The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-19
TO KNOW A GOOD PIPE.
Importance of Draught and of Cake
 A Cool Pipe

A Cool Pipe.
 Not one smoker in thousand or perhaps in ten thousand, knows the elements of a good pipe, declares a writer in the Technical World. Sage attention is paid to the pipe material, be 1t wood, clay or corncob; but of all this has little if anything to do with the qualities of a pipe. Practically nothing whatever is though of shape land proportion, the two things that make pipe good or bad.
 An engineer will talk by the hour over the draught of his fireboxes and never once in half a lifetime think of the draught' in his pipe that he smokes hourly. Yet the question of a good or 8 poor pipe is bound up in that single word, draught.
 In pipe made on right principles the bowl is as narrow and deep as is convenient; the hole in tie stem meets the bowl at the very bottom and in the centre, thus insuring a perfect and |even draught, hence a complete and even burning of the tobacco.
 The cake prevents the fire from burning the bowl, and thus prevents making it's bore larger or uneven, which would in proportion spoil the draught.
 The sides of tae bowl are thick to keep in the heat, thus making the burning at the same temperature at the edges of the tobacco as in the cen tre, and when the pipe is not puffed preventing undue cooling.
 Needless to say, tobacco should be consumed at an even temperature; to vary it from high to low for any cause ruins the flavor of the best kinds of the weed. It is commonly known that a cake adds to the good qualities of a pipe This Is due to two causes; the cake, being mineral, stys | hot when the pipe is not puffed; and also, being of different material from the bowl, prevents the loss of heat. By a cool pipe one means a dry pipe, and this all depends on the stem, not on the bowl. A cool or a hot pipe has ! little to do with the actual heat of smoke coming from the stem into tae mouth, but depends upon the chemical qualities of the smoke
 Any tobacco smoked at different temperatures produces different chemi- cal results, and the tastes of these are falsely laid to the material of the pipe instead of to it's construction. | In a poor pipe the hole in the stem meets the bowl at one side, not in the centre. In consequence the draught is everywhere uneven, and over Elalf of the pipe except on the very surface, there is no burning of the tobacco at all. This is not only waste, but, which is forse, spells all the tobacco In the bowl,
 Not only is the tobacco burned badly, but zone along the line of consumption Is merely charred and shoulders; besides this, the unburned but highly heated tobacco out of tie line of draugllt is more or less distlll- ed, the f1avors from which mingle with those from the charred portion and the unevenly burned tobacco something to weep and cough over.
 The same thing Is noticed in corn cob pipe, when the reed stem is TUT into tle bowl only to It's inner edge push the reed little further in ant you have a good pipe,
 i Besides forming the cake common tt all pipes, the corcob is light in weight hence is easily held between the teeth moreover, being of a cellular struc ture and full of dead air, the corneol retains the heat in the bowl, causin' an even burning, weheas many othei substances, like clay iron or a dense eleavy wood, without the cake, change temperature rapidly up and down th scale, almost with every puff.
 All fancy pipes of pipes are apt to b no good whatever. The plain bowl an, stem are the best All contrivances t
 catch or to absorb the nicotine onl.
 drive a man to cigars or out of tn
 house. The reason of this Is that tn
 liquid wastes from pipe are mostl
 tar, and if held in the pipe in out o
 the way health corners, decay and be
 come a horror to the smoker.
 In plain pipe, all this waste mat
 ter must be, and easily is, cleaned ou
 either after or before each smoke, o
 there can be no smoke worthy tn !