The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1903, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL, 9 “ 7 CLrL Neroms Ao wi7H Golp SN TN A P07 V2427 L P o = Photos by Bushmell, G ——————————— “The Chinese are supposed te have been the first smokers,” said Miss Julia Smith, & charming Oakland belle, who is also an enthusiastic devotes of the new pipe fad, when I called on her later. “The most futeresting of their pipes are like this long one for & gentleman’when using a fine- grade tobacce, and this one standing on the table, more frequently used by high- caste ladies and worn hanging from the beit. According to & traveler from the antique land this is the mode of pro- cedure. *“You will notice that the alender bowl of the pipe goes down“fito & large bowl The tobacco is placed In the small bowl, ‘which takes but a pinch to fill it, and the large bowl is filled with water, so that the smoke, as the smoker gradually inhales, must pass through the water before reaching stem of the pipe and finally the mouth of the smoker. This makes it very delicate. There is just enough to- bacco put in for one large whiff, then the profess 1s repeated. “The small side receptacies are for matches and tapers and the large one for the tobacco. The leather is the case, and the pipe may be withdrawn from It The smoker always has a small, tightly twisted taper or lighter. This she lights with & match (or, in old days, with a spark from a flint), and then, with the taper, lights the tobacco. During the process of drawing In the long whiff of S LT 77777 CHAINETLE Affi;fi“?/fif. e e e T BY FLIZABETH SYLE N the course of the evening I gravi- tated toward the. pipe coliection. “Ab, you show an appreciation after my own heart,” sald Mrs. John Tre- vor Marlowe, one.of Oakland's pop- & matrons, coming up behind { @m really susceptible to flattery on this, my latest hobby, so please don’t turn away with ‘Charming!’ or another of those commonplacep that brand the un- initiated.” - ¥ 1 ask why you collected pipes than souvenir spoons or china—or— » ¥ou know, the other ladylike memen- toes—or 1s that listed among the com- monplaces?” “Well, I will forgive it. It's just be- cause the pipes are not ordinary and ‘ladylike’ that I wanted them. I got @refafully tired of the souvenir spoon end as for china—well, I never had any luck with that Do youpee that set of china decorated with eschscholtzias? When I first came to California I en- thusiastically bought it as a souvenir of the Golden Btate and then found that the eschscholtzias from which it was painted had been pressed and dried and sent to Germany, where they wers painted by German artists on German china and sent back to San Francisco to be sold to the gulleless visitor as a peculiarly West- ern memento. After that I gave up china and took to pipes. They really represent to me something of the countries and peo- ple I saw In two trips to Europe. “Now see the different characteristies expressed in these four pipes. The first 1s French; do you notice the delicate carv- ing and the representation of the Tour Eiffel? Now_see the patient labor in these two Swiss pipes. In one the stem is covered with fine chamols hide and decorated with tufts of the long hair, and on the other is the image of & bear, emblem of the mountains, laboriously carved in the long winter evenings by the light of the fire in an Alpine hut. On the other hand, doesn’t this great German ' &pparatus suggest steins and jollity? ‘Whenever I look at it I remember a jour- ney up the Rhine when the passengers drew about the tables on deck and drank Bavarian beer and puffed at just such Pipes as this all the way from Mains to Koblentz, that is for the better part of & long, lazy summer’s day.” “So the plpes typify the lives of the people—at least the pleasure-loving side of them?” I asked. “Exactly! And from what side can one better see the real people themselves? In their working hours aren’t they controlled by circumstances less natural and free? But on their pleasurings, in the German Gardens or along the Bots—there thefr true selves bave a chance to eome to surface, there you can really make acquaintance of the world and his wife— and his pipe. “But to have your pipes of any value,” Mrs. Marlowe went on, “they must have been smoked, must have had a history. Now in buying Indian pipes you will at first fall & victim to the much-painted, many-plumed carving of an Indian such as never was on land or sea, made espe- clally to sell to the whitefaces, but Mter you will learn to select the trde redman’s pipe, hollowed from a stone or molded from clay. In the beginning it s safest to go by egmp-nuvo ugliness or by the odor, or better still by buying direct from the lips. “Of course the finest work of a pipe 1s usually on the bowl, but even the stems have a history. Many of them, per- the the haps the choicest, are made from cnerry wood grown for this especial purpose in great nurseries in Austria. They are all seedlings and are watched with the grsat- est care till their second birthday, when they are removed from the beds and placed in separate pots, which are dally turned so that each side may get an equal share of sunshine. “All buds are nipped, that the main stalk may grow tall and shapely untll is almost ready to cut, head is allowed to form; stalk thickens out and due cut down and laid away to season. Many are as smooth and round as If turned, end when as much as five feet in length command & good price. Some pipes show the jasmine or mock-orange sticks of Turkey, selected like the cherry because they are porous enough to absorb the in- jurious oil exuding from the burning to- bacco.” smoke the taper is held