Show SIDELONG GLANCES HISPER it not abroad tell it not tel in the streets that l1l t ft V i somo of the fair sex i of this city and Li l V they are not of that t class which wears i cass 1 r the scarlet are very fond of an afterdinner cigarette cig-arette or one smoked in the boudoir just before LH be-fore retiring They do not use the vulgar common com-mon everyday cigarette affected by their effeminate brothers but dainty little pets not much larger than the pencil one finds on the average ball programme such as are guaranteed on the wrapper to bo tenderly white and sweetly J fragrant S S This may or may not be news to many readers I confess however that I was not a little staggered when I first corroborated the story that had been told me before I was a couple of weeks ago while out for my evening stroll that I chanced into a select drug store The screen was pulled open there was a flutter of feathers lace and flowers a whispered consultation with the clerk behind the soda water fountain who immediately proceeded to compound a decoction that looked suspiciously like a heavy claret cup When this was disposed dis-posed of more whispering ensued and this time her dainty mouth came into such close proximity to the sunburned ear of the clerk as to cause red streaks of blushes to chase up and down his face Ho nodded nod-ded put out a small package and in return for it a dime dropped into the till Then he glanced at me and smiled He is my beaux I raised my eyebrows and returned tho salutation Happen very often J I asked Nope ho replied and I could see that he had no desire to pursue the subject further Some days later a young lady friend of I mine was sampling some perfume and by accident a little of the liquid spilled over her taper fingers Ugh she said I dont at all like that do you And she held her wellmanicured fingers up to my nose Not at all partial to it I assure you quoth 1 And what do you think 1 Over and above tho odor of the perfume came the rank smell of the cigarette Since that time I have pursued my researches re-searches and have come to the conclusion that many hundred cigarettes are consumed con-sumed daily in this city by young ladies whose ages range from sixteen years and upwards I is an evil too the ill effects of which cannot be overestimated Ib ic not bad enough that the constitutions of the future fathers of the nation should be ruined by the vile habit without the future mothers coming down to the same level Cigarette smoking is the threshold to the insane asylum i I wonder whether the police committee will report upon the whereabouts of several bolts of cloth J 4 it S L E Hall who by the way is a particular par-ticular friend of mineyou know he sell sewing machinesis reported as objecting to being dubbed Civil War Hall because of a speech he made during the campaign I he objects to that title how would Irrepressible Irrep-ressible Conflict Hall suit him i I is strange how circumstances alter cases and how little things sometime change the whole course of a mans life I have now in mind a young man who stands well in the estimation of the public and whose character is above reproach re-proach One day he fell in love with a Mormon girl and during all the time she smiled sweetly upon himthat was before the party division he voted tho Peoples ticket Later she went off with a hand somer man and over since that time my friends life has been a burden and delusion delu-sion to him because there is not an election every week in order that he might drop in his little Liberal ballot as ho did in tho late county contest NELLIE NAUGirrr |