El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-02

I Each man differs from his neigh Dor
in the manner he smokes. Some hold
the G. gar in the corner of the mouth
clenched between the teeth, and hardly
reno it until it is consumed to q
stump, while others constantly shift it
from one side to the other and hold it
| between their fingers.
A smokers moods and almost his
thoughts may be read by the position
of his cigar between his teeth. II he is
| in deep contemplation IF some pleasant
subject he will in nine cases out of ten
have his cigar q little to the side of his
mouth, and If he is feeling more than
ordinarily pleased the ashy end Of the
weed will reach up for his hat brim.
On the other hand, if his mood be
melancholy the cigar will hang loosely
in his mouth with downward slant.
f; Experts in the great American game
of poker have said they could tell just
what sort of hand the other fellow
held by the position of his cigar. When
it was inclined upward his hand was
good, of course, and when it was rolled
around in the corner of his mouth and
clenched between his teeth his hand
was only middling, but when he took
his cigar out of his mouth and held it
between his fingers while he played. it |
was time TO look out, for he had the
cards sure.
Thus cigar is made to gesticulate in
response to the smokers feelings. In
the mouth of an emotional man it ex-
presses a hundred different things, |
while with the stOical Individual its |
field Is considerably lessened, but it |
none the less conveys the expression Of |
the man. |
With the fellowship that exists
among smokers, there is also an ETH |
quette in the manner of rendering or |
q. 1irrh
pert smoker who offers a light holds |
his cigar near the butt end and tend |
ers the lighted end. The one accepting
the courtesy takes hold as near the fire
as the heat will allow, and when his |
light is secured hands it back butt end |
first. Thus the cigar is handled as lit |
tie as possible.
consumed, and to exchange it from
baud 10 hand would require handling
very near the butt, the recipient of the |
light does not take it in his hands, but |
takes hold of the. hand of the man |
offering the light, thereby steadying it |
sufficiently to obtain the fire
Between the cigarette aid the cigar
smoker the smokers fellowship exists,
but it is not as strong as among the de-
voices of the dusky beauties them
selves. The cigarette smoker is in a
class all by himself and many have re-
duced the smoking of the sc-called |
"coffin nails to fine art.
The confirmed cigarette fiend nearly
always inhales the smoke by blowing
into his lungs through his nostrils. In
halatiOn is said to be the shortest,
quickest and most direct route to the
cemetery that a smoker can make.
Cigarette smokers have more little
tricks that they do with their white
rolls than the cigar smoker INDUCES in.
They delight in pulling out a series of
rings and watching them float away, or
taking a lighted cigarette in their
only to open their mouths again and
show with great pride that they were
no. burned.
The confirmed pip -smo ker views the
cigar and cigarette-smoker with COM
To his mind they are ig-
norant of the greatest pleasures a
s moker can enjoy, because they h I've
no pipe like his to smoke. Many men
smoke a pipe at their Offices or at home
but always smoke q cigar on the street
These are not true pi pe-smokers. This |
individual smokes his pipe whenever
the desire to smoke comes to him.
The smoking of pipe is serious |
matter, and no lover of the pipe has |
ever allowed any one to treat it lightly |
in his presence without an argument |
Nor will he admit that any pipe in the |
world is the equal of his. He will con-
tend for hours that his particular pipe
has peculiar sweetness of flavor that
can not be surpassed and is unknown
to any other except man who has
broken in new pipe through a period
of years of smoking.
The pipe in question may be of the