New-York tribune., 1910-06-25
PIPES OF MANY LANDS
Facts from History of Smoking
When Tobacco Is 81 Ounce.

When tobacco was first introduced into
| England the pipes IN which ir was used
We're made of walnut shells. ordinary
straws serving for stems Smoking was
then luxury for the very rich. as tobacco
sold for something more than 81 an ounce.
1t appears. however. that the precious
stlnke'-for it was thus King James stis-
matted the fragrant weed in his coun-
terbtaSt against tobacco-became wonder
fully popular in a very short time John
Aubrey, in his History of Wiltshire" says
that: In these days the .gentiImen had
silver pipes. The ordinary sort s.,ake use
Of a walnut shell and a straw. 1 have
heard my grandfather Isyte say one pipe
was handed from man to man round the
table. Within these thirty-fve years twas
scandalous for a divine to take tobacco"
Walnut and straw pipes were soon super
5eded by clay pipes, and the Great Plague
gave an additional impetus to smoking. for
IL was SAID tnat none OF the tObacCOniSrS
oled from the disease, ssys 1.-THE London
Globe Pepys speaks Of il in unis connec-
ton In his Diary, Il was forced, he says.
to buy some roll tobacco 10 smell to and
to chaw." The best clay pipes were made
at Amesbury, OF Chiltern clay. and those
made by a man of the name OF Gauntlet.
were especially favored. For some mex
plIcable reason the earliest clay pipes were
known generally as 'elfins.'
CIayS were Al one time Mighty ornament
ed. and there was great demand for pipes
bearing the heads OF popular or unpopular
people. When the Duke of Wellington tried
to stop smoking II the army he was rep
resented on pipe-bowI with his nose un-
duly exaggerated and a fiery glitter in his
eye while the stem OF the pipe showed a
subaltern with his fingers TO mis- nose
Great variety was shown In many OF these
pipes, especially those which hailed from
Germany. pipe from this country made
nlR1IR6nfn fz In ~I.,F 80 -
soldier with silver arnor; his head lifts
up and his body makes the bowl of t6e
pipe, Wh;le the smoker inhales through a
very prehensile toe. Some very beautff,lI
pipes We're made of Venetian glass bI!t
tDey are far too precious to have ever beer
lily intended The Black F0Tes+ ninks n H9i-b
us enormous DoWI, capable OF holding quite
nan an ounce OF tobacco, inspires a re-
sptso spectLol awe IN the breast Of any smoker
save Ieuton. With their painted china
bowls, long, flexible stems and tassaiIa1
fo, fGoTas, these pipes are very handsome 10
icok at, and, with the very mild to6acco
commonly smoked in them ave noora 80
InIdaote IN appearance than in reality
me Laplanders fashion their pipes o,It
oI LINN IRON and walruS teeth while fhs
natives or West Africa use wood and bo-1s
ana req clay and the South African ary1
Pioys soapstone- The most interesting for
elgn pipe Is the Eastern hookah. and IN is
at the same time the most healthy tbe bs
most sanitary and the most pleasant for
the smoke. passing as II does fbro,,e-r
water. loses all It's acrid properffes TSIss L
hookahs. or hdbbIe-bubbles, are often raosf
DeautirulIy made, and very handsome. an
seiutely different to the humble .'NargRiia :,
with which they are not infrequentIv con
FUSED Narghile is native Indian For
cocoanut. and this is what these pines are
partly made of the nut acting as the re-
ceptacle for the nicotine The red Tndien
war pipe Is an ordinary long stemned nine
attached TO the head of a hatchet Quite
dinerent Is the calumet, or pipe OF peace
which has stem about two and a hair
feet long painted and decorated with
A rev years ago there was a tremendous
boom in neerschaum pipes, and Smokers
them But ike all crazes il wore itself nI,T
and nowadays comparatively few men
SmOlSe UeerSchaum in preference 10 q
briar. There Is something more homaIv In
an old briar pipe than in anything else.