Show England Spain Followed Fallowed Indians Indian's Style of Pipes While the English adopted the pipe of the North American Indian the Spaniards followed the practice of I Ithe the Caribbean Islanders and South American Indians This was to roll 1011 the tobacco In leaves of cabbage or corn to form a cigar elgar according to a writer In the Chicago Tribune Ci- Ci was the Spanish word meaning to roll rolt Cigar came carne to signify a rollof roll 1011 rollof of tobacco leaves Continental Europe except Spain preferred snuff as s did the Scots The developed In Spain Paper Pa Pa- Paper per served as the enveloping material probably because of the lack of suitable suitable suit suit- able leaves The first pipes were makeshifts makeshifts- sometimes merely a n reed or straw Inserted inserted In in- In a walnut shell Then followed followed fol fol- lowed small pipes of Iron silver sHyer brass or carved wood yielding only a n few puffs to each filling The clay pipe early became popular In England and held favor till tilt about 80 years ago when the briar came Into use Briar pipes are not made of briar The name Is a corruption of ot the bruyere bru ere or white heath beath shrub a ana na native tire tive of southern Europe and Algeria |