Holbrook argus., 1905-11-25
READ IN PuFFs OF SMOKE.
Character of Tobacco Users Made a
 Scientific Study by Girl.

ulidueipHid soClely SHl, WuO uaS seen more than one season, has made study of the personal idiosyncracies of smokers, as they serve to indicate character, and finds it as interesting and as full of science as the reading of character in handwriting or by any of the other numerous methods.
 "You can use this science," says the girl, ito find out good deal about a man even before he has been intro- duced to you, by watching him smoke on hotel porch or similar place. The signs are sometimes obscured by the emotions under which the smoker hap pens to be laboring at the moment, so you want to catch your subject when it is in a normal condition.
 "The specimen who grips the butt of its cigar tight between its teeth, not taking it out much even when it 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 tete-a- tete Irritation 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 out of his mouth frequently to turn it around and look at it. He is good fellow, but little slow. You can do a good deal with him, not because he is weak, but because he is open to ar guments and impressions. He's not ex- actly timid, but it's generally easy to bluff him. The man who bites his ci- gar 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 first man, but not so self-centered, not such a trampler of other peoples rights-in fact, he's a higher order of animal.
 hC huh W hO Idil L hCCp llS ClSdl lighted is apt to be a sentimentalist, but he's jolly and companionable, too, in many cases, and well worth carry ing matches for. He's not given in fir tations unless he's pretty much in ear nest, and he's the sort of man you're apt to feel sorry for afterward if you find he meant more than you did.
 "That the man who wears his cigar at a heaven-pointing angle is vain and conceited 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 of the tilted cigar he is to be classed with the tenacious family. If you want to please him and sway him to your will give him plenty of admiration and let the idea of what you want appear to come from him.
 Its equally matter of course that the humdrum, commonplace, practical man always cuts off the end of his cigar with much care, always sees that it smokes evenly, always con- scious of his expensive enjoyment. He may have other attributes, to be sure, than that of painstaking-and sometimes paincausing-care, but it's harder to see them through his smoke He's apt to be tiresome sticklef for the conventionalities, but he may be a pretty good fellow, too. Only, if he's selfish, his selfishness is of a most mean and unttractive sort. You see, I don't profess to have the science down fine, yet, but such rules as I've given are reliable.-Philadel phia Record