A paper--of tobacco; treating of the rise, progress, pleasures, and advantages of smoking. With anecdotes of distinguished smokers, mems. on pipes and tobacco-boxes, and a tritical essay on snuff / By Joseph Fume [i.e. W.A. Chatto] [pseud.].
- William Andrew Chatto
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A paper--of tobacco; treating of the rise, progress, pleasures, and advantages of smoking. With anecdotes of distinguished smokers, mems. on pipes and tobacco-boxes, and a tritical essay on snuff / By Joseph Fume [i.e. W.A. Chatto] [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![by poor people, supplying- them with tobacco gratis, he is considered the best smoker who can keep his pipe longest a-light. With constant smoking, a meer- schaum will become moderately coloured in about six months ; but the full rich brown, extending from the white of the head, and becoming gradually darker towards the socket, can scarcely be communicated in less than seven years. Meerschaums are usually mounted with silver, and in Germany they are sometimes ornamented at the top of the head with precious stones. Smoking,” says Dr. Dibdin, writing from Vienna, “ is a most decidedly general characteristic of the place. Two shops out of six in some streets are filled with pipes, of which the bowls exhibit specimens of the most curious and costly workmanship. The handles [the Rev. Doctor is not a smoker] are generally short. A good Austrian thinks he can never pay too much for a good pipe; and the upper classes of society some- times expend great sums in the acquisition of these objects of comfort or fashion. It was only the other evening, when, in company with my friends, Messrs. G. and S., and Madame la Comtesse de •, a gen- tleman drew forth from his pocket a short pipe, which screwed together in three divisions, and of which the upper part of the bowl—made in the fashion of a blaek-a-moor’s head—near the aperture, was com-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29299858_0160.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
