Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1915 — The Corn- Cob Pipe. [ARTICLE]

The Corn- Cob Pipe.

• There is virtue in a corncob pipe. Many women will deny this. Some, who have endured its herculean odor for the sake of the quieting effect it seemed to exert over a husband who is given to occasional manifestations of ill temper, will declare that while it may have virtues at times, it is never more virtuous than when reposing in an airtight fruit jar on the cellar stairs. Nevertheless, the corncob pipe is not a thing to be sneered at. It is a democratic institution. One evidence of the fact that this country is not so democratic as foreigners believe, is that according to the code of an American gentleman the corncob pipe must not be smoked while wearing a silk hat. On the other hand, it may be for this reason that Americans so seldom affect the silk hat. But some men find difficulty in adapting themselves to the Missouri meerschaum.’' They contend that the first; puff from a new corncob pipe is like a breath from the nether regions. This aversion arises from the circumstance that, like a sponge, a new cob pipe should be dipped in water before it is used. After the first pipeful of tobacco has been smoked it will be found that a liberal coat of ashes has attached itself to the walls of the pipe, rendering it thereafter much less likely to burn the tongue than if jit were initiated without the formality of baptism. There is one place, however, where the cob pipe is distinctly dangerous, and that is in the mouth of