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Identifier: gri_spanishameri00chil (find matches)
Title: The Spanish-American republics
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore, 1846-1892
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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n-ferior cigars are produced, but where cigarettes are made by millionswith imported tobacco, chiefly Havana picadura. The home-madecigarette monopolizes the immense Argentine market; the marksare very numerous, each being popularized by artistic chromo-litho-graphic wrappers and catching names, such as Excelsior, Tip-Top,Clic-Clac, etc.; and the competition between those engaged in thisprofitable industry, combined with the Argentine love of showy novel-ties, necessitates the continual creation of new designs. At the timeof my visit I counted nearly a hundred varieties of cigarettes in theshops of the capital. The native wax matches, put up in dainty boxesafter the French and Italian fashion, have monopolized the marketsince 1880, having driven out the Italian matches that held the monop-oly from 1870, up to which latter date the French were the exclusivepurveyors of this article. In no city in the world, in proportion tothe population, are more wax matches used than in the Argentine
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«■-.. 5- ~*\E - «V.*^^; THE CATHEDRAL AFTER SERVICE. THE ARGENTINE CAPITAL. 283 metropolis, where every man and every boy above ten years of agesmokes cigarettes from morning until night. The cigarette is toler-ated everywhere, in the tram-ways and trains, in-doors and out-of-doors,in the ministries and public offices, in the warehouses and offices;even the clerks in the banks smoke their cigarettes and puff smoke inyour face as they hand you your count of paper dollars, or oro sellado,and the ordinary commercial employe may generally be found with acigarette behind one ear and a wooden toothpick behind the other,always ready to take advantage of a moments leisure. When yousalute a person, Argentine politeness requires you to take off yourhat but allows you to keep your cigarette between your lips. The furniture interest has developed within the past twenty yearsin a remarkable manner. Formerly only plain white-wood articleswere made in the republic, while Germany supplied the ric

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