The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-05-05
COSTLY CIGARS.
sone Are Sold at 81 Each-Three .
for 81 Is the Standard High.
Priced Cigars.

There are cigars that are sold at
two dollars each. The chief demand
for them is about the holiday season.
and such cigars are most commonly
bought to give away. These and other
very highly-priced cigars. such as sell
at $3.50 and one dollar apiece. come
in trim boxes containing five, or ten.
or 25. But while such cigars are most
ly imported and sold in the holiday
season, they may be found on sale and
more or less of them are sold the year
around. They are sometimes sold for
wedding gifts, and for banquets, and
for special costly dinners, where the
guests would be more likely to put one
of these cigars, when they were served.
in his pocket, as a souvenir of the oc-
casion, than to smoke it; for many of
these very costly cigars are very large.
and more of a smoke than a man might
want to take.
These very expensive cigars are OF
the finest and costliest tobacco, and
are made with the greatest care by
cigarmakers of the highest skill; there
are only a few men who can make
them at all, and these get Ply high
pay for their work. 1t might be that
the cost of the labor on the most ex-
pensive of these cigars would be Is
or 20 cents each. Nearly all of them
large. most of these costly cigars are
also graceful in shape. but. not all of
them are. There is, for Instance, two
dollar cigar, that is rather clumsy in
its outlines; it is longer than the or
binary big cigar. much thicker. and in
its general build a stubby, chunky
cigar. But. while one may or may not
admire its type, the cigar itself is made
with the utmost perfection of work
manship. There is. for further exam
pie, another costlier cigar that is big.
almost straight-sided and cylindrical
in form. and stubby at both ends; GER
tafnly not of a very beautiful model:
but the cigar itself simply perfect in
its form. The same is true of all these
costly cigars. Whatever the type may
be, homely or graceful in outline. the
workmanship displayed in the making
of them is uniformly faultless. and
not only is each cigar in every way per-
fectly made. but the cigars in n box
will be found to be in every way per-
fectly matched. These costly cigars
represent in fact the highest art in
cigar making.
Such cigars may be found in the
showcase. duly labeled. at one dollar
and SIPS and S1.50 and $1.75 and two
dollars, and there are some sold in the
ordinary way to smokers. There is
now and then a smoker who likes that
kind of a big. heavy smoke. and who
comes in and buys a two-dollar cigar,
and lights it up. The purchaser is
quite as likely to be somebody with
plenty of money who is feeling cheer
full over a good dinner. but while such
cigars are sold at retail, there is not
often occasion to hand them out to q
purchaser. AS a matter of fact, there
are not many men who pay a dollar or
more for a cigar. No matter how much
money a man has or how fond he may
be of smoking, he hesitates to pay a
dollar for a smoke. For that matter,
very good cigars can be bought for less
than a dollar apiece, and the vast ma
jority of the fine and costly cigars sold
are at prices below that. There are
cigars that are sold at IS cents. 65 and
60 cents each, and such cigars find
their way out of the showcase oftener.
But the sale of cigars at these prices
could by no means be described as COM
mon. Men do come in and buy cigars
at such prices and light them up and
smoke them; but still there is no place
where men run in as a common thing
and buy 60 and 75-cent cigars and fire
up on 'em as they would on stogies.
1t is not until n lower price still is
reached, in the 50-cent cigars, that the
costly cigar becomes an article of
comparatively common consumption.
And. indeed, so cents is about the top
notch price for cigars in the most ex-
pensive hotels and restaurants. High
er-priced cigars may be had. but half
a dollar for a cigar is about as much as
men often pay.
luxe tHcul dltOSctucT, says tue
New York Sun, there are a good
many cigars sold at half a dollar
apiece. and yet there are 10 sold for
less than that, say 40 cents and for
35. There are many cigars sold at
81 cents apiece, or three for a dollar;
such cigars are in some places articles
of regular and ordinary sales. 1t might
be said, in ~faetsstlat this is about the
standard tElZgfn high-priced cigars.
Then there are lsigars at 30 cents. of
which there nfd many sold, and then
comes the eigarsthat is. after all. the
one most CONNOLLY sold among cigars
that are described as costly or high
priced, and hat is the cigar Cor aguar-
ter of a dollar.
There are. of course. a great many
fine cigars sold for 90 cents and less,
and imported cigars range in price
down to ten cents apiece.
Curious Origin of F1nvOrs.
AmOpO tho most remorEah Ia pIimpccx