248 SNUFF-TAKERS. 
when travelling through the country and stopping at farm- 
houses, if I used tobacco—as a hint to offer them some, and 
it was a pleasure to comply, and receive the thankful smile 
of an appreciative heart.” ; _ 
In other parts of the country the habit of snuff-taking is 
confined principally to old ladies, who use any kind, either 
black or yellow, and who prefer themselves the cheaper kinds. 
SNUFFERS. 
But few varieties are used, and there seems to be but little 
taste manifested in the selection of the “dust.” Foreign 
varieties are used only to a limited extent, being chiefly con- 
fined to those of transatlantic birth and tastes. The custom 
of chewing and smoking seems to be more popular with 
the male sex than snuff-taking, and one rarely finds a man 
addicted to the latter habit, unless it be one somewhat 
advanced in years. 
Stewart in his admirable paper on snuff gives much 
useful information in regard to the universal custom of 
using it as well as its origin and distinguished uses of the 
great sternutatory. 
