Show Pipe Smoking Government Girls Shock Capital But Blame It All on Shortage of I VASHI WASHINGTON Nov 18 j jUP UP Not UP-Not Not since President Andrew Andrew Andrew An An- drew Jacksons Jackson's wife Rachel shocked capital society with her Tennessee corncob pi pipe po back Inthe Inthe in inthe the has Washington be be- come so worked up over women's women's wom worn ens en's smoking habits Its It's all because of ot the shortage which Is making pipe smokers out of ot women and creating creating cre cre- town boom business for tobacconists lucky enough to have ladles ladles' briars in stock So far only government girls are arc openly puffing away at pipes But one Washington pipe seUer seller seller sell seU- er who reported his entire supply supply supply sup sup- ply of ladies' ladies pipes cleaned out Friday said the ladles ladies of the capital are smoking pipes at homo home and will soon be doing itIn itin it itin in public He even predicted women would be smoking pipes on the street as the shortage gets geta worse Pipe smoking reportedly has caught on like wildfire among the W A Cs and W V WAVES A V E S stationed stationed sta sta- here Authorities are said to frown on the practice but since there are no regulations against it all aU they can do is try to keep it quiet But at all events it looks as asIf asif asit if it the ladles ladles' experiments with tobacco in the rough will not I turn them Into permanent addicts addicts ad ad- I diets of the briar I S Several e eve V e r a I 1 government girls found smoking pipes within the bailiwicks of War Information Director Elmer Davis and War Production Chief J. J A. A Krug confessed on examination cross that they had emptied a into their pipes I |