The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-20
HOW TO SMOKE A PIPE.
Ways To Get Most Enjoyment Out of
 Tobacco.

From Tid Bits.
 Of the several ways in which tobacco is used, the original one of smoking it in a pipe is undoubtedly the least harm full.
 If it is not begun too early in life or carried to an excess it is, perhaps, diff ficult to prove that pipe smoking is in furious in any degree whatever.
 The best pipe is made of briar root, with a short and straight, or very slight ly curved stem. The mouthpiece sha1ld be amber or ebonized gutta percha. Such a pipe is easy to hold in the mouth and does not interfere with reading.
 When breaking In a new pipe it should be filled with cold water for moment or two before filling and lighting. This should be repeated for half a dozen or more times, in order that the char shall begin to form without really burning the wood. It is not necessary or desirable to dry out the bowl before every filling, but merely to turn out the water.
 Another point about the treatment of a new pipe Is not to smoke up all the tobacco until 1t is somewhat seasoned. The weakest part of pipe Is the bottom of the bowl and many old smokers make a practice of always leaving pinch or so of tobacco unburnt in it.
 When char begins to make the bowl of the pipe appreciably smaller 1t should be cut out If this is not done the differ ence in the contraction and expansion of char and of the wood will cause the bowl to split open.
 But care must be taken in cutting away the char not to remove it all. When 1t is cut too thin the wood will burn, and make the fact known in extreme cases by frequent cracking sounds. In such cases the breaking-in process should be resorted to again.
 A long bradawl of medium size is the best implement with which to clean out the wooden part of a pipestem. When away from home bit of steel wire of the size used in making bicycle spokes will answer very we'll It can be con veniently carried in pencil case along side of a pencil. A straightened hairpin will generally do in default of anything better.
 But the great point of all In pipe smok-
  this habit is acquired the full flavor of the tobacco will always be enjoyed, every smoke will be cool one, and tongue burning will be unknown.
 It is, however, very hard for nervous people to smoke slowly. We know of cases where smokers have tried for years to check their smoking speed, without success They probably did not begin to make the effort early enough in their smoking careers.
 With good tobacco and a root pipe the slow smoker attains degree of pleas urable enjoyment in smoking of which the rapid smoker has not an inkling
 Perhaps all smokers do not know that it makes any difference in the flavor of pipe tobacco how many times a pipe goes out A cigar which Is allowed to go out once has its flavor ruined, and is most appreciably termed a butt" A pipe. however, tastes, if anything, better for going out.
 Fastidious smokers always have at least two pipes at. hand, and never fill one unless it has entirely cooled off. This is a help toward cool smoking and req sonable life in pipe.
 A>good test by which to tell if you are your hand If 1t is too hot to do so, then you may know that your speed is too great.