The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-10-09
THE DUDES CIGARET,
Ii Kills, but There's Millions In It.

'.Have you any cigarets, Mr.. Drug
Store Man?" a dude asked a North
side drug store.
ANY kind you wish"
'Fll take a package of Mignonet
Bouquet"
well, we haven't any by that anne,
but here is the next thing to it. These
are called IN never forget my sweet
heart E"
'I'll try those" said the thin-legged
young man, and as he balanced shin
ing pair of glasses upon a long and
prominent nose he gave several puffs
at the sample of the new brand, glanced
admiringly at the pale face reflected
behind the cloud of smoke in the look
ing-glass, and went his way, gayly
whistling the air to the latest love-
song.
The prescription clerk came out from
behind his window and looked at the
retreating figure in contempt. COB
serve" he SAID, show the youth adj
mired himself as he puffed away in
front of the glass. Well, l dare say
the tobacco sickened him, but he
smokes because it looks well. pre-
sumo ne wears glasses for the same
reason"
You have no right to complain, :"
said the proprietor, trade would not
be half SO good for US if the dudes did
not smoke. You might as well tell the
women to stop eating morphine and
dispense with cosmetics. Suppose they
did. what would become of our occu-
pations? We might have to turn in
and do what those men are doing out
there-scrape the streets. It's all for
the best. The dude smokes cigarets,
and while he does he patronizes the
tobacco case. After awhile he gets a
cough and goes to the doctor, and
comes to us with a prescription. He
thinks he has fatal disorder, and so
we get the best of him again"
THAT may be so," said the clerk,
deiectedly, ''but in the meantime he
has married rich girl and is prepar-
ed to lead life of ease while more
sensible men are rolling pills.
If you want to catch onto a rich
girl," said the proprietor. 'you oughter
go and hire out as a coachman. In that
case you'd have to get used to cob
pipe Ia Carlisle, that is until you
could stand in with the family and find
out where the old man kept his Havan-
as
'You don't mean to infer that dudes
are the only people who smoke ciga-
rets. do you?" reporter asked.
mo; they are the largest customers.
Some are consumed by young boys and
women. The dude and the cigaret
seem made for one another, and the
trade in them-I mean cigarets-de-
pend upon the crop of dudes. In Chi
cago there must be large mum bers of
these silly young men, for the annual
sale of cigarets is immense. A whole
sale dealer told me recently that at
least 100, 900, 200 of them were sold by
the firms he could name on his fingers
ends. 1t is a question whether the
dude was called out by the cigaret or
whether he originated the cigaret. The
first cigarets were made for the trade
about ten years ago, up to which time
the tobacco and papers of which they
were made were sold separately, and
those who smoked them made them
for themselves. Since then machinery
has been invented by which they can
be made in large quantities. Since the
goods began to be sold in ready-made
| packages the trade has shifted, it APP
pears, from the confirmed smokers over
to dudes and beginners, the old smok-
ers preferring cigars, because they are
made of better tobacco and have none
of the poison contained in the cigaret-
paper This enters into the blood,
makes the face pale, settles upon the
lungs, and gives birth to a hacking
| cough"