The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05
SMOKING AND PIPES.
Americans, Red and White the First
to Use the Soothing Pipe.
EUROPEANS NOW THEIR PATRONS
A ChsDter Of Interest 10 Tobacco Users and
the Opinions Of an Experienced Dealer
on tha Subject

"Why don't keep a large and more
varied stock Of pipes on handT because
it wouldn' pay, | couldn't sell EN-, SAID
a dealer in tobacco smokers articles in
answer TO an inquiry. at seems some
what strange too, - he continued, rather
strange that pipes for the smoking OF
tobacco should be more generally used
by Europeans than Americans, when we
consider that they were used on this con-
tincn, FOR ages before they were known
anywhere else It's a fact that strlkesan
European as noliceable--amid all other
surroundings, strange, familiar or ncon'
gruous-upon arrival in this country
that Americans are rarely seen on the
streets with tobacco pipes in their mouths
Whereas 10 England, France and Ger
many. smokers of almost every class ol
society appear in public with a pipe In
accordance with the common custom OF
the country. The outdoor use Of the
pipe seems to be entirely non permissible
in our own land; the cigar-in many
cases of rather doubtful quality--or the
alleged harmful cigarette, being univer
sally smoked"
you say tobacco pipes were IN use in
this country before anywhere else.
"Well, ablut that matter of being in
early use hero In The mounds dis
covered in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and
Ohio. specimens Of the most ancient pipes
known have been found. Icy antiquaIians
this is considered to be ey lence that the
custom of smoking tobacco pipes origi-
mated in this country and prevailed for a
long time-how long TO one can tell
prior to the discovery Of the continent by
Christopher Columbus. Did you ever
see any If these relics of q PIE h storic
race? You didntf Well while the most
of those discovered are cut out of a single
niece of stone and are carved in various
fanciful figures, remains of clay pipes
have also been found These specimens
ofpipes should be possessed of no small
amount Of interest to lovers OF the weed,
as indicating that the custom of smoking
tobacco existed even in the pre- Columbian
era. In consequence"
LAS you should know something about
tobacco, give your candid opinion as to
its efec upon those who use it,
In the words Of a recent writer on the
uses and abuses OF tobacco: 1t is rather
late in the day to enter a protest against
theuse of tobacco. Whatever the faculty
may say on the point OF its injurious
qualities, however much tire clergy may
point out the possibility Of its leading to
intempemnce, the fact remains that a
large proportion of the world uses tobacco
in some form or other-and may add,
so it will continue to the end of the
world. But, as | was saying; in conse-
.quence of pipes Of metal having been
frequently found in connection with
Roman remains, some discussion has
been aroused among antiquarians whether
tobacco smoking was known or not on
the European continent previous to the
discovery of America. The best authori.
ties have, however, given it as their
opinion that such pipes were anciently
used for smoking hemp, a practice to
which the ancients are believed to have
been addicted The introduction Of the
tobacco pipe into Europe may be reason.
ably said TO date from the time when the
weed itself was taken there by Raleigh
in the 10Th century. The first governor
of Virginia is said to have presented an
Indian pipe to Raleigh, and this being in.
troduced in England was the projenitor
of all existing forms Of pipes. 1t IS Ger.
tain that all nations learned from the
English the art of making clay and other
kind of pipes.
Where are the various kinds of pipes
manufactured
"The principal centre Of the manufac-
ture Of clay pipes is situated at Broseley
in Statfordshire England, where the
manufacture was established early in the
17th century. France is celebrated for
the manufacture of wooden pipes Of all
kinds, especially those made from what
is known as brar root. This is the wood
of the tree heath which possesses great
hardness and beauty OF grain. Great
skill is requisite to avoid waste when cut
ting out the pipes, which are subjected to
apecuiar process of boiling in oil to bring
out the rich red brown hue so much ad
mred in good briar root, by connois
seur's in pipes. The genuine French
briar root pipes are expensive, but are
possessed Of certain qualities of sweet
ness, etc, highly appreciable by smokers,
and existing in none Of the numerous
limitations which are sold at lower
figure AS aptly as the clay may be said
to rs the plebeian of pipes, so may the
meeTschaum be termed the aristocrat
Germany has long been celebrated for the
manufacture Of meerschaum pipes, and
some Of the most beautiful are made in
Vienna. The limitations of meerschaum
take wide range but none equal the
genui e article, which is par excellence
the material for a tobacco pipe, on ac-
count of its porousness and lightness Of
weight. BY its porousncss it readily alb
serbs the nicotine, thereby obvating
much annoyance to the smoker. Speak
ing from smokers standpoint, a well
colored meerschaum pipe is sindeed IA thing
Of beauty and joy forever Clay pipes
as well as meerschaum are cleanly on
account of their porous qualities, but that
cannot be said of the porcelain pipes,
which lack powers Of ABSORPTION, as"
by whom were porcelain pipes first
introduced2
They were first made in Germany.
You see, after the introduction of tobacco |
into England, the habit of smoking |
spread with astonishing rapidlty, and by |
degrees Dipes of IA Darticular firm, and /