The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-08
sWELES ARE SMOKING PIPES

Cigars Are No Longer the style for smok-
on the Street.
From the New York Sun.
The Englishman Is often recognized
upon the streets of New York by his
pipe, but many Englshmen smoke
pipes In public places abroad who
would not smoke them in the streets
of London. Pipe smoking in the streets
by well-dressed natives is certainly
commoner in New York than 1t was
ten years ago, and the pipe is more
than ever popular wherever etiquette
does not prohibit its use. The pipe, in
fact, has every possible advantage over
the cheap cigar, and the great advan-
tage of cheapness over the expensive
cigar. With the increased rage for
pipe smoking come increased demands
for the meerschaum. More than 30
years ago students in this country be-
gan to affect the meerschaum, having
imported the thing and the habit from
Germany. The best meerschaums now
come from Vienna, and the earlier
craze for ornamental meerschaum Is
reviving. One form of decoration upon
the meerschaum is a photograph, per-
haps of the owner, perhaps of his
sweetheart or wife or child. The young
Establishments habit of hiring a man to
color his meerschaum has never been
widely adopted i'm this country, and
the thought of the thing is certainly
unpleasant, since the coloring is done
by a most unattractive professional
person who smokes shag. the black
est, strongest and meanest of tobaccos.
There are. however. enough men In
New York anxious for well-colored
meerschaums to keep going several
pipe hospitals, where meerschaums are
carefully treated in order that they
may color in the best fashion. There
.oI. ~ FOL fxth
Here you may have your meerschaum
plugged or waxed to prevent it's too
rapid coloring. Here also you may
have Ii treated in half a dozen differ
ent ways, mended If broken. cleaned TX
too thoroughly saturated with nicotine.
and doubtless, colored If you have not
the smoking energy to color 1t your
self.
The briar pipe is still more widely
popular thant he meerschaum. 1t Is
difficult to obtain in this country a GER
| tain English briar bearing mysterious
| initials. You do find the initiated pipe.
| burt 1t Is usually not the right thing,
and comparatively few smokers know
| the right briar from the wrong. The
| French briar which is sold here is de-
| cidedly inferior to the best English
briars. The corncob pipe is really the
| national American pipe, and it is one
/ of the sweetest and best pipes known,
| and has the advantage of being ex-
| tremely cheap. For so cents a man
may buy enough corncob pipes to last
| him a doez nyears. There are French,
| English, Irish, Turkish and American
| clay pipes-red, white, and all of them
good. The English Guilty pipe and the
| Irish immigrants dudheen are very
| comfortable pipes and cheap. The En-
| glish coster is about the only man who
/ takes pains to color a Guilty pipe. He
| does the coloring with the utmost care
by persistent smoking. The English
| NAVY, by the way, is the only man
/ who smokes his Guilty pipe with the
bowl down. He has reason for this
| that other smokers profes to be ignor-
ant of. Englishmen insist that it Is
| not the pipe that marks the English
| man, but the rubber folding tobacco
| pouch that is his strongest mark.
America and England are the greatest
tobaccosmoking countries in the world.
| save perhaps Turkey, but the tradi-
tions of smoking in the two countries
are vastly different. The small tobac-
conist I'm England is a very different
person fro mthe small tobacconist in
the United States. The English tobac-
conist is likely to be a retired butler
or an old soldier, or a man who has
followed the races, and he usually
| makes a little book on the various turf
| events. English tobacconist signs used
TO be picturesque and significant.
abel Drugger," the tobacconist of
Ben Johnson's play, THE Alchemist,"
was represented on a tobacconist sign
of a little more than a century ago.
Drugger stands in knee breeches be-
tween two tobacco plants