The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-27
APoTaEosIs "a THE PIPE.
Benefcent Influence Exercised Upon
Smokers by It's Habitual Use.


A properly dispositioned pine has an
indeflnable something constantly lowering
IN the azure wreaths which float over il
as IN benedictiOn. Just what is this
mysterious essence no man. not even the
most orthodox smoker. may with assur-
ance say But certain il is that this
beneficent influence is always there TO
console You IN the moments of gloom or
TO enjoy with you the periods of un-
clouded happiness.
1t may be urged by some other barbar-
ian that this. soothing propensity is a
quality of tobacco as weed and no
especial property OF the pine It must
OF necessity be that they have never
known the delights OF a true pipe. their
speech betrayeth them For a cigar is an
acquaintance, but a pipe IS a friend. You
crop INTO the drug store and upon the
most superficial examination pick out the
brown rolls or the plants leaves which
strike you fancy as the best Of the lot
there presented. It bears the traces of
being the most casual and offhand, ac-
quaintance and destined to end shortly
when your new-found and easily made
friend is Of no further use to YOU. How
delightfully."- different the details of your
association with the pipel Here We have
no hastily formed conclusions as TO the
worth OF the one that you are admit
ting 10 your cOmpaniOnship, but instead
a careful and deliberate search until you
nave found Just the one You instinct
lively feel that this pipe was made from
the beginning for YOU and no one else.
And then from the long days and nights
and your friend the pipe become as near
akin as man and wife: indeed, a great
deal nearer than some couples in these
days.
You pick the old pipe up some winter
evening. and as you turn il over and
around in your hand. preparatory to fill
ing II with the weed that brings the color
TO its cheek. you look at the many lit
tie things about it that speaks to you
OF past days over a cigar a man may
plan out feats of finance or mediate up
on the dTeary sameness of other shop
but with a pipe alone is he in proper
mood TO flush refreshing glimpses of the
past as this
Think for a moment of a man stand
ing at the wheel of a flying sIOOp. the
lib we'll rounded. and drawing with every
inch of her, the boom washed by the
Scrubblng foam-and the skipper with a
between his lipsas Here in the
midst OF glorious action, as in the sOoth-
ing quiet beside the hearth later on, the
pipes the thing.
Think. too. of the morality of the pipe
Does Diamond Dick, on the stage ever
fail to light a cigarette as he bergains
for the carrying off of fair Angelica, or
is the heavy villain in the novel ever
Pickering the ash from his cigar pre-
paratOry to plunging into his most
depth Of wickedneSS " no ever
heard of a pipe smoker behaving in such
a reprehensible manner
Granted that there be some poor souls
that know not, as yet the JOY freely
offered to them by the pipe. The hcen-
tiateS of this order. who are without eX-
CeptiOn altTuiStiC, can but breathe a
prayer, between pUffs- that the glowing
bowl may come TO warm their cold hearts.
and the murky clouds of prejudice may
at length be driven from their minds by
the soothing wreaths arising like incense
from the pipe