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Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubarevie10muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931. (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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THE CUBA REVIEW of the cigar must be packed tightly into the narrow shoulder and that such a cigar does not smoke evenly, nor does the draught reach all its layers alike. That is the reason for the growing popularity of straight sided, blunt tipped cigars. "The skillful tabaquero has no mold, no binder, not even a pattern. Yet when he has finished fifty cigars of one vitola they are absolutely the same in measurement. The modelling must all be done in the rolling; for if he tried to pinch or pull it into shape after it was finished, the to- bacco would not be evenly distributed and the cigar wouldn't burn. Nothing can be used to hold the leaves in place except a touch of gum tragacanth, mixed fresh twice a day, at the tip, where, as a rule, it is bitten off by the smoker. "In this country girls can learn to make cigars with a mold and a binder in a few months. In Cuba the simplest shapes re- quire two or three years apprenticeship, and a tabaquero will sometimes be ten years in perfecting his making of a difficult shape. He is well paid and well treated, however. Some of them receive $C or $7 a day for making only twenty-five or thirty cigars.
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