Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20

scoNonY not THE ONLY coxsDERArIoN-AIL.
CIGARS ALIKE OUT OF DooRs-A PIPE FOB Or
DUARY us1, But GOOD CIGAR AFTER DrNNER-
KINDS OF PIPES AND HOW 10 SMOKE THEN.
ssWHY WILL YOU persist in smoking
w cheap cigars?' asked the old smoker
OF STAR reporter. "f you cannot afford to
smoke good cigars leave poor ones alone and
take pipe-take two, take Q dozen, for the
more You have the more you viii enjoy them.
To smoke pipe is after all the most rational
way OF deriving pleasure from the weed. II
is the cheapest, the most satisfactory and, I
honestly believe, the least injurious. OF course
We do not include cigarettes in our category,
for we are talking about smoking when you
know that you are smoking tobacco. Cigar
cites. my boy, always remind me in q way Of
Mr.. Weller's veal pies they're all VERY well
when You knows the lady what makes EN-;
then you may know what is inside of them.
The same, suppose, may be true, in q small
degree, OF cigars, but when you have dry,
sweet pipe filed up to the brim with fake or
long cut right from the sunny fields Of vir-
ginia or the Carolinas, with. perhaps, Q little
Turkish and Perique mixed in, then you can
have the pleasure Of an honest smoke with
the flavor of the tobacco and not of something
else, you know not what.
SMOKING OUT OF DOORS
III you intend to smoke out of doors, how
ever, and will smoke cigars, think you are
right in smoking cheap ones, for in the open
and In the wind especially, one cigar is about
as rank as another. A pipe, on the other hand,
does not suffer to the same extent and it has
,ne advantage, too that you can take it out,
light up and puff away contentedly. and then,
II for any reason you wish to quit sooner than
you had expected, you are not obliged to throw
1t away; simply put it in your pocket till you
want it again.
"And then the economy Of the thing-did
you ever think about that? At the foot ball
games this fall. for instance, noticed any
number OF men putting away at cigars, lighting
fresh one from the stump of the old one. and
getting not the least satisfaction out of any Of
them. suppose it is safe to say that the aver
age young man about town smokes three-for-a-
quarter cigars. He thinks to himself that eight
cents more will not bankrupt him and he lights
another weed. I'll admit that eight cents is
not much, but if you keep on multiplying it
steadilyit soon counts up, and at that rate it
doesn't take long to burn a hole in $5 note
Now, am not one Of those people who are SO
fond Of telling you that the money you burn
up in that way, if boarded for a certain num-
Der OF years, would pay for a handsome brown
stone house, for l know that there are lots Of
men who do not smoke, but who are, neverthe-
them, too. What do mean is that if you will
only smoke pipe you will get great deal more
satisfaction out of it, and at
1.-THE OF THE COST
Smoking tobacco good enough for the most
particular can be had for from 81 to % q
pound, and quarter of a pound will last any
man good long while. Keep your good cigar
until after dinner, when you're in the house
and possibly by big open fire. Then bring it
out and light up and you will find out what
your cigar tastes like, and you will enjoy it in
way you could never have done while you were
hurrying along the streets with a cold wind
blowing in your face. I'm an old enough
smoker myself to know that there are few COM
forts to be had on the surface of this mundane
spheroid that can compare with the first few
puffs OF q good after-dinner cigar, but give
me pipe out Of DOORS"
PIPE SMOKING ON THE INCREASE.
This generous tribute to the merits Of the
pipe encouraged The STAR reporter to delve
farther into the mysteries of the subject, and
as a result number of facts were unearthed.
In the first place it would seem as though pipe
smoking were decidedly on the increase in
WashingtOn-nOt on the streets, however At
first one might think that this latter fact was
for the reason that pipe looks out of place
and vulgar and Is offensive to passers by, but it
is claimed that there is very little choice be-
tween the fumes from the average cigar and a
pipe filled with the better class of tobacco. The
most natural explanation is that pipe smoking
on the street is not the style. If it were-well.
we would ali have to grin and bear it Just as we
do now in the case of the young man or the
dude with his paper cigarettes-callt them coffin
nails, undertakers' hopes or what you will. A
few young men do not hesitate to openly show
their devotion to the seductive briar wood, but
the majority are scared off by fear of being
guyed and dubbed Anglomaniacs A young
Briton without his bulldog pipe and his plug
OF tobacco handy is as much at sea as a we'll
known public character who some time ago
went to the bottom Of it dressed in his best
Sunday suit.
KINDS OF PIPES.
Pipes nowadays are to be had in all possible
styles and shapes-Of meerschaum, of briar,
rosewood, cherry, violet and half hundred
more, not counting in the festive and always
popular corncob or Missouri meerschaum, as
it i; sometimes called. A fine meerschaum ia
too much trouble to take care of and MANY a
good mans reason has tOttered on its perch
while he was devoting himself to colorring
handsome bowl that some injudicious friend
had given him. For comfort-real homespun
yard-wide and dyed-in-the- comfort-a vet
eran briar or time-honored cob can give a
carved meerschaum points and then come out
way ahead. Only don't smoke your one favor
lite all the time. Have a number of fayorites
and take them in turn. Make collection, even
though it be not large one nor very expensive
In the end you will lind it wise folly and an
economical extravaganza. Have enough so
that you need never have to smoke the same
pipe a second time until it has had plenty of
leisure to cool and dry thoroughly. Never
smoke q wet pipe. When it begins to boil and
to gurgle you may know it is dirty, and if you
are not careful you will get dose of nicotine
that will knock all the fun out of your smoke
II is this boiling nicotine that bites the tongue
and makes most Of the trouble that comes from
smoking. Clean the pipe thoroughly after it is
smoked out though the crust that cakes the
inside OF the bowl need not be removed. That
acts as a sort of a protection, and gives flavor
that new pipe never has. Don't smoke it
again until you are sure it has had time to dry
thoroughly. Fill up with good, pure tobacco
light it and puff away slowly and comfortably,
and if you do not enjoy it then you had better
go back to your cigarettes and own that you
are not real smoker, or SO the "Old Smoker
says.
The First Paper Maker.
"The nest of the hornet is the first article of
paper manufacture that ever saw the light of
day." said paper maker to a representative of
the Paper World. "The hornet takes the
wood of q tree, grinds it assiduously into pulp
and forms sheets of paper, out of which he con-
structs his nest Although as Won IN N 200 tho