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TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGARS, ETC. 



may be cleaned. These bowls are sometimes very 

 beautifully painted, and a dealer's stock exhibits a vast 

 variety of subjects, sacred and profane, religious and 

 historic, varying in price according to quality of work- 

 manship. They are painted by the artists who are 

 employed in china factories, and are afterwards baked 

 in the same way as the painted porcelain for the table.* 

 This kind of pipe is similar to the Dutch one, which is 

 known by its long straight stem ; a qualification always 

 considered a necessary requisite by the Dutchman, and 

 adopted in the common clay pipe; it saves him all 

 trouble in holding it seated in his chair; 

 and our cut, copied from the picture of a 

 Dutch inn, showing one of the windows, 

 happily occupied by a traveller in repose, 

 will testify to the lazy convenience thereof. 

 It is the custom in some public gardens 

 to insist on the bowl of the pipe being 

 covered to prevent accidents from the fall 

 of lighted tobacco ash,f and these cover- 

 ings are of perforated metal in a gentle- 

 man's pipe, or a wire lattice in that of the peasant. In 

 that model village Broeck, near Amsterdam, celebrated 



* A vast variety of subjects is chosen for -the decoration of such pipes ; 

 from the freest illustration of amatory lyrics to the most spiritual works of 

 Eaphael. Hood has noted of the Continental galleries, "instead of a cata- 

 logue raisonnee, you may go to any pipe shop to know which are the best, 

 or at any rate the most popular pictures, by the miniature copies on the 

 bowls." 



+ A Hungarian village, not far from Vienna, was almost entirely con- 

 sumed a few years ago by such an accident. 



