The sun., 1903-12-27
NO MORE PRETTY RIBBON TIED
BARGAINS FOR THEM.
They Know the Standard Brands and They
Buy Them, TOO-SOme Wives Even Try
TO Reform Stogie Smoking Husbands
Their New Tobacco knowledge.

smokes wrapped in foil, and they duck
the ribbon tied cigars with something ap-
preaching hauteur.
"The truth is that men are the only GUS
toners for bargain smokes around the
holidays, and all through the year, for
that matter. A woman will buy her hus-
band better box of cigars for gift than
he's used to smoking. There was an anus
ing woman of that sort in here yesterday,
"I want to get box Of cigars made Of
sure enough tobacco, for my husband,
she said to me.
"She said it without smile, and didn't
appear to be striving to be hum orous, and
so was somewhat puzzled.
AREN'T they all made OF tobacco,
ma amp asked her.
al think not she replied, emphatically.
In fact, am sure not. You would not
maintain, for instance, that stogies are
made of toba cco''
II had to sdestep that by making an
evasive reply.
My husband smokes stogies,' she
went on, and l am going to try to break
him Of the habit, even if have to buy his
cigars myself out Of my marketing money.
It's dreadful to have the fiat smelling as If
we never had anything to eat in the place
except corn beef and cabbage
"That was about as hard a wallop for
the stogie as l ever heard. Yet there are
milionaires in New York, and not stingy
ones, either, who smoke stogies only, be-
cause there is a certain quality Of rankness
In the things that makes hit with them.
There was a woman in here few days
ago who exhibited lot of craftiness in
buying box of cigars for her husband.
She knew the brand she wanted, cigar
that is manufactured in four sizes.
opened box of the largest size.
"'You have that cigar in a much smaller
size haven't you?' she asked.
Yes l replied, but most men like
big cigar you know, and the smallest size
is really not enough cheaper than this size
to make it worth while buying the little
ones
"'Oh, l am not worrying about the price,
she said, but do like to get to the theatre
once in while before the first act is over,
indeed | do.
This sounded pretty deep, and asked
her to eucidate.
We'll she said, its this way. My hus-
band is as fond of big cigars as you say all
men are, and that's just the trouble.
BY the tine we finish dinner it Is 7,30.
Then he lights an enormous cigar. 1t
doesn't make any difference whether we
have theatre tickets that night or not, he
must and will smoke that huge cigar down
to the very point where it begins to burn
his fingers before he will start. He stands
by his right and privilege to smoke at least
one cigar after dinner before going to the
theatre.
well, it's generally about ten minutes
past when he finishes his big cigar,
and then. even when we rush out Of the
house helter-skelter for the theatre, we
always get there dreadfully late. Alto
gether. our theatre nights are mess, just
on account of the big cigars my husband
will smoke. That's why am going to try
to train him into smoking the little ones.
Ingenious woman that, but if her hus-
band doesn't copper her little scheme by
smoking two of the small cigars instead of
the one big one before starting for the
the contrarness of the male brute!
Another woman who came in the other
day for a box of cigars for her husband
puzzled me for minute by asking, in
matter of fact tone. if | didn't have any
cigars witt sheet metal wrappers.
" Because she went on to explain, 1
believe that my husband is the champion
cigar smasher Of the world. He puts hand
fuIs of cigars into his pockets before leav-
ing the house every morning, and always
find them in flinders in his pockets when
he comes home in the evening
Il told her that l had mighty select
line of cigar cases in stock and that he
couldn't break his cigars if he carried them
III case.
him to carry his cigars in case, was her
reply, but it's no use. He says he'd as lief
carry a hod of coal downtown as a cigar
case did overcome his prejudice once:
He carried the case filled with cigars around
with him for four days. without ever open
ing it, When found it. on hanging away
his clothes, opened the case out of curl
osity The cigars in it had been reduced
to snuff,
The bluntest and most businesslike
woman | ever waited on, however, came
in a few days ago.
~ want, she said, walking determ!nedly
up to the counter, "a box of 100 OF the
best and the strongest cigars you nave;
three nice briar pipes and couple of
pounds of smoking tobacco.
Il showed her the goods, she took my
assurances as to their excellence, and then
she put her purchases under her arm and
started out Then she turned and showed
the first smile she had exhibited since she
came in.
she asked me, that these things will in
augurate an era of peace in my homer
That, too, was too profound for my
immediate grasping, but she went on:
Because don't know what l shall do
unless the white winged dove of peace
does flutter into my fiat windows pretty
soon My husband suddenly stopped
smoking about a month ago. because l
tried automatically to suggest to him the
advantages of combining his home smoking
to his smoking room
"Our home has been something awful
to contemplate since that evening He
mopes and moons around when he comes
home from the Office without word, When
he's not sitting with his head in his hands,
after dinner, he's raging and plunging
up and down the fiat tke a madman or
person with the St. Vitus dance, and the
people in the fiat beneath have complained
several times to the janitor.
"'He tries to read his newspapers upside
down and gnaws his mustache until it's a
sight He chews gum incessantly, and
when man friend comes in, smoking a
cigar, he sits and stares wolfishly at him
with scarcely a word during the entire
evening,
~ know what ails him, OF course. He
wants to smoke, but he is too stubborn
to go back on his word ! begged him
the other evening to ret himself some more
cigars and pipes ant, tobacco and things
and to smoke anywl ere and all over the
fiat
"'"After the way ,u jumped on me for
Srn, kipu in tha hall I woul1n't huv another