Judge — December 25, 1897 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THE MODERN AMERICAN PRODUCT, OF THE STANDARD BRANDS [7 HAS been the fashion, generally, to assign the Golden Age of arts, letters, and pretty much everything else, to some remote period of his- tory, the farther back the better, The reverse procedure must be followed as regards tobacco-smoking, which dates only from the discovery of America, at the earliest. It has undergone a process of evolution, in these four hundred years, until in our present century of civilization has blos- somed forth that perfect flower of Nicotian pleasure, the modern cigarette. As our tastes become more and more refined, a corresponding im- provement takes place in the products designed to gratify those tastes. The cigarette came to meet a demand that neither the pipe nor the cigar could supply. In America, the country foremost in enterprise and invent- ive resources, as well as the native home of the finest tobacco-leaf_grown on the planet, the cigarette rapidly evolved to its highest perfection. If we have become a nation of cigarette-smokers—as the fact of our annual production and consumption of the article, reaching up into the billions, indicates that we are-—it is because we appreciate and demand the best of everything. When it is something we have made ourselves, our apprecia- tion is especially consistent. "Tis confidence that makes epicures of us all. Upon what is based the universal confidence in the standard and es- tablished brands of American cigarettes ? In the first place, every one who interests himself in the matter—and it is genuinely, intrinsically, interesting—knows with what fastidious care is cultivated, cured, blended and shredded the Virginia bright tobacco-leaf, of which exclusively these cigarettes are made. It is a leaf of surpassing mildness, sweetness and fragrance. This is due to the scientifically es- tablished fact that it contains only from one to one and one-half per cent. of nicotine; whereas the mildest Havana cigar contains four per cent., and some of the best grades of domestic cigars as high as eight and one- half per cent. This fact of the cigarette tobacco’s excellence and harmlessness being settled, the only question that could disturb the smoker's mind was, whether this tobacco pure and simple, and no other ingredient, goes into the cigarette, and whether the film of paper in which it is wrapped is of like purity. ‘The great manufacturers know that it is, and has to be—that Miatge THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE CIGARETTE. IS THE ACME OF DAINTINESS AND PURITY, AND A BOON TO THE TIRED NERVES OF CIVILIZED MANK ND. every individual cigarette of all their immense output is absolutely pure and unadulterated—and so they gladly welcomed the frequent searching analyses and investigations of their wares. As they confidently anticipat- ed, the results have been uniformly a complete vindication of their highest claims, constituting the best advertisement they could possibly have. The New York Sun, commenting editorially upon the recent discus- sion of the cigarette by the Medico-Legal Society of this city, quotes the opinion in its defense expressed there by a veteran cigarette-smoker, who on his part cited the opinions of the best chemical authorities as to the relative innocuousness of the tobaccos used respectively for cigarettes, cigars and chewing. He made the same telling point with regard to the proportions of nicotine that we have noted above; and also showed indi putably that the paper used for cigarette wrappers is purified and harmless. The Sun editorial writer then goes on to mention the Chicago Health Department's late official investigation, originally designed as an anti-cig- arette measure, but which resulted as thus chronicled by the Chicayo Post, in an interview with the Assistant Commissioner of Health : “The Health Department has analyzed the various brands of cigarettes sold by Chicago dealers, as provided by the ordinance, with entirely satisfactory results. No impurities were found in any of the fourteen brands examined by the department experts, Dr. Gehrmann and Professor Kenicott. Exhaustive analyses were made of every brand of cigarette found for sale in the city, All have been found to be entirely free from opium, morphine, jimpson weed, bella- donna, atropine, hyoscyamus, or other substances foreign to pure tobacco, Neither was there any lead of arsenic found in the paper wrappers. AS a mat- ter of fact, there is nothing in any of the fourteen brands of cigarettes on the Chicago market that the smoker need be afraid of. The tobacco used contains only about one-fourth as much nicotine as is found in cigars. ‘The less nicotine in the tobacco the less likelihood of ill effect upon the nervous system.” With such reassurance, the most fastidious smoker can surely rest content, and let nothing mar his enjoyment of the halcyon moment, Bliss- fully puffing the blue cloud-rings skyward, he thanks fate that he has struck the Golden Age of the Cigarette. SHAMPOOING is made delightfully refreshing, and a real luxury, by the use of Packer’s Tar Soap. Its known purity, excellent cleans- | ing, invigorating and antiseptic prop- erties have secured for this soap the highest commendation of physicians and hair-dressers for cleansing and preserving the hair, and for use in treatment of dandruff and baldness. like Chaba, Hotels, Cafés and ‘THE LATEST! YOUR PHOTO ON BUTTONS. 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