The Tribune reports on a growing trend among Minneapolis women more than 100 years ago. You’ve come a long way, baby.

SOME WOMEN SMOKE

Cigaret Habit on the Increase, Ac-
cording to Downtown Dealers
in “Nails.”

The cigaret habit among women has recently become more pronounced than ever before in Minneapolis. Cigarets are easily obtained without embarrassment at drug stores and hotel cigar stands and the sale to women has increased astonishingly in the past few months. A year or two ago women seldom appeared in person to purchase them, but at numerous down town stores it is stated that women seem to have no hesitancy about asking for cigarets and the demand is good.

Inquiry reveals that modishly gowned women, actresses and a class of very young women make the strongest demand. Among hard-working girls and business women the habit apparently has not gained a foothold.

On one of the down town streets a sign is displayed in a drug store offering a bargain in cigarets and business has been brisk. The salesmen are at a loss whether to ascribe their sales to a sudden whim among women, or to women’s innate love of a bargain.

Pour me another one, Mabel. (mnhs.org photo)

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