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show that beauty is most lovely when made practical, that 

 these artistic colorers of pipes are always those who make 

 least use of Tobacco, save for the immediate purpose of 

 obtaining the clay in which it is smoked. Ask such an artist 

 why he smokes, and he will scarcely tell you. His best rea- 

 son certainly will be, that others smoke, and, as a custom, it 

 becomes him. And when you find an ardent smoker one 

 who smokes because he likes Tobacco for itself, or finds it 

 useful who spends his time in tinting pipes, you will have 

 found a rara avis, or a monstrosity. Apart from taste, there 

 are some practical objections to this custom of coloring pipes. 

 Smoking, to be worthy, should be free and unrestrained ; 

 while he who colors his pipe is tied by system and confined 

 to rule. 



" A pipe to be enjoyable, should be its master's slave ; but 

 he who keeps a ' well-colored ' pipe is slave thereto. He can- 

 not smoke it as, or when, or where he will. He must not 

 smoke it in a draught, or near a fire; he must not lay it 

 down, or finger it ; he must not puff too fast, nor yet too 

 slow. In short, he is the creature of this Joss ' this home- 

 made deity to which he bows down and worships. The 

 pipe-colorers are the Sabbatarians of smoking. Whereas, the 

 pipe was made for man, they treat man as made for the pipe. 

 And thus, as in all cases where the cart is expected to draw 

 the horse, the economy of nature is reversed, and mischief is 

 evolved." 



Dibdin, in his " Tour in France and Germany," says of 

 Vienna, that it is a city of smokers, "a good Austrian 

 thinks he can never pay too much for a good pipe." Manj 

 of the Germans use a kind of pipe carved from the root of 

 the dwarf oak ; wooden pipes of a similar kind are made of 

 brier root, and are very common, as are also those made from, 

 maple and sweet-brier. One of the favorite pipes used bj 

 Germans is the porcelain 

 pipe, which consists of a_ 

 double bowl the upper 

 one containing the to- 

 bacco, which fits into 

 another portion of the 

 pipe, allowing the oil to GERMAN POR CKLAIN PIPES. 



drain into the lower bowl, 

 which may be removed and the pipe cleaned. The bowls are 



