Show Snuff Habit Dying Offer OtTer a n woman of today n a pinch of snuff and she will wm be quite as ns much offended as a It Victorian dame ame b by the offer of ot a cigarette Yet a century ago the invitation Imitation would have been accept d. d without demur In tho those e days clays the taking of ot snuff was at once a pleasure and a cere cere- mon mony An elaborate ritual s surrounded I a practice smiled on b by the highest inthe in inthe Inthe the lan land Geor George e IV IY had his Kings King's Morning Mixture anti and his Kings King's Evening Evening Dening Eve Eve- ning Mixture his Kings King's Plain and his Kings King's Carolle Queen Charlotte took snuff so did the Princesses Charlotte and Elizabeth Ell And Ancl for a long time a snuffbox had b peen been cn the usual gift of the time so sovereign to those he delighted to honor limit Hut now now now- now 1 f Only recently it was announced that a snuff mill mm at Juniper Green Midlothian If had shut down after more mare than OO years ears of honorable honorable honor honor- lOnor- lOnor able industry owing to the decline of ot the snuff habit London London Answers |