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say that no lady will ever smoke a cigar- 

 ette. According to that no gentleman 

 will smoke a cigar, much less a pipe. 



And yet we have smoked with some 

 very gentle-men. 



A cigar is a cigar for a' that. 



MOST men of talent and genius use or 

 have used tobacco in some form. Those 

 who don't, while they are none the less 

 great, are surely less happy. What a 

 round of reveries and delightful musings 

 they have missed ! Napoleon, for in- 

 stance, if he had only learned to smoke, 

 might have made a better record for him- 

 self, certainly a more humane one, and 

 his days of St. Helena would have been 

 so calm, peaceful, and reflective that he 

 would have given us a study of the times 

 (had he smoked) that would now be 

 among the classics of literature. 



Look at the " big smokers " of to-day, 

 and outside of their greatness what 

 " good fellows " they are. Here are 



