The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1899, Page 7

e [ - kavuvfl'-‘- T S g AR 1 \l % WE WASHINGTON GirLS SMOKE BYERY DAY " GEMIE DRAWLED - cigarcttes, v smoke In thelr hom % 1o afternoon tes, atd » Uhieir clube,and meet There o are many WoEEn In San @rancisco soclety who be- lorg to smoking clubs SAYe they ol or young™' . “Both. All ages smoke. It is quite as common. here a5 {in Buropa—the only Qif- ference is thut here one ipust hide,, Peo- plo talk. you know. In Furope it s wll opeu. © But In America—oh, well, eyery But it 4% pot And 1~1 sdell day in Put 1 do not speak names 1 i sno, L.left in'a silence as safe awling, drawhing parrot s among the it hung palms of his tro “Do you Know any girls who smoke?' 1 asked the big tailer-made gixl. She bad overtuken me on her way homeward from a school of Ilustration. “Of course. [ do it she answered. *“Come on home and 1'll show you.” We bent forward against the Pine street hill und made for its top. Yellow babies galloped around us and scrambled to meet vellow fathers, Away and beyond was the house where the tailor-made girl lived. Her mother met us. *“Come into tne parlor.” she sald. cozily, with a move to rafse. the shades and face a chair that was ail domestic. “'No, we're going up to the attic.”” the tallor-made girl. “The attic! What do you want to take Miss Crandall up to that rookery for? It's nothing but an old "lumber room, where you bump your head, Miss Cran- dall. Lou wolild rather uux‘;nflw_ro- than to sleep ‘on the floor, like 2. Christian, in a civilized Iron bedstead.” “Come on,”" ordered Lot. Qi Her mother laighed and followed us up said n irst flight of her b e top. shoving a dust e the: banister, * she warned as was dark and [ u stoop, nor did 1 hear the ne. [ bumped Lou slammed the attic t smoll-ihe smoke now, vs hear her coming in lie room sprawled over half the house and its sides and ceiling were slapped in heré and there where tha architect had grown wianzieal. An old fish net sagged from the fingles. Gibson cuts from maga- zipes, photagraphs, pen-and-ink studies, papered the walis and flapped the floor. The dimpess wits splasied here and there with the splendor of Chinese lanterns. Back in the darkest corner a hammock was hung. 5 “That's my cousin in the. hammock.” sald the girl. “Wake up. Genie; you're a lazy thing. 1 wish you had to _¢limb the hill T climb every day. o pack to Wash- Ington and advertise the Californta cli- mate, Genie mine; it's making a Hebe of v £ 24 ? She jolted the hammock with her strong firm arm and the Hebe siid drowsily upon the floor. “Wake up&nd show your manners, Genie. o for the lady, my dear.” . Genie blinked and woke, The artist un- locked a ncx'z‘z desk m&m out a five- cent package of cigarettes. . “Mamma's dusting and she thinks we's about it, too, ington girls sm last. I saw that she wear and belt than w. “Smoke, Come on " Lou urged ° “Why you stliy! Alter-dinner is the time—or Just before bed.” % have one now.’” “If 1 do, it won't They're vile Here's som She sprung the suap of “Egyptlan,” she said, r heel and striking a ma hand shone pink for a m match flame was w; clgarette was left glowing. three matches to get under he “We Washington girls day.” Genie draw 1t hitbj Iy, ¥ en the you believe meet and smol other's houses and they don't particularly hige it, only from the men.” “Did it make you learned?” 1 asked. : *Oh, we ali go through the mill," laughed the smart girt “I didn’t, lustered the artist with a mighty puff. “Never feazed me. It's par- adise, snd was from the beginning.” Y “She’s at the perlod now wher she likes people to know that she smokes, and she thinks part of the performance i to get her feet above her head. After a while you get so that you'd rather smoke than have it known. Lou's game, though She's going to be the real thing in time." “She pretends that I'm her pupil,” suld Lou. - “Well-and when did you first taste the ‘weed, my lamb."" sald Genée. 8o it has come to pass that a ‘Washing- ton soclety girl has come to San Fran- «¢Isco and has taught a native daughter &:1'&.“';0* blowing rings. The East may slck when you R o, e Nobody thinks anything of it now, ex. ) WITT the Qlese of This Qentury Withess the Rdopticn of ' Eurcpean Qustoms, the Use of Tobacco by All Women? ter ones than I ad broke and fiva- ou b is Hospita &ealih of Li jtung Chang. sritene witle thé: rations pittente ptid to them for arply sapplics. “He would n.rice v the Goverpment tof at an enotous grofit, and me rake-aff.on all other -supplies fygw to the téps of a1t poldiers in” the"Pechill prov Then he wis f supsenty’ of the toni-hoirs a lang di tanve aroupg ihe Gulf ot BiE and ‘there “was dothmg ~mean about the siream wf gold that poured into his strongebox through this ‘chansiel. 18 his lang been motdrious *igt one of the methods he employed was fmport large quantities of goods thri his a s without the payment of.a « of duty. 1 then sell the moods: at a round figure to his countrymen. Th! fethed of money-making finally involved the old gentleman in trouble, charges were*mads against him and he came near losing his offictal kead; but hs power was t0 gredt “nd bis real serviees te ihe state were so valuable that he was aimost in- vulnerable in spite of the many enemies who have always beon ready to accuse him. There was once a Viceroy named Twel- Kwo-Fan, who was sald to have died without leaving & single enemy behiad him. for, according to his catirtcal erun- trymen 8: had killed them al. while he was alivd. Early In his political career Li Hung Chang Is said to have .ollowed this Hlustrious example, but for man; rm- hé has heen too powerful .o thin! t aor;n while to pay the slightest at- teiition to aly pocketed, & hi his’ riv ufl those who werd so seives thiat he couid not faflict personal v