The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-06
CIGARS LIKE LEAD PENCILS.
The Thin Shape Comes Into Fashion-Costs
Just as Much as o Fat Cigar.

" ~ NhuSh ac " Eut SHbOs
"The latest fashion in cigars" said Q
dealer, "is a shape that resembles a lead
pencil In length and thickness. All the
cigar manufacturer are getting them
out, and the longer and thinner they are
the more people like them.
at seems as II the emokers were trying
to get as little for their money as possible.
There's a popular belief just now that the
less tobacco there is in a cigar the better
the tobacco must be in quality.
There's no getting away from the fact
hat the new lead pencil cigars have a lot
Of style to them and are more attractive
than the big kind that bulge out In the
middle. I notice that most Of the men who
buy them are particular about their per-
sonal appearance and want everything they
use to have character to 1t.
Your middleaged New Yorker who dates
back to the days when there was nothing
doing above T~wenty-third street would
nevey bother with such short smokes as
these new tangled ones. One Of these New
Workers came in the other day with a
younger man who tried to get him to take
one of the 'epicures,' as they call them.
They are just as expensive as the big ones.
by the way, sometimes more expensive.
NOJ vi youI uic, bdio tuc OIQcT HldUt
I'd lave to keep the band on that tooth
pick to show l wasn't smoking a Pittsburg
stogie. When I smoke n cigar I want a
up babies on And he picked out an i'm
ported Rothschild as black as ebony.
'That the long, thin cigars are distinctly
a new fashion Is shown by the fact that they
can only be found at the shops that have
the most exclusive trade.
"A lot OF men who have stuck to one
kind Of cigar for years don't know that
there are fashions In cigars, but the styles
change just as the styles in shirts do.
Awhile g it was petit duo size, the OPP
posite extreme from the present fashion.
The petit due is very short and very fat,
coming suddenly to a sharp point at the
lighting end. Its oddity made IL popular
for a time, but it fell OUT Of favor because
it Is hard to hold between the lips ana it's
shortness and thickness make 1t an uncom-
Portable, hot smoke,
Another shape that has lost much Of its
popularity is the rough looking. loosely
rolleo breva which originally came bundled
in lots Of fifty w TAP in a corn musk tied
so that they usually had the curve Of a tallow
candle on a hot day.
THE trouble with them was that they
burned too, freely ana were tremendously
strong besides. The Cubans who have
smoked them for generations stano them
all right, but such a furnace OF nicotine is
pretty strong for American stomaaha.
"A friend OF mine who travels tella me
that in the middle West, especially in the
smaller cities, the size Of cigars increases
with their cost. once you get past the Ave
cent domestics. II you ask for a small
cigar the dealer will think you mean a cheap
one and hand out a box OF three for q quar-
ter.
"His ten cent straights will be slightly
larger and the two for a quarter kind bigger
still. The twenty-five oenters are twice as
cipally for exhibition purposes, Ia something
wonderful TO behold.
AT that rate these lead pencil affairs
that we sell for from fifteen cents to a
quarter wouldn't bring more than three
for o niokel.'