What the war was doing to the women.
A commuter on the Georgia Central Railroad, declared Atlanta women had peerless beauty, but beastly habits. When men in the smoking car lit up their pipes...
"...two beautiful girls of sweet sixteen...tossed their heads, and wondered [aloud] what the South was comming to, when gentlemen so forgot themselves as to smoke in the presence of ladies...every pipe was immediately hidden from the sight; but half an hour afterward...we noticed in mute astonishment the window hoisted, and the two heroines spurting their tobacco juice through the aperture with all the gusto and nonchalance of a couple of Jack Tars off a cruise."