THE CITY OF SMOKERS. 153 
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 ; 
silos 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 ‘ wellcotored ’ 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.” Many 
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 by 
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 PORCELAIN PIPES. 
drain into the lower bow], 
which may be removed and the pipe cleaned. The bowls are 
