CIGARS LIKE LEAD PENCILS The Time Thin Shape Comes Commies Into Pu Fashion o Co Costs ts Ju Just t us Much as ns Fut Fat One The latest fashion In cigars said saida a a. dealer is a shape that resembles les lesl a l lead pencil In length and thickness All the cigar manufacturers are getting gettins get get- tins ting them out and the longer and thinner they are the more people like them It seems as us if It tho the smokers were trying to get as little for Cor their money as a's possible Theres There's a popular belief beller Just now that the less tobacco there Is In a cigar the better the tobacco must be in quality Theres no getting a. a away wa from the fact that the new lead pencil cigars hove have a l lot of ot style to them and are and are more attractive than the big kind that b bulge out In the tho middle I notice tI at most of or the much men who bU buy them theun thema a are ae e particular about their personal apr ap- ap r want everything they 1 I mat a the r t AS to r a new fashion I Iti ana own by the fact that the they can only be found at the shops that have hae the most exclusive trade A lot of men who have stuck toone to toone one kind of cigar for tor years dont don't know that th there re are arc fashions In cigars but the styles change just as as the st styles les lesIn In shirts do dok Awhile ago It was petit due size the opposite extreme from the present fashion The p petit due Is Is' ver very short and vcr very cry fat coming suddenly to a a. sharp point at the lighting g end Its oddity made It popular for a n time but it t fell JJ o out t of favor because It Is hard hart to hold between een the lips and Its shortness and thickness make it ft an uncomfortable hot hot smoke Another shape that has lost much of oC its Us popularity i ife Is the rough looking loosely rolled breva which originally came bundled In Jots of fifty wrapped rapped In a corn husk tied at b both th ends The Thc t tying bent the cigars so that they usually had the curve of or a a. tallow candle can can- die dle on a hot da day The trouble with them thorn was that they burned too freely freeh and were tremendously tremendously tre tre- strong besides The Time Cubans who have smoked them for generations generations generations genera genera- stand them all right but such a furnace of nicotine Is pretty prett strong for Arn American stomachs A friend of or mine who travels tells I Ime me that Ih In the middle west especially In the tb smaller cities the size of or cl- cl gars Increases with their cost once ou set past the five cent domestics If Ou ask for tor a small cigar cisar the tho dealers will think you OU mean a a. cheap one an and a box of oC three for tor a quarter Els Bs ten cent straights will be slightly slight slight- ly h and the two for a qu quarter kind bigger still The twenty five centeS cente'S are arc twice a. a as big and tho the box of or rn fY centers kept principally for purposes Is something won- won to behold A K that rate these lead pencil affairs af at- fairs that we sell seH for from fifteen c 0 nU a l Quarter wouldn't bring more for a nickel