The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-10-23
FASHIONS IN CIGARS.
Popularity Of the Dark Brands
Small Sizes the EayOrites.

Small Sizes the Favorites.
As in everything else that can be bought
and sold there are fashions in cigars. Gig
arettes and tobacco, and the tastes and
likings of mer for particular flavors and
bouquets change with the lapse OF years.
Only in the case OF anything in the form
of tobacco. the fashions change slowly and
are hard TO trace. for the reason that
the lower class. consuming by far the
greater bulk, will take anything cigar
shaped and the common phrase, "a good
see gar" means simply whatever Will
"oraw' and waste itself away in smoke.
Nevertheless there Is ample evidence that
within the last ten years change IN the
popular taste has been slowly coming over
American smokers. The dealers notice it.
and each year now they lay in altogether
direren. stocks from what they used 10.
Gradually yet surely the discriminating
smokers are coming back 10 the dark
cigars of fifteen years ago. A dealer now
sells three dark cigars where he sold TWO
several years back, or in 1898 and 1894.
This is popular prejudice in favor of the
cigar approaching b,ackness more than
II Is TO anything else. due to the idea that
a higher flavor is found In them. As
matter OF fact. color has peally little TO do
with the strength OF a cigar. IN Ninety
nine out OF every hundred that are made
the filler" or the major part OF the cigar.
is of precisely the same tobacco, without
reference 10 the hue OF the wrapper"
Experts say that averaging up all grades
the effect OF the light cigar with greenish
spots is more pronounced on the system
than that OF the darker and supposedly
stronger However this may be. the
spotted cigar is yielding in popularity
70 the colorado maduro. or even the ma
duro.
Another change that has been noticed Is
the increase in consumption of Tampa and
Key West cigars and the reduced call for
cigars of Havana make This began 10 be
marked before the Cuban war set in with
all its force. so il cannot be due 10 the
present difficulty in getting Havana
brands. The truth is that the famous old
DAYS OF the mild Havanfah." celebrated
in song and story. have gone by. IL Is fear
Ell never 20 return. Nevertheless, Havana
tobacco has rot lost it's vogue. the cigars
mentioned as most popular being ali Of
Havana stock. Domestic tobacco has new
er come largely into use for the good
grades. and the supply Is mainly utilized in
the production or "iives,'' two for Eve"
ard three for i've"
In size the small cigar Is supplanting
the larger ones for general smoking When
business in New York was a lelsurely az
fair uer had time 10 appreciate the flavor
OF a gooA-sized fat cigar, OF both halk
trade, in the hurry and srurry Of morn
ing and afternoon. the quick smoke" a
little cigar that is usually pufTed hardly
.hree-quarters through and then thrown
away, Is the fashion. In his home at
night. or N his club the man who knows
smokes" In nine cases out OF ten takes
up pertecto or a reyaha especial that
scans something Ike those OF IN. old
times. but for use in the day the concna
is the cigar Of the moment. and more Of
these are sold than Of all the Others.
7. You know where - 90 yon car buy a
cigar for a cent I'm New York Millions
OF thu "three for FIVE are sold On the East
49,. Prom his poiHt re rricex range
up 20 s. ~ fcr a single smoke Cigars
are actually sold ar this figure In tais CITY.
rnou ga ffSv 81 DSs show thssr value in
,ha smoking. despite their aroma. Fifty
cents buys Just aeou. as COED cigar as
can pa purchased Recently there has
coma about a change IN the prices ruen are
wiling 70 nay for these luxuTsss- The
"Fhrse FOR a quarter" has taken the place
os ne 'twafer" and the rsn who used
70 think nothing % spending = cents for
each cigar now get tao for that amount
OF money. Where 81 hundred used 10
be pad Sc s. or s. Is now The figure
In cigarettes tire fashion Is for ,ae mild
est and nzhtest Virginia leaf ~ nothsng
elss IS popular Smoking toaaccos are
lEatsr mixtures t&an they Gsf1 20 o..
and getting }igater each year FeTk91e IS
Used rS0re and more. and IN larger trepor-
tlanz- The tsvoritc mixtures nave pe-aque
"a their foundations then Virginia and
Havana and finally a VERY lltfle Turkish
SEX ensy-siye cents FOR quarter % a pound
Is about as high as the average MAJ viii
pay for these. There "a a very deisc!oGs
an1 aroma sc ztr* r@s ecssscrvo On ssA@ -
several places n New York. costing 8,
a rssa~fsr mound bat Il Es seldom &ouEns
.. eept by foses gzeTs.