The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-05
\! 4: It's ELS PIPE.
IN Germany There is q Close Con-
4 nection Between Them.

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I An Index 70 the Smokers Character
First Experience Of the Boy with
His Fathers Pipe and His
Habits Later On.
Cigars and cigarettes are cosmopol-
ttan. but a pipe represents race No
one can doubt it who watches German
smoke. His selection Of a pipe is no
small matter He has gone through all
the gradations in the art Of smoking
and it is an art in Germany and gets
to his pipe about the age of forty. It
becomes the comfort of the middle age
and the darling Of the old. tits fondled
and stroked and praised in no unstinted
style. It is the inseparable companion
of the hearthstone, and neither house,
beer or story paper can dethrone it.
One can always tell the particular
bent OF a mans mind, says the Chicago
Times, by his style of pipe. The picture
on the bowl is usually an epitorne Of
the smokers youth. Should it be the
head Of the reigning emperor be sure
that patriotism is the ruling passion.
And if it bears picture of wooded
mountain side, skirted by a broad river,
surnounted by 81 high tower adorned
with the ruins Of feudal castle, and
perhaps the inscriptions: 'sAlt Heidel-
berg du Feline" the smoker i gallant
as we'll as patriotic. recognizes and en-.
joys life when he sees it. So does he
who selects the girl with the wine glass
and the inscription: ''Wer Liebt Nicht
Webb, Vein and Gessang?''
The memory of hisyouthful pleasure
comes back with the sight of his pipe.
His first experience has been with cigaa
tips. AS boy he has helped to strip of
the ends of Herr Papa's cigars and place
them carefully in the little leather
case that was always found in the pa
ternal pocket. Later on he has watched
the big pipe send forth clouds of tobacco
smoke from its big bowl and longed fol
she day when box of little dry yellow
cigars would be beside his plate. That
day he would be eighteen-he would
begin TO be a man. What joy!
Of course with the German boy the
first smoke is a family affair, and if not
as spicy as the stolen smokes of the
American youth it is robbed of it's sick.
ening effect by Herr Papa's watchfu
care. The cigar is light as straw, clean
and fragrant, harmless as 81 stick OF
candy.
During the first years of his expert
ence the German young man smokes
rather extensively. Two-cent cigars
are his limit, and this is considered
pretty high life in Germany, where it is
thought disloyal for an ordinary citizen
to allow his time or cigar bill to run
higher than Il stateslnan's. 1t is said
that Bismarck keeps within the bounds
of six dollars for his.
These two-cent cigars are infinitely
better than our high-priced ones, mas
much as tobacconist will not for any
consideration allow cigar to leave his
store till it shall have been seasoned at
least three Or four months Consequent
.ly the German youth may puff his
castles of smoke in the air all day long
without injury to his heart or head or
aqualms of conscience about his nervous
apparatus
university freshman he is apt to raise
the price of his cigars to a cent extra.
Once in a day he takes big curved
pipe with the picture of a scantily
clothed German beauty on the porcelain
bowl and tries a few putfs-this not fire.
quently. The pipe is oftener found on
the wall in these days In the days
when students wore top boots and
swords and fought pitched battles in
the streets for new fatherland or stu
dents rights the great pipes were trade
marks of active university men. The
active freshman succumbs to the Sc
6uction of the two and one half cent
cigar now.
About the second freshman term,
however, the student begins to cut
down his expenses, his tobacco bills in
cluded. A quarter of a cent at a time
he grades down till at his fourth term
he arrives at the celebrated "Heidel-
berg. ve-pfennig cigar"--one cent of
American currency-yet the hve-pfennig
cigar is far from bad. It is about half
as long as a mans middle finger, round
and very thick in the middle. It costs
the dealer about eighty cents per one
hundred. The Heidelberg dealer sells
nothing else; he caters only to students.
An American would have a bad quarter
of an hour unless provided with his
favorite weed.
The student becomes prosperous after
having been graduated; he takes again
to two and one-half cent cigars, and
smokes them till he reaches the age of
forty or forty-fve, when he begins his
pipe smoking career.
To understand how important the art
Of smoking is and what a large part it
plays in the nations life, one has but to
look at the paraphernalia of German
smoker. Everyone carries cigar case,
cigar clipper, match safe and lit
tie leather box for the cigar tips. The
cigar case is Indispensable, because the
cigars are so dry they would crack to
pieces if carried loosely in the pocket
For the same reason the clipper is
wanted. Then the smoker wants to
keep the tips. They are collected by
society organized for the purpose in
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