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Show A PEACEFUL INTRODUCTION Sir Walter Raleigh is given the credit for introducing tobacco to Europe, but for a long time before that gentleman found solace sol-ace in the. pipe the native Indians prefaced all their important seances by a ritualistic use of the pipe. There are, in the museums of the country, many specimens of the Indian Ind-ian pipe and there are tales of great deals pulled off after the pipe had been passed a-round. a-round. In Great Britain when a German 'airplane is shot down and the inmates captured, cap-tured, the first thing that is offered to the captured man is a cigarette. There is nothing noth-ing known that is so great an introducing feature as tobacco in one form or another. It is the common understanding of all mankind. |