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A Brief Note on CIGARS
HERE'S HOW TO CHOOSE AND STORE
CIGARS
Somewhere it is told how our Salvation Yeo, that
stalwart of the Virgin Queen, made a primitive cigar
by "rolling a piece oftobacco leaf up neatly to the size
of his httle finger." Much science, thought and
experience has since that day been devoted to the
production of this most wholesome weed, but the
finest cigars still come—as they always have done—
from Cuba, and the most famous tobacco growing
district is the western portion of the Island, Vuelta
Abajo.
A great deal of the tobacco is exported for blending
all over the world, but the cigars actually grown,
blended and made in Havana, owing to the pecuhar
climatic conditions, are acknowledged superior to
those produced in any other part ofthe world.
Havana Cigars are made entirely by hand and the
makers are artists at their work. The average work
man will make about loo medium-size cigars per day.
The Cuban Government,in protection ofthe industry,
by law insists on its green Guarantee label being
placed round all boxes of genuine Havana-made
Cigars; this is a great protection/ to smokers who
otherwise might be deceived.
Owing to labour and other difficulties, several of the
well-known manufacturers, whose names have been
household words for generations, have recently
transferred their factories from Cuba to the U.S.A.
Chief amongst these are the well-known La Corona,
Henry Clay, Bock and M. VaUe. The stocks of the
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