Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-25
LEET-HANDED CIGAR SMOKERS
Variations in n Habit Well Nigh Uni
veFsaI Among Brain
workers.

Somebody began to, talk about the habits
OF man and then somebody else referred
to an old uncle of his who smoked pipe
upside down, ana then finally the talk
drifted around to cigar. smoking.
1t was polluted out that cigar smoking
had been a diversion Of the male human
animal since It was frst invented In 1t
he had developed curious traits
For instance, most men who smoke
cigars use their left hands I'm transporting
vehicles. Most men who smoke cigars
have too many serious uses for the right
hand to employ it In transporting the
lighted cigar.
Authors, writers. bookkeepers. lawyers,
statesmen. physicians and other outside
the pale Of actual muscle encouraging
labor are men whose right hands are
pretty steadily occupied. II they smoke the
cigar must be carried by the LEFT hand
while the right tolls with pen or pencil,
and this habit, formed by necessity, be-
comes second nature.
After dinner when the cigars are burning
you may observe any one of the smokers
leaning back on the left side OF his chair
with his left arm crooked at a comfortable
angle and the cigar slipping between his
lips at desirable intervals. Those facts
might lead to the inference that the left
side OF the mouth gets more than its right
full share OF the cigar, but such is not the
case. t..-
There are other classes Of men OF whom
these left handed revelations might not be
made and proved with the facility here
displayed. Motormen, conductors. cab
men, pilots, truckmen, masons and others
have little opportunity to smoke during
/ work.
When they do smoke. either hand Is good
enough for them. The smoking ambidex-
/ terity OF this class extends TO all pipe and
/ cigarette smokers whose labor is physical
/ in tho heavy sense OF the word.
To 90 sure a close observer will find the
left hand favored more or less by every
! class of smokers from Greenlands icy
/ mountains to the other place. The weaker
hand seems 10 want tho jon worse than
the other, and It manifests peculiar apti-
| tude for handling the weed unerringly. So
! cigar smoking may be regarded as a left
handed habit simple If not always pure
Then again, there IS the person who holds
/ his cigar IA peculiar positions. The ac-
| cepted rule IN this matter Is to keep the
/ lighted end away from the face and thus
minimize the danger of scorching the
mouth.
In the hollow between the thumb and
forednger with the lighted end pointed in
ward, IS one manner OF holding a perfecto
II Is decidedly bad way. II tends to hold
a man up TO suspicion and It robs him Of
| dignity.
A formal ana sensible way Is to follow
the method OF most cigar smoking men
hold the weed between the first and sec
ond fingers until It becomes 700 short for
comfort when the second finger and thumb
may take hold and carry the Job along to
its not distant conclusion.
Only men given to affectation hold their
cigars between other fingers than those
designated. and such men cannot be nu-
merous enough TO form a species, or the
official records would mention them. In
this monograph the habits Of the cigarette
smoker have not been disclosed for the
reason that men addicted to cigarette
smoking have no very serious habits
Pine smokers always smoke one way.
They draw the smoke IN and then blow Il
out Their manner OF holding and handling
The pipe is as interesting and varied as that
and not a BIT more.-New York Sun.