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Show PIPB SMOKING. To begin with, every amokar ehould have from three to a dosen good pipes, snd besides he must he a pipe smoker. By pipe eraoker la meant not merely a smoker of plpee nor one who uses a filpe aa a makeshift wishing all tha I me he had a good clgai- but one who chinks- -rhte tw the only form -t4 euHike for his friends, his "easy chair" and worthy to breathe Ita Incenee upon hla booka. No pip possesses any Individuality In a store, but for such a smoker another an-other pipe means another child added to hla family of pipe children. Another child that must be washed, cleaned and generally looked after if ha wanta to live and ba sweet tempered. There ara many pipe smokers, however, who do not know how to care for their pipea for those are ofTered th followlna suagestlona, which will undoubtedly be of service: Concerning briar . pipe. Plpee. like people, must have good digestions and lung. When you buy a pipe take a good look Into tha bowl. Examine Ita dtaeetion by noticing If the entrance irom ine no an into the stem la par-fertly par-fertly pn. K there are no cracka or flaws -In the wood anrwhre to ba seen you have all tha elements of a good pipe. Begin by hand I Ins: a new pipe verv gingerly. A new pipe la like a new bahy, and must he treated tenderly. Some smokers rarafully wet the Inside of the bowl before putting the tobacco In a new pipe. Thla. we believe, to he tha proper thing, aa- It removes any new or sticky taste that may have been left In the pipe. Borne smokers before Inserting In-serting the tobacco, put a piece of blotting blot-ting paper In the bottom of th bowi. Do not do this. It Is ssld that blotting paper absorbs the nicotine. If that Is so. there la very little taste to the tobacco, to-bacco, for It la the nicotine that gives the tsste to the tobacco, and fexoept for a very Infinitesimal part that will ad-her ad-her to th pip after each smoke) unless the smoker creates an abnormal amount of saliva. It can do no harm. Put In your tobacco, but don't fill It oulte to the top of th bowl. Be careful In lighting your tobacco not to burn the rim of the bowl. Rmoke very leisurely leis-urely et flret. gently breaking In your Kip until every part of it seems to be erdened to the heat. Keep thle up for Ave or elk smoke. Then you and your pipe can "rough It' anywhere an earth. Tobacco, In Sorig and Story. |