The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-01-28

them. and their medical men, perhaps
tell them that the pipe i less Injurious
which is OF course a iact-and so before Try
ing themselves out as pipe smokers the
begin operations by laying in foolishl.
elaborate outfit OF pipes. smoking tobaccos
pipe cleaners, humidors for the tobacco anC
so on. I've seen chaps of this sort inyes
$50 or $40 III pipe smoking layouts beior'
they'd ever tried smoking a pipe. Well
any new pipe, no matter how good II Is i
more or less liable to bite the tongue be
fore il is broken in. and these high priced
mixtures that they always buy at the out
set bite the tongue all the time in my opin
ion and so they find from the Jump that
pipe smoking makes their tongues raw and
| blisters the roofs OF their mouths and al.
| ter their large investment they cancel all
| idea OF becoming pipe smokers and their
| layouts are on their hands If these same
fellows who are anxious to quit cigarettes
| for the pipe were first to try themselves
out with good. well seasoned pipe. filled
with an agreeable plug cut, they'd become
permanent converts to the pipe.
The men who stick along with the pipe
after trying il in spite OF bitten tongues
from the nifty kinds of smoking mixtures
soon get down to kind of cool, substan
tal tobacco without any fancy ingredients
tHdt dpfetS WIFI them, anu lIoIi tntH ou
they begin to extract the real kind of com
fort and soace from pipe. You'll not
find one sure enough tried and tested pipe
smoker out of fifty who smokes one of
these fancy mixtures,
'The longer man smokes a pipe the
more simple his taste becomes in the mat
ter of smoking tobacco The other day one
of my old customers, a man who buys his
cigars from me by the thousand, as well as
all of his smoking tobacco and other smo
kers supplies, came in.
Say, said he to me, this morning
took trudge through Madison square, on
my way to my office, and | found myself
walking behind fellow whose smoking to-
bacco smelt so Internally good that tossed
my cigar away SOS to enjoy it still more.
This fellow looked like longshoreman,
and probably he was 'longshoreman
Anyhow, after following him through the
square | stepped up to him and asked him |
what kind of tobacco he smoked. He |
pulled the bag out and showed me the name |
of it, It's in a paper bag and it's called |
49, and he gave me the name OF the |
brand
1T was laugh for me, for the brand he
named is favorite 'longshoreman's brand
and costs nickel paper bag. It's pure
tobacco at that. only of course it's pretty
rough stuff. | don't keep it, but | got
ayout of it for this customer, and he comes
n for it as he wants it and VOWS and vums
hat he hasn't extracted such ecstasy from
obacco as he does from this nickel-a-bag
lind since he first began to smoke pipe
orty years ago.
"See these little briar pipes? About four
rhiffs in them, Ell? Well, they're ladies'
'ipes. Just that; Pipes bought. by ladies
o be smoked. | don't label 'em ladies'
pes, but it's the ladies who buy them.
'hey're ladies who really like the pipe bet.
err than the cigarette or who are easing Off
18th doctors orders or to stop the staining .
{ their fingers from using cigarettes There :
eally are only about dozen 'inhales' in :
owl of this size and the ladies' who buy
lem purchase very mild brands of tobacco
be used in them. | sell these ladies
pes for 50 apiece, and I've sold lot of Il
lem. Never mind asking questions as to is
lie buyers of them. I'll say, though, that I
rery lady who has bought one of these !;
pes has told me that she smokes the pipe =
home with her husband while he's smoll =
g his own pipe There's nothing very re- n
arkable about it. My own grandmother,
ess her honest soul, smoked clay pipe
moderation from her young womanhood
to almost the day of her death.
Cigarettes? | was counting over recent fc
the number of brands | keep in stock A
re. | found that l have 2S7 different d
nds. 1t is the largest variety of cigar gl
ties in any one establishment in New SC
ork. There is hardly any sale at all for G.
any of the brands, but l keep nearly
cry kind made in case of a call for it. &c
II instance, have no less than fourteen fir
axican brands of cigarettes Off and on la
ch of these fourteen brands has been Sc
led for by Mexicans visiting New York m
love been told about the extensive re- de
rtoire of cigarettes at my shop. l have pc