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Show public or otherwise, after dinner, and do not regard themselves as eternally damned for having don so Their fathers, brothers or husbands, hus-bands, as the case may be, do not disapprove of their acts, and the heinousness of their "crime," as viewed by certain self-appointed censors in the United States is, therefore, not perceivable in the countries whose cities I have named. How immeasurably preferable and more cleanly in every way is the present custom of smoking a cigaarette at times than the old-fashioned old-fashioned one of taking snuff and offerng a pinch to one's friends from the same box. "Comparisons are odorous," as the mythical but famous Mrs. Partington was given to observing. They are parti-cularly parti-cularly go in this case. FOREIGN WOMEN AND CIGARETTES. A recent dispatch from Paris, relating to the foreign women seeing see-ing no crime in the cigarette has caused adverse criticism in America. Amer-ica. The dispatch is as follows: French society is wondering at what ia regarded as the marvelous impertinence of some American women publicly and openly criticizing, criti-cizing, even attacking, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and other women of society for daring to smoke a cigarette occasionally. "What will not those American meddlers do next?" is the inquiry often heard. In Paris, London, St. Petersburg, Berlin and other cen-ters cen-ters of fashionable women of the highest social position and, needless o fv, necesrilv unMpnisherl reTivttirn, vho smoke a cirarette in |