few aromas in nature more delicate and pleasurable than a puff of smoke from a fine clear Havana.

Many women with a connoissour's palate for the finer joys of life have discovered this. They range from "Poker Alice", the lady gambler of the Western frontier, to postess Amy Lowell, who was the very spirit of New England. The Italian actress, Anna Magnani, is among the noted feminine cigar smokers of today.

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But you will note one pertinent thing about these throo ladi es they are all talented, strong-minded decisivo Herein may lie the real key to the mystery of why so many women avoid cigars, or openly attack them.

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At the risk of alienating the unenlightened addicts of other forms of nicotine, I'd like to point out the basic superiority of the cigar smoker over both the cigaret and the pipe smoker.

Your typical cigaret smoker is often nervous and indecisive. Your typical pipe man is a life-boaton philosophor sending up smoke signals of futility.

But your typical cigar smoker is an expansive, aggressivo, forceful optimist a man of action, forthright and decisivo. I give you, for examplo, U. S. Grant, Gon. George S. Patton and Winston Churchill.

The man who smokes cigars is a man who can make up his mind. This, I submit, is why so few women to day smoke

oi garu.

They aron't the kind of people who really like

to make up their mind.

For all their vaunted prosent power and influence, women still prefer to get by through their age-old arts of charm and evasion. As a cat hates to get its feet wet, a woman still hates to make up her mind and take direct action. When it comes to real power, woman is still a fence sitter at heart.

Her heroine is still Cleopatra, who ruled Mark Antony by romantic wiles. But she overlooks the fact that if Cleopatra had been a really virile cigar-smoking type she

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