The Forrest City times., 1905-09-15
READ IN PUFFS OF SMOKE.
Scientific Study by Society Bells.


 A Philadelphia society girl who has seen more than one season. has made a study of the personal idiosyncrasies of smokers. as they serve to indicate char acter, and finds il as interesting and as full of science as the reading of charac- ter in handwriting CT by any of the other numerous methods. says the Philadel- phia Record
 You can use this science" says the girl. ito find out a good deal about q man even before be has been introduced to you by watching him smoke on hotel porch or similar place. The signs are sometimes obscured by the emo- lions under which the smoker happens to be laboring at the moment, so you want to catch your subject when it is tn normal condition.
 The specimen who grips the brtt of It's cigar tight between it's teeth. not taking it out much even when il talks, is of the tenacious family. He is also aggressive and determined to get what he wants. regardless of the rights of others. If you have a tete-a-tete fir tation with this sort of man beware of making him want 10 kiss you unless you want him to, for once the desire gets into his head he'll never step to earn what you think about it.
 On the other side is the man who smokes slowly and takes his cigar out of his mouth frequently to turn it around and look at it. He is a good fellow, but little slow. You can do a good deal with him, not because he is weak. but because he is open to argu- ments and impressions. He's not ex- aetly timid. but it's generally easy to bluff him. The man who bites his cigar pretty hard. but twists it about ill his mouth and chews it more or less, is not quite so slow nor so easy to handle. He is tenacious. too. like the first man, but not so self-eentered, not such trampler of other peoples iiShts-in fact, he's higher order of animal.
 The man who can't keep his cigar .ighted is apt 10 be sentimentalist. eut he's jolly and companionable. too. in many cases. and well worth carrying matches for. He's not given to fiirta- tons unless he's pretty much in earn es, and he's the sort of man you're apt 10 feel sorry for afterward if you find he meant more than you did
 That the man who wears his cigar al heaven pointing angle is vain and foheeited goes without saying. but he s not always as weak as that implies. Hes sometimes the sort that makes his boast good. and if he ehews the end or the tilted cigar he is 10 be eiassed with the tenacious family. If you %ant to please him and sway him to NonI will, give him plenty of admira- tion and let the idea of what you waIt- appear to come from him.
 It's equally mater of course that the humdrum. commonplace. practical
 man always cuts eff the end of his cigar with much care always sees tbat 1t smokes evenly always conscious ot his expensive enjoyment He may have other attributes. to te sure than that of painstaking-and sometimes pain ca1sing-care. but it's harder to set ;hem through his smoke He's apt tC i be tiresome stickler for the conven
 'icnalties. but he may be pretty good fellow, too. Only. if he's selfish
 his selfishness is of most mean ant unattractive sort You see. l don
 profess to have the science down fine yet. but such rules as I've given ar, reliable"