Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-10-31

Users Know Them Apart, and They
Are Much Misused.
Whenever the average untutored to
bacco lover wishes to Indicate to his
enyious friends t'at he Is in possession
OF a cigar of the first quality. he usual
~ says that he has perfecto BY
porfecto he means the best cigar oh
tainable and as a rule he applies the
name to all products of the Havana
factories. But in truth, declares an
intelligent writer in the Kansas City
Journal, good many cigars that
never saw Havana are genuine per
fectos, and good many made in the
most famous factories of the Cuban
capital are not. The word, as mat
ter Of fact, does not refer to the quality
of a cigar at all. 1t is simply a term
used to describe the shape. \ perfecto
may cost 81, and it may cost 90 cents.
There are half dozen cigar terms
thus misused by the average smoker,
and there are several times as many
words of the same sort whose mean.
ing he is utterly unable to fathom.
What native corn fed smoker, for in
stance. knows the difference between
a panetela and Reina Victoria? And
how many know whether there is
real difference between maduro and
an oscuro: Yet all Of these terms are
the common property of cigar makers
all over the world. Like many cigar
brand names. they are of Spanish orr
gin, but the wanderings of Havana
tobacco and Cuban cigars have taken
them into all countries and all Ian
guages.
The great ma jOrity of cigars are put
up fifty in a box, with thirteen on the
top row, twelve on the row next to the
top, thirteen on the next and twelve
on the bottom row. When a londres
cigar is packed 100 in a box in two
bundles tied with ribbon, 1t becomes
a Reina Victoria. which is Spanish for
Queen Victoria. Early in the late
queens reign a Cuban manufacturer
called the resultant bundle after Great
Britain's sovereign. The name has re-
manned ever since
The word perfecto is term indicat-
ing certain shape in cigars A per-
fecto is a smoke having what is gen.
orally called the cigar shape"--that
is to say, it is swelled near the end
which is lighted and tapers gradually
down r. the point, or head. The end
Of cigar which a smoker puts in his
mouth is known among cigar makers
as TIE head. The other end. that
which is lighted, is called the tuck.
When, as often happens in perfecto,
the tuck is very small, it is called a
needle tuck or Gather tuck. All others
follow these lines more or less closely.
A thin, straight cigar, With little
more thickness in the middle than at |
the tuck, is called a panetela. The |
average panetela is slightly longer
han a perfectO, though the matter Of |
'ize has nothing to do with the shape.
Panetelas are esteemed because they t
burn more regularly and are usually |
better because more easily made. The
7irtue of the perfecto is that its small
# tuck lights more readily, and its
more artistic curves give it greater
beauty
A londres is a sort Of cross between
he perfecto and the panetela 1t is
perfecto from the head to the thick
st part. and from there on to the tuck
t Is betwixt and between. Usually !
he slope from the thickest part to the
uck has a gradual curve. The tuck
s rule is as large as that of pane
ella.
partegas Is cigar shaped much
Ike londres. except that the slope
rom the thickest part to the head is
suauy not so rounded. 1t is shape
OF now as fashionable as it used to
e. and even when cigars are genuine
artegas the box is seldom stamped
nth the name.
conchas is small blunt cigar. AS
rule 1t Is very satisfactory smoke,
no usually it lasts as long as q per-
ecto This is because that thin tuck
the latter burns down rapidly. The J
pera is very small cigar of any
tandard shape. 1t derives it's name
rom the fact that it is designed for
short smoke between the acts, and
cry often 1t is called on entr -acte. The
revas is large. clumsy cigar. good
" an hours putting The largest size
all Is the Napoleon. Sometimes Ha-
ana NapoleonS are six or seven inches,
length. The blacker ones are posi-.
vely terrifying.
The better grades of cigars are usu.
ly made in, several shapes and sizes.
here may be, for instance the La
Tor de Habana perfectos, the La Flor
Habana panetelas, the La Flor de
abana operas, the La Flor de Ha-
ana partegas and the La Flor de Ha.
ina conchas, The label is the same
all of the sizes and shapes, but on
'e front Of the box the name of the
lape Is slammed .