136 HOW TO COLOR A MEERSCHAUM. 



Open the old cigar-box, let me consider anew 

 Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should 

 abandon you? 



A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear 



the yoke ; 

 And a woman is only a woman, but a good 



cigar is a smoke. 



Light me another Cuba ; I hold to my first 



sworn vows, 

 If Maggie will have no rival, I'll have no 



Maggie for spouse ! 



RUDYARD KIPLING. 



HOW TO COLOR A MEER- 

 SCHAUM. 



THE secret of coloring a meerschaum 

 is not to allow the pipe to become too 

 hot. 



All meerschaum pipes are boiled in 

 wax. This wax penetrates the pores and 

 serves to keep the coloring matter in the 

 pipe. This coloring matter is the oil of 

 tobacco, and meerschaum being a porous 