motionless in the left hand, and when the first pinch of to- bacco is all used, with the right hand the tiny bowl is lifted, the ashes driven out with a sharp puff of the breath, another pinch deftly Inserted, the smoldering taper brought to life with another blast from the lips and the tobacco lit once more. It is because the smoker does not wish to be roused from her dreamy ap- preciation of thé weed by the necessity of relighting her taper that she guards it 80 carefully in the left hand. “Then come the oplum pipes, requiring as much atténtion as the water pipe. The smoker usually lies down to the task of thus enjoying himself. Nearby stands a emall lamp and a dish of oplum about the consistency of jelly. This the smoker winds about a little stick, which he then twirls above the lamp, at the same time holding the pipe close to it and Inhaling EVE same fashion, while her lord and master often smokes a straight pipe studded with barbaric pearl and gold, or with beads U hh»fl—olmdl—thllmlfllfl enly two wives or so.” From other prominent women of both Oakiand and Ban Francisco I Iqarned more that was interesting about antique pipes. For instance, the American In- dian developed the pipe habit early in his career. Besides being s medicine aad & luxury, ft was with him & means of re- ligious sacrifice. Pipes were smoked for & sweet savor unto the gods—sometimes, probably, with a symbolism not unifke the censer's. It is used in war ceremonies, and is & mecessary part of & brave's gala day parapherralia, as ts (llustrated by the calumet, or pipe of peace Some pipes have & single bow!l and two stems; there is comraveship for you! The European never learned to smoks from the East, but caught the fever from America with a vengeance When frst the Englishman smoked tobacco was ex- pensive, and he used {t sparingly in very snall pipes, of which the Eritish Museum Las a goodly number labeled “elfin pipes.” The Popes launched bulls against “the horrid fumes,” and the Kings shook their scepters at them, but, after the nature of smoke, they had no cbjection to being hit amd continued to rise from all parts of the empire. From the very first the craie swept from my lord with his silver pipelet to his jockey; on the Continent it was the same, till to-day smoking is the most general of all luxuries, drawing from the pockets of Americans alone §17,000,000, not to mention the odd hundreds of thou- sands, while the sale of our tobacce puts into them about $33,000,008. But my first hostess, Mrs. Mariows, was not much interested in the trade statistics, and launched forth inte & eu- It is & “Queen Victoria™ pipe, witk gold mountings. “And what would you de if your fad lost its uniqueness—if everybody tock to “Some day I will show you how much ex- pression thers is In an old sabot or & moccasin.” The California Girl. This most fascinating of all toplcs is presented In a new light, and with an extraordinary series of engravings In color In Good Housekeeping for October. Charles F. Lummis (s at his best here. No writer is bettey qualified The sub- Ject is treated, from both 4 literary and artistic standpoint, with thd, vim, vigor, originality and beauty it juseifies. The young California women {llustrated are typical of the unique and beautiful characteristics of the rising generatioa of womanhood in different parts of the Golden State. Students of buman nature and of evolution will ocbeerve with pecu- liar interest the difference in type between the northern, central and southern p‘sfi of the State, What is sald about the Californis girl applies In a general way to the young people of both sexes throughout the Southwest—New Mexico and Arisona, and the Northwest, Oregon and Wash- ington. It will also hold true to & great degree of the rising generation in the intermountain States. All through this Western country we are raising & new type of young men and women—virtually & Dew race, destined teo regenerats (e United States. In its other features, the Ocfober Good Housekeeping is equally interesting. The studies of suburban homes and of home furnishings are so complete as to even in- clude an insight into the homes of Japan by & Japanese author, with Uustrations by one of the leading Japanese artists and printed on Japanese paper. This article itself is an eye opener to the increas- ing number who seek the simple lifa The influence of arts and crafta, the dafly newspaper and the family, by Charles Emory Smith, Dr. Stanley Hall on ex- periments with children, a fine depart- ment on health, the methods of the twentieth century hostess, & wealth of discoveries, and other articles. make up & magasine that is becoming se popular in this section as to require & western edi- tion with headquarters at Francisco. In its cullnary pages, Good Housekeeping also represents the very latest progress, with authoritative recipes, new and sim- ple dishes, healthful and (nexpensive dlets. Indeed, sverything pertaining to the higher and broader life of the house- hold is amply covered in & new and uwp ta date way. —_——— . There is & tree which grows In Sumatrs, Algeria and China which is known as the vegetable tallow tree. From {ts frult large quantities of oll and tallow are extracted, and the fruit is gathered In November or December, when all the leaves have tallen. Excellent candles ars made from the berries of a tree which grows In some parts of South Africa and the Azores. At Slerra Leone s found the cream fruit tree, the fruit of which is very agreeabls in taste. In Ceylon there is the bread fruit tree, from which & food is made in the same way that we make bread It is said to be equally good and nutritious In South America we find the milk tree.—