CIGARS IN GLASS BOXES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 47, 20 March 1909, Page 3

CIGARS IN GLASS BOXES.

■ I <l«n't believe it will be long before the cedar-wiod eigar-liox is a tiling of the past, said a- West End toliacconist. as lie pnlle'd the .nails out of a I>ox. Several ,hijr cigiU'-manufnctiiriiig concerns haw? l«?on experimenting recently .vrth rinswjarsas a substitute, and .they, «re proving a great success. Of course thev are heavier Wan the wooden box and there is a slisrht iwreenitase nf I>rMka»e. Suit, in Hie end they are clipper, Mr the price of the wooden Uoxes .is «om S up all the tune. The .package is attractive, anil the cigar, jpWAed in the jaw will not drv so japidlv. ' . . FJftv Jars are paA-ed in the jar,. .wliidi'lmve a. ligNt. cifckeled screw top. Th<- burl v« rt nf a * srl« ss - 1 * ,x ™'*; ,s itlia't the' smokers' wives ran put them, ito wood use after tli* cigars are all »wne. TheV ean lie .used in Hie for a thousand different things. H«t_ a wViode'u e,i».ar-l>ox isn't much iw f« r nnvtliing after it lias served its firs, purpose. You could break, shutter, o in most a-.vrtliinawitli U. but the *ent of trre tobacco always clings to it-