CIGAR ETIQUETTE, 275 
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, orto 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- 
A MOONLIGHT REVERIE 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. 
