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Since writing the above, I have met with a Ken- 

 tucky young woman who confirms the above ac- 

 count, but begs that it may not be taken for 

 granted that all the Kentucky girls are of this 

 sort, as some of them are strongly opposed to to- 

 bacco. 



On the other hand, I have learned from authen- 

 tic sources that in Philadelphia, the city of William 

 Pcnn, there is also a ladies' smoking-club, and 

 composed, like the former, of the creme de la 

 creme of society. 



How many other of our cities are thus dese- 

 crated? 



There is, if possible, a still lower deep to which 

 the fair sex has fallen, — the chewing of tobacco. 

 I learn from accredited witnesses that this desrrad- 

 ing habit is quite common among Western and 

 Southern women ; and a picture was given of one 

 of these chewers too revolting to repeat. Yet 

 these women, say the narrators, are sometimes 

 from the so-called respectable class. 



In heaven-wide contrast to such women and 

 to the clubs above named is an association of 

 young women, in a certain town, who passed reso- 

 lutions that they would not have intercourse with 

 any young man who used tobacco, or avIio was 

 not strictly temperate. At first, the young men 

 made themselves meriy over this, declaring that 

 they could stand out as long as the girls. But 

 these girls quietly held to their resolves ; and 

 gradually one young man after another broke from 



