Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — How They Smoke? [ARTICLE]

How They Smoke?

If a man smokes his cigar only to keep it lighted, and relishes taking it 0 it of his mouth to watch the curl of the smoke in the air, set him down as an easy going man. Beware of the m m who never releases his grip on the cigar and is indifferent whether it burns Or not; he is pool calculating and exacting. The man ths* ’mokes a bit, rests a bitarid fumbles h cigar more or less Is easily affectec; oy cir-cutn-Xances. If the cigar goes out frequently the smoker has a whole-souled disposition, is a 'hail fellow well met,” with a lively brain, glib tonpue and generally a fund of capital anecdotes. A ner\ ous man who fumbles his cigar n erent deal is. a sort of popinjay among men. IJolding the cigar eonMentiy between the teeth, chewing it occasionally and not caring if it be lighted at all are the characteristics of men who have the tenacity of bulldogs. The fop stands his cigar on ond, and

an experienced smoker points !! straight ahead or almost at right angles with his course.