Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-27
TOBACCO USERS.
Every Smoker Has His Own Peculiar
Notions.

Smokers used TO be rarity for the
excellent reason that the man who
smoked in the latter part of the 18th
century was treated about like the
fellow who was mean enough to burn
an orphan asylum, and if he smoked
at all. he smoked in his own apart
ments. blowing the smoke up the
chimney.
To-day, however. smoking is so COM
mon that the man who does not burn
tobacco in some form is a rarity
Man is a funny animal. and nothing
is more remarkable than the queer
ways he applies himself To smoking
Occasionally you find what might be
called an omnivoroas smoker one who
can enjoy cabbage leaves as much as
Nuelta Abajo leaf. and who can get
as much satisfaction out OF cigar
cite as out of a pipe.
But the average smoker is fastidious
and critical, and nothing will do but
that he must have things gust so
The dealer hands HIM a cigar box
and he looks over its contents with
discriminating eye He has the dark
est or the fightest cigars, and out OF
49, AeseiAGs may ht Sio StIht as peas, ne
selects with care Ii single cigar. seeing
IN :, or believing he sees in it, quail
ties that separate il from its brethren.
The pipe smoker is worse When he
buys 9pipe it is an event. 1t may be
brlar. meerschaum, a cob-but he
has - have certain shape. A little
difference of a sixteenth of an inch in
drop of stem bothers him rs much rs
the difference in drop Of gunstock on
shotgun used by Il professional trap
shooter worries that individual
IL he smokes a meersehaum he COW
ers It with a kid cover and his soul is
wrerched for months upon months lest
his hands touch the coloring bowl of
it.
He tries all manner of tobaccos He
smokes dark mixtures and light curly
cut. He buys sliced plug and granu-
lated tobaccos, some in round tins.
some IN square boxes, some in Fat
packages and some in oiled papers
Every week or so he tries Il new to-
baeco-some weird mixture that the
manufacturers are pushing.
Then he begins adding things TO the
mixture himself. Maybe he adds a lit
two sorts of canned tobaccos. Maybe
he gets long green" from the Ken
tuckI or Tennessee fields and mixes it
VITA other stuff, adding little rum to
make 1t mellow.
There's no stopping him when he
reaches this stage, ard you see him
every day almost with some new
brand or blend, half of it alfalfa. part
Imitation perique made in Mexico. or
some such mixture that he says don't
burn his tongue
The cigarette smoker is another
queer fellow. Generally speaking. he
can get uniform cigarettes in sealed
boxes under names. but he keeps
charging brands until he gets one that
suits HIM. Then he changes again.
ana the pipe smoker wonders at this.
seeing that all cigarettes taste alike.
ne may get fancy for the Mexican
or french cigarettes that are made
VITA crlmped instead of pasted seams,
anu that once lighted burn without
dfttt until the whole is an ash.
lie may elect to make his own cigar
cites, in which ease he becomes as
much fanatic on tobacco as the
pipe smoker. and at some time or Other
ne puys a cigarette roller to carry in
ms vest pocket, but somehow he tires
OF it and rolls his cigarettes by hand
again.
lou might meet a hundred smokers
Oh The street, ON the platforms of cars
OF elsewhere, but no two would have
Tue same taste in tobacco. all of which
places The smoker apart as a queer
sort OF person-about as funny an ami
MAJ as you can usually find roaming
about-Galveston News.