Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-03-22

Characteristics Of the styles which
Some Smoker Prefer.

some smoker Prefer.
Most of the plain meerschaum pipes
sold nowadays are of practically the
same styles as briar pipes, and fin
ished and mounted in the same man.
ner. Of the once familiar meer.
schaum, that was substantially a
meerschaum bowl with a short us,.
turned stem part, into which WEIGH
sci stempiece was inserted, compara-
lively few are sold now. Many of the
meerschauzn pipes OF to-day are of the
bulldog pattern, and many are made
likewise ight-stemmed, but with
bowls III various rounded forms, and
these are briar-shaped pipes with drop
stems. The NOUN tings are silver or
gold bands, or ferruleS, around the
stem part. where the pit or mouth
piece is attached, and, on some pipes,
mounting around the top of the
oowl. I'm these pipe mountings Those
produced by americans excel all 9th
ers In suitability and design. Witl,
their production in modern styles and
In forms adapting them to the most
convenient and advantageous use has
become an increased demand for
pipes OF merschaum.
Such are the pi pes usually bought
by the American or Englishman, who,
1T he smokes a meerScaum, wants a
stout, stocky, serviceable pipe. There
are sold, however, some meerschaums
THAT are modelled more on clay pipe
lines, with the stem part and mouth
piece little, if amy, longer, but very
much slenderer and lighter than
those parts of the pipes more common
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the Gngllshman prefer generally
when they buy meerschanm a good.
solid pipe, the Frenchman who smokes
a meerschaum wants long and slen-
der pipe, as also does the Italian.
The plain meerschaum pipe made
for the French or italian smoker is in
design substantially like a clay pipe,
with a bowl of the same general
shape, though of finer lines, and with
the same long, slender STEM But
made of such a material as meer.
schamm and beautifully finished, and
with long, slender, delicate mouth
piece of amber, there is no danger OF
the pipe being mistaken for a clay
pipe. Simple, and AT the same time
Quaint, as such pipes may ait first ap.
pear to one unlaccustomed to them,
they may easily be objects of beauty,
as was certainly in an especial degree
one seem i'm a shop where many such
pipes were displayed. 1t was finished
in all but the polishing; was about a
foot in length, including the delicate
amber mouthpiece, which would meas.
ure perhaps four inches, and the
meerscha um was a smooth and milky
whfteness. while the long, slender am.
Der moWthpece was of Light yellow.
clouded with white.
Such pipes are made with the bowls
placed ait different angles, as is THE
case with clay pipes, and the bowls
are made rather thin walled than 9th
erwise, in keeping with the general
character of the pipe. These slender
meerschaurm pipes are made, some OF
them, with the stem fashioned to pre-
sent twist i'm appearance, but most
of them are made with the stem
straight and smooth. They are made
Including the amber-bit, or mouth.
piece, in various lengths, the price de.
pending on the length, and as with
other meerschamms on the quality
Such pipes of from eight TO twelve
inches in length are THE pipes of this
kind most commonly sold.-Philadel.
phiA Inquirer.