The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-01-28
MAN AND HIS PIPE.
In Germany There Is Very Intimate
Connection Between Them.

In Germany There Is Very Intimate
| Connection Between Them.
Cigars and cigarettes are coSmopoli-
tan, but pipe represents race No
/ OH. can doubt it who watches Ger
| man smoke. His selection of a pipe
is no small matter. He has gone
through all the gradations in the art of
moking-and it is an art in Germany
| and gets TO his pipe about the age of
| forty. 1t becomes the comfort of the
middle age and the darling of the old.
| 1t is fonded aud strokad and praised
! in 40 unstintcd style. 1t is the insep-
| arabic companion OF the hcarthstOne.
and neither house. beer or stOry-papcr
can dcthrone ii.
One can always tell the particular
| bent OF mans mind by his style of
pipe. The picture on the bowl is
| usually an cDitome of the smokers
| youth. Should it be the head of the
reigning emperor, be sure that patriot
| ism is the ruling passion. And if it
| bears n picture OF Il wooden mountain
| side. shirtcd by a broad river. sur
| mounted by high tower, adorned
with the ruins of feudal castle. and
perhaps the inscription. "Alt Heidel-
| berg du Fene.n the smoker is 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 inscriptions: .Wer Liebt
| Nicht Webb. Vein und Gessang?"
The memory of his youthful pleas
ures come back with the sight of his
pipe. His first experience has been
with cigar tips. As boy he has help
ed to strip off the ends of Herr Papa's 8
cigars and place them carefully in the
| little leather-case that was always
found in the paternal 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 lie beside his plate. That day
he would be eighteen would be Il
| 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 its
sickening effect by Herr Papa's watch
full care. the cigar is light as straw,
clean and fragrant, harmless as stick
of candy.
During the first year of his expe-
rather expensivciy. Two-cent cigars
are his limit, and this is considered
pretty hign life in Germany. where it
is thought disloyal for an ordinary cit
izeu to allow lis time or cigar-bll to
run higher than statesman's. 1t is
said Bismarck keeps within the bounds
Of So for his
These two-cent cigars are infinitely
better than our higher-laiced ones. in
asmuch rs Il tobacconist will not for
any consideration allow cigar to
leave his store till it shall have been
seasoned at least three or four months.
Consequently the German youth may
pull his castles of smoke In the air all
day long without injury TO his heart or
head or quaimS OF conscience about MS
nervous apparatus.
When the young German becomes a
university freshman he is apt to raise
the current price of his cigars to II cent
extra. Once in day he takes big
curved pipe with tae picture of
scantiiv clothed German beauty on the
porcelain bowl and tries Il few puffs-
this not frequently The pipe is often
er fonnd on the wall in tlfrsc days. In
the days when students wore topboots
and swords and fought pitched battles
III the streets for Il new f9lthert,ud or
students rights the great pipes were
trademarks Of active university men.
The active freshmen succumbS to the
seduction of the Two and one half
cent cigar now.
About the second freshman term.
however, the student begins to cut
iown his expenses, his tobacco bill in
Guided. A quarter of u cent at Il time
he grades down till ut his fourth term
he arrives at the ccle br:.ted ''Heidel-
berg tive-pfenni@ ciyar''--one cent Of
American currency-yet the nve-pfen-
nig cigar is far from bad. 1t is about
half rs long as Il mans MIDDLE finger.
round aud very thick III the middle.
1t costs the dealer abons 50 cents per
100. The Heidelberg ,lcaicr sells roth
ing else; he caters only 10 students.
An American would have. Il bad quar-
ter of an hour unless provided with his
favorite weed.
1he student becomes prosperous ait
er having been gra duated; he taxes
again to two and one-hulf cent cigars
and smokes them til lie reaches the
age of 40 or 10. when lie begins his
pipe-smoking career.
To understand how important the
art of smoking is and what a large
part 1t plays in the ia tons life. one
has but to look at the pa raphernalia of
German smoker. Every one carries
clgar-case. a cigal'-c!ipper, II match
safe and little leat1ex box for the
cigar tips. The cigar-c.lse Is indispen-
sable, because the cig ars are so dry
they would crack to pi eces if carried
loosely in The pocket. For the same
reason the clipper is waited. Then
the smoker wants 10 kcep the tips.
They are collected by a society or
ganized for the purpose in each prov
ince and are sold back. to the manu-
facturer for the benefit of charitable
institutions. Thcu Il ma tch safe is
necessary, since German g riquette for
bids carrying anything-k1 lie. money,
matches uncovered III tno pocket.
No wonder he reScnts any attempt
ut taxation of tobacco. n ~ hole group
of industries are bound rIir with the en-
joyment Of his smoke. svff=faer from a
two and one-haIf-c mt i@lr or the
Weichselho}z stem oilat l.c 4nlds rs
dear as the weddisag-rirg- - Elicago
Times.
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