Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1903 — Cigars in Muggy Weather. [ARTICLE]

Cigars in Muggy Weather.

Time, a muggy day; scene, a cigar store, with the proprietor rising from a chair to greet a customer who has Just come In. “You are the first customer I have seen in ten minutes,” says the cigar man. “What’s the matter?” asks the customer. “People stopped smoking?” “Why, they always atop more or less on days like these. You see, this humid weather makes cigars soft and 6pongy. Even hard, well-seasoned cigars will absorb the moisture In the air and get soft In such weather, and when cigars are damp like that they don’t taste so good. “There’s nothing like the fun to be got out of a cigar on a day like this that there would be In smoking It in bright, dry weather; and only the most Inveterate smokers indulge as much In humid as they do In ordinary weather. “So a day like this Is bad for the cigar business.”—New York Sun.