CIGAR ETIQUETTE. 



you can command, and then if necessary, pass your own 

 cigar to the third party. 



The insult direct in cigar etiquette is for the party to 

 whom you apply for a light, to pass on and leave you with 

 the remains of his cigar, or to intimate to you, by word or 

 action, that he has no further use for it, and that you can 

 throw it away. In Cuba, where cigars are plentiful, the 

 usual custom is, when you ask for a light, even if the party 

 be a stranger, to pull out your case and offer him a cigar, by 

 way of recognizing the civility in stopping to accommodate 

 you. The Spaniards are naturally a polite people, and the 

 stranger stepping into the Louvre and other public places of 

 resort in Havana, is struck at once with the marked contrast 

 in this respect to familiar gatherings elsewhere. In no place 

 is a cigar more enjoyable than in Havana. Seated upon 

 the roof of one of the large hotels in that city in a bright 

 moonlight night, within hearing of the dreamy roll on the 

 beach : the regular throb of the sea, lulling one into quiet- 



MOONLIGHT RSVKRIE IN HAVANA. 



ness ; the sigh of the summer breeze a lullaby to the senses ; 

 while a high-flavored prime cigar, as it wastes and floats away 



