The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-12-15
FEW GOOD JUDGES OF CIGARS.
Tho Work OF the Imagination In
smoking-An Old Doctors 8.
Confession.


smoking-An Old Doctors
Confession.
A tall young man Of rather dudish
appearance was leaning on the cigar
case in an old-established Broadway
tobacco store talking to the owner,
when a reporter entered. The young
man had evidently been there for
some time, and had said great deal
more than his listener cared to hear.
There was look of WEAKNESS and i'm
patience upon the proprietor's intelli-
gent face, which gave way to one Of
relief as he turned to wait on several
new customers who came in with the
reporter. He attended to the wants Of
each with such apparent deliberaton
that the young man. seeing there was
little chance of his being able to resume
the conversation, or monologue, for
some time, buttoned his short overcoat
and started out
THAT young fellow will force me TO
bounce him yet" said the cigar man as
soon as the loquacious customer had
departed. ''He has been coming in
here for the last month about three
times week for '15-center. and
each time he stops and talks about as
long as he can about how his cigar
smoked, and how that one did not suit
him, and how he could tell q good cigar
on sight, and all that sort Of thing, un.
til am ready to fall asleep"
"You do not consider him connois-
seur. thenp"
"Well. l should say not A compe-
tent Judge Of cigars is hard to find
The longer l am in tho business the
more | am convinced that there Is no
article in the world which men think
they know so much about. but in reali-
ty know so little of, as cigar. feel
perfectly safe in the saying that not
one man in hundred can tell good
cigar when he sees it, or even when he
smokes it. Oh, of course. you smokers
won't admit this to be true but it is.
all the same. Don't imaane that
have an exalted opinion of my knowl-
edge of the subject. l have been in the
business over twenty years, and yet |
would not venture to assert with any
degree of assurance whether cigar
was domestic or an Havana.
1.-THE imagination works almost as
extensively in the smoking Of II cigar
as il does in the construction of novel.
| have proven this to my own satisfac-
on again and again. Sometimes, just
for the fun of the thing, ! put II few
'two-for-a-quartcrs' in the 5-cent- box,
and then watch the look OF disgust that
comes over the faces of the patrons of
that box rs they light these expensive
brands. Sometimes they will actually
throw the more costly cigarsaway. On
the other hand, I've seen the two
for-a-quarter' customer enjoy the
aroma of '5-cent straight which for
a joke Ihad put in his favorte box.
THE popularity of certain cigar
depends upon the smokers liking for
that flavor. To obtain various flavors
manufacturers have secret cOmbina-
nations of tobaccos. and these are as
numerous as the combinations of the
notes of the music scale. A sample
OhO 10 Cuhay iVuuid HUI oiu hAn-
vana seed or Sumatra wrapper. An
honest 10-cent cigar is made up of
Connecticut. Pennsylvania, or Wiscon-
sin binder with an Havana filler and
Havana or Sumatra wrapper. Havana
seed is the seed of Havana tobacco
grown in this country. A mild form OF
imposition is to mix the Havana filler
with domestic tobacco. Few smokers
or dealers know the difference. There
is no business in which good name is
worth more than in mine. A place
that has the reputation Of handling
good stock can sell almost anything.
Taste in cigars is most deceptive, and
q dozen men would have as many diff.
ferent opinions on the same weed.
Hence It Is almost impossible to sell 81.
gars on their merits. Many are sold
simply on the advertising they re-
o~iva " Near YnrL Tsr;hnoe