Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-01-07

finely gilded.- The pipes are filed with
the dry leaves Of the tobacco and other
aromatic herbs, rose leaves, etc. and
then they are lighted"
When Ponce de Leon visited Florida
for the first time he found the natives
devoted to the tobacco habit, but their
way of indulging in it was different from
the Aztecs. The Tloridans used hol-
low vessels Of burned clay into which
they inserted reed pipes. The vessels
were filed with the dry tobacco leaves,
and the smoke drawn through the reed.
This smoking utensil was the prototype
of the tobacco pipe of to-day, but did
not attain any popularity at first. Six
decades later Sir Walter Raleigh landed
with his expedition in Virginia, where
the colonists came in close contact with
the native Indians. The latter used
the same kind of tobacco pipes as the
Floridans, and soon the colonists had
accustomed themselves to the use of the
herb. The mathematician, Thomas
Hariot, q former teacher of Sir Walter,
wrote the first letters to Europe prais-
ing the qualities of tobacco. The vir-
ginia colony was no success, and Sir
Francis Drake brought the men back
10 England, landing them in 1856 in
Plymouth harbor. Here they created
great astonishment, for tobacco smok-
ing was seen for the first time in Eng
land. The Indian clay pipes found ad-
mirers and the habit of the returning
colonists was contagious. Soon one
could see everywhere in England men
with tobacco pipes, ard in 1893 smoking
in London theaters was common. The
herb was imported from America, but
the burned clay pipes were manufac-
tured by English potters, and as early
as 1919 the guild of London pipemakers
was incorporated. In 1890 English stu
dents introduced the habit in Holland.
The fact that tobacco smoking tempo
rarily overcomes hunger and thirst
made it soon popular in the English and
Dutch armies, and during the Thirty
Years war the soldiers of Wallenstein
and lilly acquired the habit from them.
During the Seventeenth century to-
bacco was smoked from pipes formed
after the Virginia pattern, but with the
increasing popularity of the smoking
habit efforts were made to improve and
perfect the smokers utensils, and many
were the changes in style and material
during the evolution Of the rude Indian
pipe TO the perfect and artistic speci-
mems of our day.
In the civilized countries cigar and
cigarette smoking has during the last
few decades largely crowded out the
tobacco pipe, but the by far larger ma
jority of smoking humanity all over the
globe still adheres to the pipe, which in
many cases has become a national char
acteristic.
The Turk loves the chibook, with
its red clay bowl, its long stem of
weichsel and its mouthpcce of amber.
and frequently adorns it with gold and
precious stones. In the farther orient,
in Arabia, Persia and India, the water
pipe or nargleh is in high favor.
The Japanese smoke from metal
pipes, which are frequently of the most
exquisite workmanship, being inlaid
with gold and silver. In the country of
the millado even young girls smoke
dainty little pipes the size of a thimble,
which have short brownish bamboo
stems with metal mouthpieces.
The Kirghcse bore "a side hole into a
mutton bone, fill the narrow cavity
with tobacco and smoke through this
primitive apparatus. Very simple is
q Siberian pipe, which consists of the
followed root of tree. Next to this
another pipe of the same country made
of roughly-carved wood and adorned
with tin mountings looks like work of
art. The latter pipe has also something
which no other pipe possesscs-an adj
Unstable wooden protector for the bone
mouthpiece.
1t has been asserted that not all of
the tobacco pipes of the Asiatic and