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Show Smoke Wreaths for Old Women on Poor Farm Elaborate Room to Be Pro vide dSWn ere Lady Nico tine May Be Entertained ST PAUL Aug 2S A silent lit tie group of gray haired women some of them grandmothers and some great grandmothers resting easily in comfortable rock ng chairs with th n blue ribbons of smoke r s ng from the r meerschaum and calabasn pipes will be one of the modernisms at the new $150 000 women s bu lding now in process of complet on at the Ramsey county poor farm For the old lad es are to ha e an elaborate smoking room f tted m mod era style and. sa d Mrs Albert Moore w fe of the farm super ntendent v th a smile today, if the dear old souls want the walls covered' w th p ctures of race horses, pr ze f ghters and base ball players they maj have them When we took a poll of the old lad es regarding the establishment of a den for smoking she continued there was hardly a d ssenting vote We shall furnish the tobacco and we expect the smoker to be one of the most popular places of the inBtitut on Several of the old women are plan n ng to color meerschaum pipes while others declare they w 11 retain the r cob pipes deep te the r contrast to the fur rush ngs |