The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-07

| cites is that they are too tightly rolled;
| but, on the other hand, cigarette workers
! vary in skill. Not all of them attain the
knack Of putting just enough tobacco
! into cigarette, and it is a question
| whether q uniform machine-made excel
| lence is not better than an uncertain
! quality, ranging from perfect to very
faulty. A good hand will roll 1000 cigar
| cites day, but these experts employ
| workers less skilled to put on the mouth
pieces The roller gets 81 a thousand for
his work and probably pays his assist
| ant So a week, for the details upon Which
| he cannot afford to waste his time. All
| Of the handmade cigarettes are hand
| packed, sealed and stamped at lightning
| rate, all the processes being accomplished
| by one machine. 1t is easy to distinguish
the handmade from the machine-made
| product, for the handmade cigarettes are
| oval instead Of round, and the paper box
has rounded rather than square corners.
The price would work the difference
| even nothing else did. The ordinary
machine-made cigarette sells for cents
| box often while the fine handmade
| cigarettes bring 25 cents. Girls are en-
| ployed almost altogether for cigarette ma
| chimes, not only because they are def
| and quick, but because they stand the
| monotonous routine with more steadiness
and patience than men. Now however
| the cigarette girl is a scarce art Gle and
manufacturers are breaking In bows for
the work because it is almost Impossible
| to obtain as many girl workers as are
needed. So many more attractive fields
| OF work are opening to women that the
| girls are turning their back u,on tie
cigarette factories which were their old
standby. In the New York factory men
toned before many of the girls have be-
side them young boys to whom they
no he hyrCf
agement expects to be obliged to re-
cruit its force from these boys. The su-
perintendent says resignedIy that there
will be at least one advantage in this
| change. The boys will not shake" the
factory when they marry and conse-
quently the supply of experienced hands
will be more constant.
AS matter of fact, almost all seen
tific men who have investigated the sub
ject will back up the superintende
statement that the cigarettes i'll fame
is due to the smoker rather than to any
thing contained in the cigarette itself
A famous English scientist, In a recent
paper upon tobacco, affirmed that both
the cigar and the pipe are in themselves
more injurious than the cigarette-that
the tobacco contained in cigarettes is
the purest obtainable. AMI that the rice
paper, almost unive rsalIy used on c'gar-
cites is in no way poisonous or harmful.
There are, literally no ba1 Cigarettes
II bad is to be taken in the sense of
impure. The popular impress on that
opium and other injurious elements en-
ter into the composition of the cigarette
is a mistaken one. Even if such treat
ment of the tobacco were desirable for
any reason, the process would be too ex-
pensive. The only difference in cigarettes
Is in the quality of the tobacco Usei and
in its blending. The cheap Ann rican to-
bacco cigarette is as pure as the exE en-
sive Turkish, Egyptian or Russian cigar
elite, but is made of inferior tobacco, or,
at least, of tobacco which the public
thinks inferior to Turkish tobacco Even
the American cigarettes have a little
Turkish tobacco added to them in the
blending, but the proportion is very small,
on account of the expense Of the import
ed tobacco.
The Turkish, Egyptian and Russian
cigarettes sold in this country are made
here, but from Turkish tobacco.
which is expensive even in its own ter
ritory, and upon which a duty of 80 cents
a pound Is paid here Turkish tobacco
grown in the different provinces differs
in quality and flavor, and according as
the varieties are blended the flavor of
the cigarette varies. Blending Is a fine
art, and each brand of cigarettes has
its own formula and its own distinctive
flavor although often the differences are
too slight to be appreciated by the
ordinary smoker The Virginia cigar
cites vary In flavor also. and for the
same reason, the tobaccOs from different
countries having app-eciable differences. I
and the predominance of tobacco from