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Show Meerschaum. Eski' Scheir, In Aslajtlc Turkey. I has one unique claim upon public i Interest, and if one Is a smoker that Claim is a compelling one It Is the home of meerschaum. Meerschaum In abundance is found only on the plain of KSKi Scheir and this city I produces all the marketable meor- 1 s'haum In the world Meerachaum, as its name implies. I I? supposed to be petrified sea foam. I and h ia been dls ov rc I fibal ig on , i e Blai k Bee : rl from the j r. t Sohel t mines, II occur in r;reere, Samos, Spuln MOravia, I tab., Pennsylvania, and. In conjunction ivItM n'Tpentlne, in Norway and g South faro,ltaa ,- Th ancients arc said to have used it as a deroratnc sione in . buildings, arid Hils seems to have been confirmed by the recent exca- j " rations In orfu. It is soft and j " whitish and becomes malleable like clay when soaked In water. 'i Meerschaum used to he considered C a more curiosity by 'lie Turks, who j had no other 1180 for If Thau as j, substitute for fuller's soap The stor run9 that the Turkish Ambassador Am-bassador at t'e Austrian Court, In the eighteenth century, waa a na- Z tive of Kski Si heir vVantinsr to w help his city at a time of jrreat poverty, he tooi a .sample of this queer stuff to Vienna, thinking that the "Franks." an all foreigners '' were then nlled might have som 14 use for it Thdtermans'were quick f to pe its utility for pipe bowls. j but declared that It was good for nothing else. More than a century has confirmed , this Judgment, for who ha yet dis- . i o ered any other use for mccr- f 53 schaum? For pipe-making it L- mh lT! ideal raw material Here j3 a ston which Is easily moulded when wet, . and when dry becomes hard and re- I slsts fire. JY |