The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-12-17
MAN AND HIS PIPE.
In Germany There Is q Close Con-
ncc5ion Between Them.
An Index to tho Smokers Charncter-
First Experiences OF tho hoy with
His Fathers Pipe and Ills
Habits Later On.

one can doubt 1t who watches n Gcrma,
smoke His selection of pipe is n,
small matter. He has gone through al
the gradations in the art of smoking
and II is an art in Germany-and get
to his pipe about the age of forty. +
becomes the comfort of the middle apf
and the darling of the old It is fondlet
and stroked and praised in no unstintet
style. II is the inseparablc companion
OF the hearthstone, and neither house
beer or story paper can dethrone it.
One can always tell the particular
bent of mans mind. says the Chicago
Times, by his style of pipe. The picture
on the bowl is usually an epitome OF
the smokers youth. Should it be the
head OF the rcigning emperor be sure
that patriotism is the ruling passion.
And If it bears picture of wooded
mountain side, slsirted by broad river,
surmounted by n high tower, adorned
with the ruins of a feudal castle, and
perhaps the inscription: "Alt Heidel-
berg du Feine," the smoker is gallant
as well as patriotic. recognizes and en-
joys life when he secs 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 his youthful pleasure
comes back with the sight of his pipe.
His first experience has been with cigar
tips. AS a boy he has helped to strip off
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 for
the day when a box of little dry yellow
cigars would be beside his plate. That
day he would be eighteen-he would
begin to be man. What Joy!
OF course with the German boy the
first smoke is 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 Papas watchful
care. The cigar is light as straw, clean
and fragrant, harmless as stick of
candy.
During the first years OF his expert
ence the German young man smokes
rather eXpensively. 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 a statcsman's. It 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
~ the German youth may puff his
castles OF smoke in the air all day long
without injury to his heart or head or
qualms of conscience about his nervous
apparatus. ~
When the young German becomes a
university freshman he is apt to raise
the price of his cigars to q cent extra.
Once In day he takes big curved |
pipe with the picture of scantily |
clothed German beauty on the porcelain
bowl and tries few puffs-this not fire.
luently. 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
,he streets for new fatherland or stu
lents' rights the great pipes were trade.
marks of active university men. The
lctive freshman succumbs to the Sc
luction OF the two and one-half cent
'igar now.
About the second freshman term,
however. the student begins to cut
[own his expenses, his tobacco bills in
luded. A quarter of cent at q time
le grades down till at his fourth term
le arrives at the celebrated "Heidel-
'erg fvc-pfennig cigar"-one cent of
american currency-yett the fivc-pfcnnig
igar Is far from bad. 1t is about half
S long as mans middle finger, round
nd very thick in the middle. It costs
he dealer about eighty cents per one
undred. The Heidelberg dealer sells
othing else; he caters only TO students.
N American would have a bad quarter
+ an hour unless provided with his
avorite weed.
The student becomes prosperous after
aving been graduated; he takes again
, two and one-half cent cigars, and
nokes them till he reaches the age of
orty or forty-fye. when he begins his
career.
To understand how important the art
smoking is and what a large part it
lays in the nations life, one has but to
'ok at the paraphernalia of German
noker. Everyone carries cigar case,
cigar clipper, match safe and lit
g leather box for the cigar tips. The
gar case is Indispensable, because the
gars are so dry they would crack to
ieces II carried loosely in the pocket.
or the same reason the clipper Is
anted. Then the smoker wants to
eep the tips. They are collected by a
'ciety organized for the purpose in
ach province and are sold back to the
for the benefit Of charit-
BILE institutions. Then the match safe
necessary. since German etiquette
'rbids carrying anything = knife.
Ioney. matches uncovered In the
ocket.
No wonder he resents any attempt at
lxation of tobacco. A whole group of
ldustries are bound up with the enjoy.
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