TOBACCO LEAVES 



It is a healthful custom. It not only 

 does not interfere with the work, but it 

 increases the efficiency and output of the 

 worker. It ensures quiet and good man- 

 ners among the auditors. It prevents 

 bickering among those sitting close to- 

 gether, and it develops an intellectual 

 tone which endures throughout life. The 

 village hand who enters a cigar factory 

 as an apprentice becomes by degrees as 

 well informed and intelligent a man as 

 his city brother who has had the advan- 

 tages of a fair education. Under these 

 auspices, it is but natural that from the 

 ranks of the workman should come em- 

 ployers, brokers, merchants, and business 

 men. In the course of the years many of 

 them attain wealth and social position. 



A glance at the packing-boxes which 

 leave the Havana factories discloses the 

 many lands which are brought into rapport 

 with Havana through the intangible me- 



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