Cigar smoker at age of 5

[El Presidente]

 

https://www.semissourian.com/history/from-the-morgue-short-stories-to-hopefully-entertain-readers-9a8e4960

 

Five-year-old Billy Sitzes likes his cigar despite his tender age and, if four years lend experience, he's a veteran. He posed for these interesting picture studies with all the nonchalance of an old hand, at both posing and smoking. At the extreme left he tilts the stogie at a rakish angle, squints his eyes and looks the pictureman right in the face; then with the adeptness born of doing it, he blows off the ash in the next picture just before the cameraman moved up closer to catch a near view in the next one of the cigar, a couple of teeth and a place where a tooth used to be and, finally he smiles, the cigar droops and he's just a kid again.Southeast Missourian archive

Cigar smoker at age of 5

Cape boy has been at it since infancy

After four years of smoking stogies, 5-year-old Billy Sitzes of Cape Girardeau contends that there’s not a lot of difference in cigars. In fact, he declares, they’ll all do when a fellow wants a smoke.

Billy handles his cigar like a veteran. Much to the distress of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Sitzes, 1107 Broadway, Billy began smoking at the age of 1 year. He got hold of a cigar, smoked it, and it didn’t make him sick. Since then he’s been at it, probably not smoking as often as adult cigar fans, but with sufficient frequency to satisfy his whim. Just once in a while, for variety’s sake, Billy smokes a pipe and occasionally he indulges in a cigarette, but he prefers cigars.

Tried to break habit

Failing by various methods to discourage his premature indulgence, the parents have finally concluded that it is best to let him have his occasional cigar, hoping that he will sooner or later get one that will cause him to develop a distaste for them. But Billy has thus far conquered all of them. Observers of his habit have handed him the “foulest pieces of rope” manufactured and when, without batting an eye, the youngster took the cigar in tow well under control they shook their heads and walked away. Apparently the smoking has had no ill effects. Billy is a husky youngster and well able to hold his own with any child his age.

He does not inhale the smoke, but sometimes surrounds himself with a cloud, particularly when he wants to put on an exhibition. Ordinarily, he cocks the cigar at a jaunty angle in his mouth and puffs nonchalantly until it has been consumed down to a stub, tosses it away, and goes on about his play.

[BrightonCorgi]

I wonder what his adult story was?

[Ford2112]

 

13 hours ago, BrightonCorgi said:

I wonder what his adult story was?

He's me. I didn't want to say anything.

[Li Bai]

14 hours ago, El Presidente said:

Much to the distress of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Sitzes, 1107 Broadway, Billy began smoking at the age of 1 year. He got hold of a cigar, smoked it, and it didn’t make him sick.

One has to love a good story, huh? 

[BrightonCorgi]

11 hours ago, Ford2112 said:

 

He's me. I didn't want to say anything.

You've aged well!

[BrightonCorgi]

Could this be him?

William Frank Sitzes (1931-1987) - Find a Grave Memorial