The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-12
SMOKES A SHORT PIPE.
The Present Sort Of Englishmen
in London is Peripatetic
Flume.
Without Exception They at All
Times Puff Away at a
Short Pipe.
Even Peresse Take q Whin-Battenbere
Bounced for Lighting His Pipe in
Victoria's Presence.

equally UeVOteu TO 6uOEG plpob. Inc Eng
lishman in purple and fine linen joys elbows
on terms of complete sympathy and equal.
ity with the ragged and loafng Englishman
at the street corner; both have short pipes
between their teeth. You will see the
smartly-coated, varnished-booted young
man escorting his mother and sisters to the
park or to church putting all the time at his
short pipe, and at night time you will find
him in the lobby of the
theatre taking hurried puffs at
his pipe between the acts. Look into the
carriages Of the train on any of the rail-
ways. In the first class, clergymen, bank
directors, eminent professional men and
lavender-Rloved dandies-nine-tenths, in
Guiding the clergymen, all smoking short
pipes, and in the third class, the Aries of
cookney dom and the Bills Of the suburbs
all alike, smoking short pipes.
A distinguished judge will be pointed out
to you in the street. His broadcloth is per-
feet in its solemnitv. His linen is ire
preachable in its snowy wilderness and the
weight of the ermine seems to be initiated
in every step he takes: and yet, while you
awhile in his tail pocket, fiddle awhile with
his thumb, strike match on the sole of his
boot, and light up short pipe.
In those theaters where smoking is per-
mitted during the performance, and there
are several of the highest class in London.
yOu Cdu CUuub SlA lhCA WAtA PApC5 w OAO
with cigar or cigarette. At the prone
made concerts at the French and military
exhibitions pipes are seen everywhere, even
IN the mouths of men In evening dress
walking with well-dressed women of per
feet responsibility. In the smoking room
of the house of parliament commoner and
lord vie with each other in the
shortness of their pipes and the prodigality
of their smoke clouds. The duke of Port
land, who is an inveterate smoker, puffs at
his pipe while he strolls arm-in-arm on the
river terrace with the duke of Richmond:
and tho bishop of London only lays his
pipe aside when he puts on the Episcopal
robes necessary for prelate to wear while
he occupies his seat at st. Stephens The
prince of Wales both his sons, the duke of
Edinburgh, and the duke of Fife are all
inveterate admirers of the short pipe, and
smoke it whenever they are present at con-
certs of the Lyric club, or in the privacy of
their clubs.
The only individual in all England who
seems to have any objection to the practice
is the little lady who rules the land. Hen
ry of Battenberg was banished from the
presence of his royal mother in-law once
for two months because he absently lit his
short pipe in the throne-room. But it
must not be supposed that the queen has
entire objections to the short pipe: on the
contrary, she now permits Henry of Bat
tenberg to smoke his, provided he keeps
we'll away from her apartments. 1t is the
sort of tobacco that he smokes that the
queen really objects to. In the life time of
the late John Brown, that favorite attend
ant of her majesty, a package of 'Birdseye"
tobacco was regularly sent every week to
the gillies' apartments by the lord controll-
er of the royal household, and Brown was
often seen enjoying his short pipe while
trudging after her majesty on her walks in
the Scotch highlands.
Everywhere and with everything the
short pipe plays Its part. l passed the un-
dertaker's shop yesterday. Three men
were mailing the cloth on n coffin, all with
pipes in their mouths. I glanced into a
with short pipe IN his mouth. The other
day prisoner condemned to death in one
OF the midland counties prisons went to the
gailows smoking his short pipe, and he only
relinquished the stem when the black cap
was drawn over his face.
One of Lady Dunlo's popular songs had q
GLORIOUS as follows:
Oh, give me my pipe, my little short pipe
] love it much better than onions ana tripe
1t opens my heart and sends sorrow away,
Whether cherrywood briar, meerchaum or clay.
Of course Lady Dunlo was not speaking
her own feelings on the subject, but simply
singing up to the character she was repre-
senting, a lawyers clerk on wet bank hol-
iday.
Still, there is some reason to believe that
the lovely EnglishwomanEs also occasionally
taking to theu short pipe, 1t is not to be
in the streets, but just as there are elevens
of amateur cricketers composed of young
married and single women from the ranks
of high society, who do not object to play
ing matches on the lawns of country houses,
and orchestras of young ladies led by must
young women who are studying the joys of the
short pipe. certain young dutchess has a
delightful room expressly built for pipe
smoking, and there is a collection of several
hundred short pipes in racks around the
apartment. Her grace smokes a delicate
enjoyment. and at her house parties she
generally finds one or two women who fol-
low her example.
1t isnot likely, however. that short pipe
smoking will ever become popular with
English women. A pipe never could look
at home or otherwise than disgraceful in a
woman's mouth. Indeed, the taste of to-
bacco, rs rule. is obnoxious to the FEM
mime tongue. Women have tried for ages
to become fond of cigarettes, but very few
have succeeded, and only oriental women
have ever really understood the delights of
rlpe-Smoking.
man told me the other night that eli
mate really regulated the variety of smok-
ing manners He was smoking a short pipe
himself-a weli-d,essed, well-mannered,
well-born. travelled Englishmau.
Il smoke a pipe directly get up" he
said, land pipe the last thing before &C
to sleep at night while am in England.
don't enjoy cigar in this at
mosphere. ln America do. and Sc
it is cigars all the time: and di
rectly l get into South America, where
frequently travel, l find both pipe and ciga
unpalatable in comparison to the cigarette
On board shipi chew tobacco and neve
smoke. Five years ago passed the summe
III Japan, and found l could not smoke a
all, but took quantities of snuff. Why.
don't know. The short pipe, however, i
the only way>tobaeco can be thoroughly en-
joyed in England. As for pipe being un
couth or offensive in comparison with
cigar i fail to see IT. What can be uslie
than the way some men have of exposing
the chewed end of a cigar between thei
fingers. of leaving nasty butts of cigar
about. Smoke pipe in one room and
cigar in another at night, and then motto
how far more pleasant the pipe room smell
than the other the following morning
You Americans are really prejudice,
against the short pipe. ii is simply your eli
mate that prevents its popularity. Afte
all. give us one short pipe every time il
preference TO your cuspidores."