The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-11-07
W. va, NOV. I, loo3.
PIPE SMOKING.

The custom of smoking tobacco in
pipes has prevailed in America for pc.
Rod of unknown duration, prior to the
discovery of the continent by Columbus
Its origin will never be known, but its
antiquity is proven by the pipes found
in mounds or tumuH called pipe mounds
in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa
There is some dispute as to whether pipes
for smoking were known in Europe be.
lore discovery of America. Iron, bronze
and clay pipes are found in Roman re.
mains and antiquities, and it is supposed
that they were used for the smoking of
aromatic herbs or hemp. However, it il
certain that the smoking of tobacco was
not known before the american cont.
nent was discovered.
Tobacco was then taken to Europe
and with the growth of this country the
use of it spread with increasing rapidity
until today large majority of the men
smoke pipes.
But does this large majority of people
smoke pipes for the intrinsic enjoyment
they get out of itl No. Generally when
one begins the smoking of a pipe he is
young man not yet out of his teens.
lie does not want to begin smoking a
pipe of tobacco for the real enjoyment
he can get out of it. He sees some bust
ness man smoking pipe and thinks how
big it will be for him to smoke pipe
too. He thinks if he has a stylish look.
ing pipe in his teeth that he looks manly.
lie thinks it makes him look bigger and
a more important being in the commun.
ity, He thinks, too, that a pipe in his
mouth, besides making him look big,
older and important, is becoming to him.
He thinks it adds to his looks and makes
him look pretty.
With these things prompting him. he
begins to smoke pipe. By the time
he is few years older he finds that the
excessive use Of the tobacco has rendered
him slave to the weed. Smoking has
fastened its hold upon him, and habit
makes him crave for the narcotic. Habit
is like thread. By and by we weave it
into cable and it is beyond our strength
to break it.
A young man does not smoke a pipe
because he likes it. He simply thinks he
likes it. lie wants to like it because
he thinks it is smart to smoke a pipe
When he begins the habit down deep il
his heart he knows that he does moi
like it. But he persuades himself that
it is good and sweet and enjoyable, un
til finally, by continually easing hi.
mind that way he has almost convinced
himself that he does like it.
The above reasons why the smoking
Of pipes becomes a habit will apply tt
eight men out of every ten who smoke
pipes. Eight men out of ten become
habitual smokers without knowing why
they smoke pipes, and the habit wreaks
injury to their physical and mental con
dition.
But, ont of the ten men, two really
find their enjoyment out Of pipe smoking
They do not commence smoking for thu
looks of the thing. They do not com.
mencc before they are hardly old enough
to know their own minds. They com,
mence smoking for the true enjoyment
they can get out OF it. Smoking with
them does not become a habit. Whcr
they want to smoke pipe, they do not
CAD up and down the principal streets of
the city with their hair plastered down
in lyre-shaped curls over their brow and
handsome Meerschaum pipe in their
teeth. They 60 home, sit in an easy chair
take their evening town paper and a
cool, sweet smoke is heaven to them.
They know how to smoke. Or, if in the
seclusion of Bohemia, when jolly set
of good fellows are gathered around the
club room hearth, they recline in the
luxury of a soft chair, tell stories and