Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-06

ing the other passengers get out on the
platform aud wait for the next train
But to return to the s"mi-cIviliZed to-
baccos and the barbarian tnbacconist The
scheme of weighing the paper and water
with the stun they sell for tobacco in the
higher class shops was not good enough.
Within recent years they have gotten on TO
the scheme Of package tobacco But do
they put II up in thin cotton bags as they
do here? Not much. You get a two-ouact.
package which consists Of an once of lead
foil and oiled paper, three-quarters Of an
ounce of water. and the remainder mix
ture.' l won't call It tobacco.
Il went into a new store once and asked
for one of the standard brands of American
Sranulatcd tobacco which you can buy any
where in the world from the Golden Gate
to the shores of Crete. No. we have not
that exactly, said the storekeeper, but we
have just the same thing put up in a little
different package Well, | oyerjoyed
at finding American tobacco in any sort Of
a package. but / was foxy and asked him
10 open 1t. There fell out OF the mass OF
tin foil what looked like a bit of rdvel Il
out Brussels carpet. When / suggested
mildly that that was not at all like what
was looking for. l told that Anyhow
1t was the best sort of tobacco made and
good deal better than you -tmeriarns are
in the habit of smoking Ain: that the
way TO get trade and keep st?
There were about three stores In Lon
don. far as l could discover that knew
what perique tobacco was. In those places
you had to pay 'alf crown; namely G2is
cents, for tin box that you can bay in the
States for quarter. one of these stores
was big semi Wholesale place down on
Moorgate street where they had the saving
grace of polttenesS along with some :oIer-
able tobacco. One of the SaleSren and |
figured a good deal over a MIXTURE and
finally made UP one from various tobaccos
that cost by the pound about - cents an
ounce. But you got it without he. water.
n W al "A "a
price The small American crowd that L
belonged TO took to IT kindly. and that
store did quite trade and put up the mix
ture as a regular thing.
But when you come TO cigars, there is
the place you burn up money II you
want to. The lo-cent straight is, of course.
unknown, the British empire does not
take to decimal system of coinage. You
can get a sixpenny smoke. meaning, of
course. 121s cents straight, which Is about
good rather rank 5-cenrer here
Cigars SO called. go all the way down to
a penny each. But they are not made for
| foreigners TO smoke. Like the o!d vaude-
vile joke. they mostly look like they had
skin disease and smell Ike a man shoeing
a horse t.H
'Of course. you can get good cigars.
Every brand of Havana is on sale. Bur
perhaps you don't have to pay for them.
You can get real good cigars for one al
six that is to say, 31@ cents each. Some
people can afford to smoke that sort. Others
can't But that is not the limit in cigar
smoking circles. They keep cigars there by
the vintage. just as they do wines. cer-
tain make of cigar from the tobacco of j
certain year is supposed to be better than
the same make of another year. But when
you get into dated cigars Of that sort they
run you from 10 cents each to S175. Per-
haps If you giving a luncheon TO some
man that you want to sell a large bill of
goods to, 1t may be worth while to throw
in couple OF those smokes after eating,
but for ordinary smoking-well, 1t is rath.
er out of the reach of the ordinary breed
of mankind.
1.-The tobacco trust from this side got
over there couple of years ago and fought
the old English manufacturers on Il grand
scale, giving away all sorts OF premiums,
a house and lot with a box OF cigars and Il
horse and buggy with a 0-cent package of
cigarettes. But the retailer was about the
only man who made anything out of the
fight and the Englioh and American COM
panies got together after losing a lot OF
money in the war and divided the territory
between them, and have been making up
their losses out of the consumer ever sirce-
Tobacco buying and smoking is bad enough
over here, but if you want health and harpi-
ness and peace of mind, don't try to bay
good smoke in England