with witha a cigarette But Dut all these ladles ladies seemed novices In the dainty vice of nicotine compared to tJ a certain lady who looked like an American and who at first hadnot hadnot had hadnot not been smoking When hen Mrs JIrs TOrrance Mrs Wilson and the Belgian lad lady had been puffing putTing for awhile awhile a awhile while at their cigarette the American woman emboldened apparently by the example of ot the others produced a cigarette cigarette cigarette cigar cigar- ette case of ot her own lighted a weed which she had taken from the case and impe Immediately with the prettiest of ot manners man man- nets ners began bean to blow smoke from her lips s