Evening star., 1945-04-27
This and That
By Charles Z. Trace,oeH.
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Il was glad to see your article about
pipe smoking. There has been too
much about cigarettes during the past
10 years. Do you suppose too much
cigarette smoking led to the war, or
helped lead to it?
my husband smokes a pipe, and al
ways has, and am glad Of it. Pipes.
when properly cleaned, leave no stink
Ing smell in q house. Some of nv
friends say their husbands smell up the
house with their pipes, and tell them
1t is because the pipe isn't clean, to-
begin with.
MY pipe smoker has an outfit, with
all sorts OF gadgets, bottles Of stun,
long wires wrapped in cloth, and 90
on. The menfolks get great kick out
OF gadgets, and certainly these keep
his pipe as sweetly smelling as can be.
There Is no stale odor in q house
where such a smoking instrument is
used. In fact, have been tempted to
take up pipe smoking myself, but it Is
really such q masculine way of smoking
that have never given in to the
temptation.
III there Is anything that makes me
tired, these war days at home, 1t Is to
see a young girl with one of these silly
looking little pipes. If they want to
smoke q pipe, why don't they get
real pipe?
Men who smoke pipes are more con-
templative than other men. They are
slower motioned, and perhaps their
thinking processes are slower, too, but
when they finally arrive at q conclu-
sion, 1t Is . good one, to my way of
thinking.
Il hope you can print this, Just to
let some Of your readers see that not all
women are against pipe smoking.
Sincerely yours, M. r."
A tobacco pipe makes for contem-
plation.
Everything about it is slow motioned,
from the filling to the lighting.
Cleaning pipe is something like
cleaning rifle. The wire pipe cleaner
takes the place of the ramrod. Too
much stress cannot be placed on this
cleaning, as our wise lady reader says.
If you want to live with pipe, and
especially If you want the folks at home
to live with 1t, you must keep it clean.
Many persons not acquainted with
this form Of tobacco consumption at
first hand think 1t is the tobacco burn
ing which makes dirty pipe smell up
the house."
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. Almost any old pipe will smoke
sweet enough II It is not clogged with
old stale juices and morsels Of tobacco.
Tobacco, after all, is q vegetable prod
uct. Like all vegetable products, when
1t becomes old and stale it gives of an
unpleasant odor.
Think Of old beet topsi /.
II pipe Is thoroughly cleaned, pref
erably after every smoking, but at least
after every second smoke, it will not
Lhave that horrible smell OF the stale
pipe which too many persons think Is
the only smell OF pipe.
The contemplative person will think
about this aspect Of HIS hobby, too. For
pipe smoking usually becomes sort Of
hobby: it Is seldom that an educated
man takes it up without realizing th9t
there is more to 1t than meets the eye.
The pipe and the tobacco are only the
outward garments, as 1t were. They are
essential, but once they are had, the real
pleasure and profit Of pipe smoking be-
gins. and these come not solely from the
solace Of the weed, as they used to say,
but more from what the mind OF the
smoker does 10 the entire process.
It u this contemplative flavor which
sets pipe apart, and gives 1t higher
rank than all other forms Of tobacco
consumption. Little boys and girls
smoke cigarettes; men smoke pipes. At
least, that = the way the genuine pipe
smoker thinks Of It. He knows, how
ever, that he has duty to perform. In
keeping his pipe clean as 4 whistle.
There Is no duty to 1 cigarette, and
very little demanded from ! cigar, but
. mans pipe says, Here, keep me clean,
o. So back TO cigarettes.s It = one or
tn otdAr. ss5..ss.