Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1882 — Wedding Pipes. [ARTICLE]

Wedding Pipes.

The city of Gouda, so famed for the old stained glass in the cathedral, and more generally associated with the manufacture of Dutch pipes, is about fifteen miles from Rotterdam. Among the variety of pipes made there is one cniled the wedding pipe; it is three feet three inohes long in the stem; the bowl is ornamented with coats-of-arms. Ant Dutch make festivals of the copper wedding, the silver wedding, the golden wedding and the diamond wedding. On the occasion of the copper wedding the stem of the pipe is ornamented with copper leaves twining all the way up the stem, and at each successive festival the leaves are renewed according to the date of the commemoration, which seldom pfWMtM the golden. In Amsterdam I once saw a diamond-leaved pipe which had been prepared for a seventy-fifth wedding.—Cfood Worda.