CUBAN ETIQUETTE OF SMOKING.
A singular etiquetto is observed all over -Cuba with respect to smoking, which a lough Britisher does not always appreciate. An utter stranger is at liberty to .stop you in the middlo of the street to beg the favour of your " candela," or light from your cigar. If you are polite, you will immediately hand him your weed, with the asheß carefully shaken off, and the lighted end conveniently pointed in his direction. Part of your fire having been successfully transferred to his cigar, the stranger is bound to return your property, presenting it, by a dexterous turn of the wrist, with the mouth end towards y 0U — an operation which requires no little praotioe, as it is accompanied with a
downward jerk to express deep obligation. If, after this, you are inclined to abandon your cigar for a fresh one, you may not do so in the stranger's presence, but wait till he has disappeared. There is a sort of smoking freemasonry, too, between Cubans all over the world. A Cuban recognises a compatriot anywhere, by the manner in which he screws up his cig"arette, holds it, and offers or accepts a light. —"The Pearl of the Antilles."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1155, 17 January 1874, Page 10
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