St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-03
GIRLS WHO BUY PIPES.
The Costlier the Better - Give
Themselves Away Saying They
Are for Friends.
One Dealer Claims to Have Been
Selling Twenty a Day to
Women.


Pipes? Yes, pipes was what she
asked for.
please show me some of your small
est pipes," timidly asked young
woman of salesman behind the pipe
counter of big Broadway jewelry
store. want-er-a very-er-pretty
one.
Eyes. madam, do you want lady's
pipe?"
YES" almost whispered the girl.
while the blood flew furiously
to her face. 81 want a lady's pipe to
er-giye away to-er-a friend. Please
show me some very fine ones"
A few minutes later the young woman
departed, after paying for beautiful
briarwood pipe, covered with filigree
work of silver, which she left to be
marked with monogram.
That is the way with women" eX-
claimed the salesman, as his fair Gus
toner left the store with the bushes
still dyeing her cheeks. They ask for
little simple thing like pipe just as
II they were ashamed of it. And then
they wind up by declaring that it is for
some one else, although it would be
plain to deaf and dumb man that they
want 1t for their own use.
Now that girl told me that she
wanted the filigree work upon the pipe
to be i'll fleur-de-lis because there were
tieur-de-lis on a tobacco-iar on her
table. And she also said to leave out
the middle letter in the monogram she
ordered, as she did not care for her
middle name. After she saw that l
understood her little game she became
more at ease, and was almost confiden-
tial in telling me her likes and dis
likes in pipes. But, after all, girl re-
CARDS II delicate matter to buy pipe.
DO we sell many of them? Oh, dear.
yes. We have lately been averaging
twenty a day. And it keeps US busy
getting in steady supply of novelties.
GU see the winter was terrible one
the worst in fifty years. tae weather
man tells us-and, consequently the
Women Have Taken TO Smoking.
''Do they smoke TO keep warm? No.
of course not. They smoke by their
physicians orders. And the tobacco
they use isn't mans tobacco, by any
means. 1t has medicinal properties,
and is prescribed for the throat, the
lungs and the nerves.
what kind of tobacco do the women
smoke for their nerves? Usually a
oAhAoh oAoAOt tiC1C I'll e uO-
nestle brands that have the same
nerVe-soothing qualities. The favorite
Turkish tobacco comes III box Of Orl-
entail design, and is i'll long fine-cut
flakes. 1t has probably just suspicion
of opium in its com pOsition-juSt
enough to quiet the nerves.
lone of the prettiest pipes sold this
year had an amber mouthpiece set in a
silver stem. The stem was studded
with tiny turquoises. In the silver
bowl there was one large turquoise, di-
rectly on the front. We made the handle
and bowl rather heavy, SO as not to
heat through, for we feared that the
turquoise might become discolored. But
thus far it has remained delicate blue,
although the pipe is i'll constant use.
1--WE had an order few days ago for
a pipe for society belle. The order
came from ner mother, who almost tear
fully told us that her daughter had been
Ordered to Smoke
for the relief of a heavy cold in her
throat and head. She was to smoke
only cuDebS. But her mother mourned
the prescription as real misfortune.
fearing that through this simple means
her daughter would contract the habit
which history tells US has been the vice
of queens and other royal ladies since
tobacco was discovered.
"She gave US cart blanche and we
made the pipe as beautiful as we knew
how. 1t was all of meerschaum-as
spotleSS piece OF meerSchaum as You
ever Saw-and so delicate that it cannot
be handled by other than the fair hands
for which it was intended.
1.-The design of the pipe was
Senorita of the most languiShing type
IA Ani INtah xUff taar h.aa
hand, and her head was, of course, the
bowl of the pipe, while her body was
the stem. There was tiny amber
moHthpiece. The tobacco Jar was of
silver, with lovely maidens reclining
upon it, surrounded by clouds of smoke,
all done in silver chasing.
Around the top of the jar there ran
legend in Arabian characters, which,
being put in English, reads thus:
comfort thee! Icomfort theel
All sorrows flee,
When in my clouds compass thee.
Are there any women who smoke
just for fun and because they like 1t?
Oh. yes; but these are not the ones who
buy jeweled pipes. They are usually
cigarette smokers, and some of them
can smoke even q cigar without being
'phased.' Those who have contracted
the habit have the satisfaction of nam
ing large list of royal ptrsonages who
do the same.
but, as L said, woman dislikes to
come into a store and say, Il want to
buy pipe And if there is a handsome
young salesman in charge the chances
are that she will buy glove buttoner,
and walk out without mentioning pipes.
And that is why you usually see an old
gray-haired man like myself behind the
pipe counter OF a jewelry store"