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Show VARIOUS SORTS OF SMOKERS Young men, very young men. in ' (heir earlier smoking days like to keep the ash on a cigar as long as It will sta . Somebody has told them1 1 that It Is a mark of a sood clear for (1 to have an ash that does not cfuitt ble and fall off It is, at least, true that a long ash marks the cigar as one made with a long filler J The young man smoker who likes to I see the ash prow and hang on handles his cigar with great care, so as not to joggle it off. and if he smokes lip the whole cigar without dropping the n-Oi j he talnks that he has been smoking a good cigar and that he is a good smoker As he grows older the young man comes to be a smoker of another sort. He flickers the ash off his cigar jauntily. Then, as he grows older Still, he may come to be careless about the ash. or he may he engrossed engross-ed about other things, and that, as he smokes, he lets the ash accumulate, to drop maybe on his garments and ' j cover them with ashes. Still later in his life, the growni mature man is likely to knock the ash i off his cigar at frequent Intervals, to j keep it down short. lie smokes in a business-like way; he doesn't want the ashes scattered over him. But as ho grows older yet. when ho crimes to be an oldish man, he may come again as he smokes to keep the ash on the Cigar as long as he can You may see the old man praoking a Cigar thus, holding It carefully and smoking it slowly and contemplative ! I. looking at the ash occasional i and clearly interested in seeing It grow. Just as he did when he was young. Why he does thi now Is uncertain, un-certain, but, perhaps, it is because It brings back memories of his youth. Cleveland Plain Dealer |