Show M OMAN IN THE WINDOW Her Facc 111 ArUStlC I The Tobacco Manufacturers AvcrtiSiuR Kcycngc Next to the railroads the largest SUU1ers of con artistic printing are the tobacco manufacturers In thisbusiness art has made rapid headway The be no better than it was years tobacco mav hit ago I today there is nothing like plainness of I found printing Cigars or commonplace cigarettes engraving smoking to and he I chewing tobaccos arc all packed in beau I tifully ornamented boxes or orpapels Even the vilest stuff in the market I goes out in side upon of it a and package the with rankest a beautiful fine cut picture made is sold from pails bearing elegant ever specimens of the engravers art I tion hand fills his dirty black pipe The out sec of as pretty a package as the veriest dandy could care for Woman is generallv supposed to be an enemy to I enemy o tobacco She dislikes to have it in the house and her comments upon the occasional condi tion of a railway car floor after a few I chewers have been in it for a time are al ways more direct and deserved than i choice She is punished for this by the I manufacturers They have made her the I patron saint of their advertising and dec orations Wherever there is a tobacco store with an Indian standing stupidly II m front and a suggestion of snuff in thn air there be sure n womans sly face peeps forth from the front window Here at least woman and tobacco ap pear to be friends They might have grown from the same plant In the counterfeit presentment there are as many kinds of women as there are kinds of tobacco and cigarettes cigar-ettes There are women of all races and with all sorts of costumes but they all beautiful are Some are exquisitely ex-quisitely dressed and a few are not dressed half enough There is a Creole holding draper in her hand that should be on her back Close by her is an angel sitting on r projecting rock clad in moonshine and at her feet a sleeping painter who had tired himself out daubing daub-ing the name of his employers tobacco I upon all the rocks within liis reach If this good angel will only dream the I whole tribe into sleep and keep them I ever slumbering she will become very popular hereabouts I Those photographs of young beauties are said to have been taken from life in Richmond Va and the particularly pretty ones in a dozen positions is understood under-stood to be the wife of a prominent manufacturer man-ufacturer in that city A very neat thing is the woman in the dentists chair pleasantly influenced by laughing gas and displaying a pretty mouth and a couple of rows of teeth so white and perfect per-fect as to be the envy of 350000 ladies in Chicago This picture is labeled I should smile and is so realistic that one I catches himself listening for the laugh A series of charming pictures are the Belles of the Sunny South with their jaunty sunshades and exquisite necks Quite bewitching is the beauty peeping from behind the opera fan Delicious is that little scene of a maiden who sits I in one chair with her feet in another I filling the air full of cigarette I smoke as blue as her hosier when her father steps in and surprises her The I I photolithographs of a girls shoulders I back arm neck and side of face are I I much admired as is also the unique representation t rep-resentation of a very charming lady climbing a ladder She is after fruit and wears u furtrimmed sleeveless dress That picture of a handsomely dressed woman mixing her fathers or her brothers or somebodys Perique and I Virginia on a corner of the table with the corner turned carelessly back is a I work of commercial art as is also the I representation of a young girl wading a i brook Even the young man who sits lazily in I his chair and dozes over his pipe dreams I of a maiden who appears above him too I fleshy for a real angel and too angelic to j I take offense at There is something appropriate ap-propriate in the introduction of Mexican j and Spanish senoritas Creoles and Persian I Per-sian beauties for they all smoke The Persian girls smoke incessantly and sweeten their breath at every third whiff with a small lump of sugar It is a mark of esteem to permit a visitor to smoke out of the same pipe and the Persian young man who goes courting need not take I cigars with him nor leave the stumps on the front fence as he goes in for if he prospers in his suit the maiden takes a whiff herself and then passes the pipe to him If she alternates whiffs she is j iu love but if she gives him a whiff only once in a while she is mefely polite i i I Even better than this is the Creole habit of giving their lovers a sort of secondhand second-hand benefit of their smoke This charming charm-ing trick is performed by the maiden filling fill-ing her mouth full of smoke and passing I it quietly and lovingly into the mouth of her aamirer as she gives him a kiss If i he is gallant he will retain it but a moment mo-ment and then return it in hopes of getting it back again This is a pretty trick but it has its dangers If the maiden chances to have the larger mouth the young man runs the risk of being filled unpleasantly full of smoke Most young men are willing to take the chances Chicago Herald |