The Beatrice Daily Express

FASHION'S LATEST FAD
Snuff Taking Is Now the Fancy of Ultra Smart Women:

Snuff taking is said to be the latest fancy among fashionable women in New York. Whether the grip is to any degree responsible for it is not known, but that disease is so indelibly identified with sneezing, whether produced naturally or artificially, that it seems as though there might be some relation between the two. Perhaps the habit of sneezing became so common while the grip was rampant that its victims, even after recovery, found themselves still wanting to keep it up. Snuff taking was of course the next step, the fact that all end of the last century fashions are in favor just now being another incentive.

Snuffboxes are, too, a dainty and as yet novel adjunct for one's dressing table and chatelaine, which, it is not to be wondered at, is a fresh inducement for the habit. The very finest snuff is used, and the way that some of the smart women have learned to use it is said to be very taking indeed, though to many, of course, even this is hardly compensation for the habit as a habit.

Only ultra smart women have as yet become snuff takers, just as only ultra smart women have ever indulged in cigarette smoking in the United States. It does not necessarily follow, however, as in some other things, that those of more conservative taste will follow suit. Leisure, lucre and laxity of standard to an unlimited degree are needed before one can become converted either to snuff taking or cigarette smoking. A striking thing about the present revival is that it appears to be confined to women. If men are turning their attention at all to snuff, they are keeping precious quiet about it and, at any rate, are not to be compared in numbers with the women who indulge in the habit. -New York Sun.