West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1907-07-04
CONFRONT FOR SMOKERS.
How TO Know a Good Pipe and Thus
Have Its Solaee.

Have Its Solace.
Not one smoker I'm n thousand or per
haps I'm ten thousand knows the ele-
ments OF n good pipe. declares n writer
I'm the Technical World Sage atten-
tion Is paid To the pipe material. be II
wood. clay or corncob but all OF this
has little II anything To- do with the
qualities OF pipe Practically moth
Ing whatever Is thought OF shape and
proportion. the two things that make
n pipe good or bad.
An engineer will talk by the hour
over the draft OF his flreboxes and
never once I'm half II lifetime think OF
the draft In his pipe that lie smokes
hourly. Yet the question OF good or
n poor pipe IL bound up In that single
word. draft
In pipe made on right principles
the bowl IL as narrow nnd deep as Is
convenient: the hole I'm the stcIn meets
the bowl at the very bottom ANA I'm
the center. thus iiisuring Il perfect and
even draft. hence n complete and even
burning OF the tobacco
The cake prevents the fire from
burning the bowl and thus prevents
making Its bore larger or uneven.
which would In proportion spoil the
draft The sides OF the bowl Nare
thick 10 keep In the heat. thus making
the burning ut the same temperature
Mt the edges OF the tobacco ms I'm the
center and when the pipe Is not pulled
preventing undue cooling
Needless To say. tobacco should be
consumed at an even temperature: 10
vary II from high TO low for any cause
ruins the flavor of the best kinds OF
the weed. II is commonly known that
| cake adds to the good smoking quail
ties OF pipe. This IL due to two
causes; the cake. being mineral. stays
hot when the pipe is not puffed, and
also being of different material from
the bowl prevents the loss Of heat.
| by cool pipe one means dry pipe
and this all depends on the stem, not
on the bowl. A cool pipe or hot pipe
has little to do with the actual heat OF
the smu.te coming from the stem into
the mouth, but depends upon the chem
ical qualities OF the smoke. Any to-
bAcco smoked at different tcmpera-
| lures produces different chemical re-
suits, and the tastes of these are false
| ~ laid to the material of the pipe I'm.
stead of TO It's construct Ion.
| In poor pipe the hole I'm the stem
meets the bowl at one side. not I'm the
center. In consequence the DRIFT H.
everywhere uneven. and over half of
the pipe except on the very surface
there Is no burning of the tobacco at
all. This is not only waste. but what
Is worse, spells all the tobacco In the
bowl
Not only Is the tobacco burned badly.
out zone along the line of conSuInp-
ton Is merely charred and smoldcrs.
Besides this, the unburned but highly
| heated tobacco out of the line of draft
Is more or less distilled the navors
from which mlnglc with tho{c from the
charred portion and the unevenly burn
ed tooacco-somethng to weep and
cough over.
The same thing is noticed In corn
cob pipe when the reed stem is run into
the bowl only to its inner edge rush
the reed little farther I'm and YOU
have Il good pipe
All fancy types OF pipes are apt to
be no good whatever. The plain bowl
and stem are the best. All cOntrivances
to catch or to absorb the nicotine only
drive man to cigars or ont OF the
house. The reason OF this Is that the
liquid wastes from pipe are mostly
tar. and If held in the pipe in out of
the way health corners decay and be.
come horror to- the smoker
In plain pipe all this waste matter
must be and easily Is cleaned out eli
Their after or before each smoke or
there can be no smoke worthy the
| name