Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1926, Page 93

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE THE CORNER CIGAR STORE SECTION—JANUARY BY W. E. HILL. 22 10, 1926. (Copyright, by the Chicago Tribuna.) Section of frieze, much reduced, for a tobacco salesman’s room, showing, from left to right, the lady who wants to use the directory, the gum chewer after some TRIPPLEMINT, the girl who wants to use the telephone (there are too many listeners in the apartment), the man who meant to get the razor blades SURE THING and forgot, and the sweet young thing with a crush on the handsome clerk, after a 2-cent stamp. Jt's a gay life! The cigar buyer is a careful shopper. First he sniffs the two-for-a-quarter; then he drops it to see if it rings true, and then he gives it a long, searching look that all but breaks the heart of any seli-respecting panatella. To be looked at askance is terrible for a good cigar! A tobacco emporium on a busy cor- ner makes a delightful clubroom for taxi drivers. Many a rough quip and rougher jest is bandied back and forth, thus making the tobacco sales- man's life a merry one indeed We have with us this day the lady who doesn't believe in signs struggling with our phone service in a cigar store booth. Four out of every five get out of order. Larry, the genial cop. seeks a brief refuge from the wind and rain, inside the door Young lady customer about to purchase two pack- ages of SWEET POPS. Ask Ma, she knows. r | The clerk with the swell line | behind the cash regist “How abou ac isn't NDON PIPE on of LO | N BOON MIXTURE for ove Buy two ¢ ave 7 cents! Or a e box of HEAV S CHOCOLATES? > Well, drop “Can I leave this bundle here till tonight?” “Oh, baby! Y'oughta seen the smile the one with the red hair gave me!” Meet Mr Kraus, window dressing the tobacco emporium and paus- ing in his labors to regis- ter enticement. % ) e