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Show PIPE NOW ORNAMENTS WALL Indiana Man Has No Further Use for It as a Medium for Enjoying Quiet Smoke. . An Indianapolis man whose work keeps him In office all dny long occasionally oc-casionally finds recreation In doing bits of odd Jobs In woodworking. For three montliB he worked at spare times, and ns the spirit moved him, at fashioning a Chinese pipe. Finally he finished the Job and took It to a painter for the stains, filler and varnish. var-nish. The painter did a good Job, nnd the pipe was a beauty to behold two feet long, brass knob and shaped bowl. It looked like n mandarin's favorite. fa-vorite. He took the thing home ond In a sort of a ceremonial rite filled It with his favorite tobacco, fired It up and drank deeply of Its dream stuff. Deeply and dream stuff Is right, because be-cause about half an hour later he lay sprawled unconscious on the floor of an upstairs hull until his wife revived him with cold towels. Now he knows all abont the effects of the volatile substances In paints and varnishes. He also has a beautiful Chinese pipe, smoked once, bunging on the wall. |