Show F TAK RS IN THE SENATE St Louis Glo Democrat Filled with Copenhagen snuff 1 U r I tile the Ut lit little Uttie Uttie tie tle antique e ebony snuff boxes box on either et r side aMe of the United States senate sate te i her ber r are liberally hibe lIy patronized by b the Ute so 80 lone lons lon in fact it racy may be stated that snuff snut sniffling among g the senators s t is decidedly decidedly decidedly edly on the tk increase lucre These Thee little litti boxes boxe are a survival of the habit of oC i which was almost universal in the sev leV seventeenth seventeenth eighteenth an far into the nineteenth centuries among Amon persons of fashion and public men During the lat latter latter latter ter half of the last century however th the habit ebbed to that point when it was almost out of style if It style It may ma mabe be called But the ancient snuff boxes box boz remain and are arf a part of history They IlIe are re as regularly re and carefully looked I after as in the good told days when what is now no the supreme court room ua wal the senate f chamber and when that old partisan Doorkeeper r Basset nasset looked after the refilling of these boxes the first thing in the morning Most Mosto of the of snuff in this august augut augu t body came raine honestly hone tl by b the hab it They Thy were eft taught the thc manners of i southern statesmen stat men of fifty and IlO yearn pars pars ago when tn almost every eyel and gentleman of If prominence had Ins his hi Individual snuff box boz often a I beautiful bE pi piece cc of ot workmanship and many of them t em and costly osty II 1 These antique snuff EmilI boxes in the senate chamber make mak the past live again and the use of caf o them t during the da days das s agone I would make m ke Interesting reading In Tn the older diplomacy the snuff muff box played a I prominent role and from present indi indications in this tins role will be played again j i It now takes over to pa py F our j annual snuff bill and more than f 1 pounds of this article k to 8 each ach I I year fn In the United Stales not all alt of this immense amount being used u e by the tIme poorer whites and negroes of ot the thes south s uth Like the cigarette habit is spreading into every walk of life lifetime the time rich and the poor the whit and the colored and it is not to be wondered at that even the grave and dignified senators find that a pinch of the crea creature creature creature ture goes pleasantly Talleyrand once said paul that he regarded snuff muff as indis India indispensable Indispensable as he could a always 1 vs make a pause in a conversation anguIn anc time for thought while he offered his snuff box bo to his caller or his antagonist The late Senators Vest Test of Missouri Bate of Tennessee Butler of South Car Carolina olina olinc Ransom of North Carolina Ben Hill Hili of Georgia and a largo large number of other senators from the southern states I used the senate snuff boxes with fre Cre frequency quency was a part of the daily proceedings Of the present sen son senators senators atoms there are a number who walk over oer overto overto to the little boxes and take tale ont out a pinch snuffling with apparent delight The number of is noticeably on the increase in the body and even one of the youngest has become almost a daily dally user of the article An ator from Washington has been known to excuse himself from the supreme court and walk over to the senate chamber to get Bet a pinch Inch of Copenhagen lie He never enters the senate chamber without sampling the contents cont of oC the ebony boxes and is never particular as to whether It comes ont out of the Demo Democratic Democratic cratic or Republican box there being one for each of oC the political parties but the one ont on the Democratic cratic side ski is the most moat liberally patronized |