St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-10-14
READ m PUFFs or SMOKE.
Character Of Tobacco Users Made 4
f scientiflc Study by Society
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A Philadelphia society girl who has
Sen more than one season, has made a
study Of the personal idiosyncrasies OF
smokers, as they serve todndicate char
acter, and finds 1t as interesting and as
full OF science as the reading OF charac-
ter in handwriting or by any of the other
numerous methods, says the Philadel-
phfa Record.
You can use this science" says the
girl, Ito find out good deal about
man even before he has been introduced
to you by watching him smoke ON
hotel porch or similar place. The signs
are sometimes obscured by the emo
tons under which the smoker happens
to be laboring at the moment, so you
want to catch your subject when it is
IN q. normal condition.
-. The specimen who grips the butt OF
Its cigar tight between its teeth, not
taxing 1t out much even when it talks,
Is Of the tenacious family. He is also
aggressive and determined to get what
nc wants, regardless of the rights OF
Others. II you have tete-a-tete fir
tation with this sort of man beware Of
making him want to kiss you unless
you want him to, for once the desire
gets into his head he'll never stop to
learn what you think about it.
On the other side is the man who
smokes slowly and takes his cigar cut
7uf 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-
nents and impressions. He's not ex-
sctiyz timid, but it's generally easy to
bluff him. The man who bites his
cigar pretty hard. but twists it about
IN his mouth and chews it more or less,
is not quite SO slow nor so easy to
handle. He is tenacious, too, like the
stlrst man, but not SO sself-centered, not
such a trampler Of other peoples
isaghts-iH fact. he's / higher order of
animal.
The man who can't keep his cigar
lighted is apt to be a sentimentalist.
tu; he's Jolly and companienable. too,
In many cases, and well worth carrying
matches for. les not given to flirta-
tons unless he's pretty much in earn
est: and he's the sort Of man you're apt
to feel sorry for afterward if you fad
he meant more than you did.
u That the man who wears his cigar
al heaven-pointing angle is vain and
oonceited goes without saying, but he's
not always as weak as that implies.
He's sometimes the sort that makes
his boast good, and if he chews the end
5of the tilted cigar he Ia to be classed
with the tenacious family. If you
want to please him and sway him to
your will, give him plenty of admira
ticn and let the idea of what you warlt
appear to- come from him.
3 ssItss equally matter of course that
the humdrum. comn9cplace,i practical
man always cuts Of the end Of his
cigar with much care, always secs that
il smokes evenly always conscious Of
his expensive enjoyment. he may have
other attributes, to he sure, than that
Of painstaking-and sometimes pain
causing care, but it's harder to see
them through his smoke. He's apt to
be a t.resome stickler for the conven-
ticnalities, hut he may be a pretty
good fellow, too Only. IL he's selfish,
his selishness is of most mean and
.unattractiye sort You see, don't
profess to hare the science down fine,
,et, but such rules as I've given are
reliable"