New-York tribune., 1907-05-27
THE ART OF PIPE SMOKING.
Some Advice to Smokers on How Best to
Enjoy Tobacco.

With most smokers. kind OF pipe seems to
do, and sort of tobacco provided that it smokes
cool Generally speaking. n man has only one
pipe. which ne keeps going all day and every dav
until II burns through. becomes so indescrbably
foul that further use Is impossible. Then the pipe
IS thrown away, 4 new one is purchased. and the
same process begins again. People OF this class
says THE London Globe" and probably they form
the great majority of pipe smokers. never really
enjoy their tobacco With them smoking is a ma bit
only. Their tobacco is invariably strong doctored
stun. as nothing else Will burn cool in a chrOn-
ically foul pipe; and they bubble through so many
ounces a week contendedly enough, because never
having tried the more excellent way they have
no notion that they losing half the eniovmeur
possible with the right consumption of good to-
bacco. The first fault lies. OF course in the to-
bacco itself. The law allows a certain percentaSe
or moisture, which is about twice as much as is
needful to secure the proper rate of combustion
This the manufacturers know very well; but as
water is much cheaper than tobacco leaf il is sell
uom that manufacturer is aItrustic enough To
send out his wares with less moisture than the
law allows. Nearly all packet tobaccOs ought 10
be laid out in the sunshine. In gentle heat and
half the water dried out of them before consurnp-
ton. Smoked in this way. from clean pipe prop
T eTIy loaded pure unblended honeydew will have
an the nayor that the most eXacting smoker could
aeSire and there will not be the slightest tendency
TO burn the tongue. which is the great fault with
light tobaccos as at present sold
Just as important as the condition of the tobacco
pipe, with Wide bore the stem is the best be-
cause II Is easy to clean with few twists OF a
ITTdther. No doubt feathers are the finest pipe
cleaners In the country, casual stroll through
any farmyard will result i'm collection OF feathers
enough to last an ordinary smoker six months But
even in the towns these be come bv ut 10
tobacco. the great secret of enioyabe pipe smoking
Is Is 10 TO nave battery OF pipes. so that frequent
smoke smoke particular pipe more than once in day.
When done with. IT should be cleaned AMI stood in
the rack bowl downward; and all pipes should
@ nT used IN rotation There is a great art too IN
filling pipe. II the tobacco is crammed i'm zap
1 and {u1t tly-
packed pipe is the cause of more tongue biisters
than even An Ill conditioned half drowned tobacco.
smoker has to deal with Old hands cannot he
sure Of always exactly hitttng the right degree of
even density throughout the bowl ard beginners
invariably make hotch of IT, Some people will
never master the thing in lifetime, try as they
delights of cigar and cigarette smoking; cr at
least. haye to put up with mixtures which, by
fool proof from this point of view.
A perfectly filled pipe should light at once in an
evenly glowing disk, and should burn through al
most to the bottom uninterruptedly. preserving
slightly coned shape the whole time a curious
ing is the way in which the formation OF the
on the inside of the boWvsries With defsnt
smokers. It does not appear to depend on the
some mysterious attribute OF the user With some
smokers this cake grows TaPidly , and must he as
lection is just as slow In either case the interior
frequent sorapings. This insures the rim hre''
necessary for the cone shaped burning; rough
many people the first smoke from new pipe is al
ways terror but the breaking in of new briar
ordinary way. 1t must be done by some sort OF
bellows arrangement A bicycle pump IS rot a
keepers, called a bingham Smoker, which effects
be packed hard with the strongest and 1uiciest
tobacco ohtainable. 1t is then lighted and drawn
suffice for this when it is laid on the table and
blown steadily until the charge is all consumed
in the rack and take its turn with the rest