Q%4 UNIVERSAL SMOKING. 
habit of making shoes in Lynn, Massachusetts, everybody 
smokes !—in the house, and by the way; in the cars, and on 
horseback ; everywhere, and at all times. You meet whole 
regiments of youngsters, from six to eight years of age, with 
black beaver hats, tail-coats, and canes, each with a cigar, 
nearly his own size, in his mouth. You feel like putting the 
miniature dandies into the water of the next fountain basin, 
which shallow as it is, would fully, suffice to drown the largest 
of them.” 
You have a right to accost any one smoking in the street, 
however much may be his superiority or inferiority to your- 
self, and to ask a light for your cigar; even negroes hatless 
and shirtless, thus address well-dickied gentlemen, and vice 
versa. Refuse to take a cigar with a Cuban, and you refuse 
his friendship. The negroes cannot work at all without 
their quota of cigars ; “and looking out of the windows of a 
room in that magnificent hotel ‘El Telegrafo, the writer 
remembers to have caught a glimpse more than once of the 
“negro women at work in the laundry, every one of whom 
held a long cigar in 
her mouth, and puffed 
incessantly asthe 
3, clothes were manipu- 
- lated: upon the wash- 
boards.” In Havana, 
as throughout Cuba, 
‘there is a cigar eti- 
‘quette, to:infringe any 
- of the rules of which 
is construed as an in- 
sult. Itis, for instance 
considered a breach 
of etiquette when you 
are asked for a light 
.to hand your cigar without first knocking off the ashes. A 
greater breach, however, is to pass the cigar handed for you 
to obtain a light from, to a third party for a similar purpose; 
the rule is to hand back the cigar with as graceful a wave as 
WENCHES SMOKING. 
