Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-07-10
COMFORT FOR SMOKERS.
How to Know a Good Pipe and Thus
Have Its Soiace.

Have Its Solace.
Not one smoker in thousand or per
haps in ten thousand knows the ele-
ments of good pipe. declares a writer
in the Technical World. Sage atten-
ton is paid to the pipe material, be it
wood, clay or cOTncob, but all of this
has little If anything to do with TIE
qualities of a pipe. Practically moth
ing whatever is thought of shape and
proportion. he two things that make
a pipe good or bad.
An engineer will talk by the hour
over the draft of o. fireboxes and
never once in half a lifetime think of
the draft in his pipe that he smokes
hourly. Yet the question of a good or
a poor pipe is bound up in that single
word, draft.
In q pipe made on right principles
the bowl is as narrow and deep as is
convenient; the hole in the stem meets
the bowl at the very bottom and In
the center, thus insuring perfect and
even draft, hence 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 are
thick to keep in the heat, thus making
the burning at the same temperature
at the edges of the tobacco as in the
center and when the pipe is not puffed
preventing undue cooling
Needless to say, tobacco should be
consumed at an even temperatures; to
vary it from high to low for any cause
ruins the flavor of the best kinds of
the weed 1t is commonly known that
cake adds to the good smoking quail
ties of a pipe. This is due to two
causes; the cake, being mineral, stays
hot when the pipe is not pulled and
also being of different material from
the bowl prevents the loss of heat
By cool pipe one means a dry pipe,
and this all depends on the stem, not
ON the bowl \ cool pipe or a hot pipe
has little to do with the actual heat OF
the smoke coming from the stem into
the mouth. but depends upon the chem
zeal qualities of the smoke Any to-
bacco smoked at different tempera-
lures produces different chemical re-
suits, and the tastes of these are false
" laid to the material Of the pipe in
stead Of to its construction.
In a poor pipe the hole in the stem
meets the bowl mt one side. not in the
center In consequence the draft is
every where 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. spoils all the tobacco in the
bowl.
Not only Is the tobacco burned badly,
but zone along the line of consump-
ton Is merely char ed and smolders.
Besides this, the u burned but highly
heated tobacco ont Of the line of draft
Is more or less distilled, the fiavors
from which mlngle with those from the
charred portion and the unevenly burn
ed tobacco something 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. Push
the reed little farther in and you
have good pipe.
All fancy types of pipes are apt to
be no good whatever. The plain bowl
aud stem are the best. All contrivances
to catch or to absorb the nicotine only
drive man to cigars or out of the
house The reason of this Is that the
liquid wastes from a 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 aud easily is cleaned out Ell
tber after or before each smoke or
there can be no smoke worthy the
name.