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Show j How It Looked. ! It is t he all but universal custom among the fashionable ladies of Venico of the present day to smoke cigarettes, both when alone and in company. The hm-tcss at a ball among the nobility receives her guests with a cigarette between her fingers, fin-gers, and all the fair dames smoke in the pauses of tho dance. The wife of the sou of Rolert Browning, Brown-ing, ai American lady, created a profound pro-found sensation in Venetian society by declaring that she would not invite ladies to smoke at her house, and tho little daughter of another American lady unconsciously un-consciously uttered a severe criticism I upon tho custom. I Tho mother was visiting an Italian i woman of title, and in her honor a ball ! was given in the palace of the hostess. The little girl, who was tl years old. was taken by her nurse from her bed to a gallery where she could look down into the ball room after tho company had as- sembled. She looked at the brilliant 1 si;;ht for a moment in silence and then asked in much wonder: j "Where are the ladies?" ! "Why, the hall is full of them," answered an-swered the nurse, j "Oh, no," raid tho child, "all those j womeu but mamma aro smoking." Youth's Companion. |