THE PIPE AND THE MAN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 132, 14 January 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE PIPE AND THE MAN.

Pipes and tobacca play no small part in the caste of Ike woi Id's j drama. In fact, you can l-ll the j character of a nation by its sui-asi:'." | materials, and the longer the pipe I the more indolent the r;n <'■ Take the German, for instance, lie I is naturally slow, heavy, laboured; j everything be does is performed with great deliberation, lie smokes through a short, squai pipe, the bowl j of which is of vast propoi Lions. On j lli" other hand, the quick, m rvy, restless Frenchman takes a pinch or two of tobacco and rolls i; into v. j minute cigarette, which lie puffs for a f"w moments and then discards. As we Britishers have become Quicker and swifter in our thoughts and ways, so have our pipes become shorter. Our grandfathers delighted in the churchwarden pipe, ii v as called an "alderman." and was in! :\ yard long. Then came a much shelter pipe, known as a "London straw," and now the majority "\ pipe smokers in England are to be f< :md sucking a stumpy bulldog briar.