RULES FOR SMOKING. 1 
a scholar inexcusable, from an uncleanness that seems willful. 
Let the.young philosopher avoid such. practice, and give a 
wide berth to those who follow them. Take the following 
rules, tyro, meo periculo :— pei 
1, Never smoke when the pores are open: they absorb, 
and you are unfit for decent society. Be it your study ever 
to escape the noses of strangers. First impressions are 
sometimes permanent, and you may lose a useful acquaintance. 
‘2. Learn to smoke slowly. Cultivate ‘calm and intermit- 
tent pufts.’— Walter Scott. “ 
« 8, On the first symptom of expectoration lay down the 
pipe, or throw away the cigar; long-continued expectoration 
is destructive to yourself and revolting to every spectator. 
_4. Let an interval elapse between the filling of succeeding 
pipes. 
5. Clean your tube regularly, and your amber mouthpiece 
with a feather dipped in spirits of lavender. Never suffer 
the conduit to remain discolored or stuffed. . 
6. A German receiver can be washed out like a teacup, 
and the oil collected is of value, but a meerschaum should 
never be wetted. A small sponge at the end of a wire 
dipped in sweet oil should be used carefully and persistently 
round and round, coaxing out any hard concretions, till the 
inside be smooth in its dark polished grain, of a rich mahogany 
tint. The outside, also, well polished with sweet oil and 
stale milk, then enveloped in chamois leather. The rich 
dark coloring is the pledge of your safety—better there than 
darkening your own brains. 
“The pale gold c’noster and Turkey have now given way 
to the splendid varieties of. America, and my knowledge 
halts behind the age. The black sticks resembling lollipops 
are said to be compounds of rum, bullocks’ blood and tobacco 
lees. A taste for them, when once contracted, is abiding. 
Fine volatile tobacco, with aromatic delicacy, reqnires a long 
tube; used in a short pipe of modern fashion, they parch 
and shrivel the tongue. In short, what is true of all other 
pleasures is also true of tobacco-smoking. Fruition is some- 
times too rapid for, enjoyment, as the dram-drinker is less 
wise than the calm imbiber of the fragrant vintage of the 
Garonne. With Burke’s common sense I began, and with 
it I end. Depurate vice of all her offensiveness, and you 
rune her of half her evil. Let not your love of indulgence 
e so inordinate as to purchase short pleasure by impairing 
health, neglecting duty, or, while promoting your own 
self-complacency,. allow yourself to become permanently 
