THE MORNING PIPE OR THE EVENING

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7731, 10 December 1890, Page 5

THE MORNING PIPE OR THE EVENING

It hath been oft times debated (saya a writer la the Scots Observer), whether tht morning pipe be the sweeter or that first pipe of the evening which " Hesperus, who brlngeth all good things," brings to. the weary with home aud rest. The first) is smoked on a clearer palate, aud e&aiea to uujaded senses like the kiss of one's first love; but lacks that feeling of perfect fruition, of merit recompensed and the goal and tbe garland won, which cling* to the vesper bo wL Wlmnce lb comes" tha' the majority give the palm to the latUsr, To which 1 intend no slight, when I llpd the incense that arises at matins even than tbat of evensong. - F0r,.... although with most of us who are laborers in the viueyar'q, toilers and swiujsera, the morning pipe is smoked ih hurry and fear, and a sehse of *%_aruuis. and excursions aud fleeting trains, yet with all this there are certain halcyon, periods sure to arrive—Sundays, holiday-}, and the like—the whole joy aud peace oi which are summed up in that one beatific pipe after breakfast, smoked in a careless majesty like that of the gods " when they lie beside their nectar, and the clouds are lightly Then only can we be said really to a moke. And so this particular pipe of the 4 a J always carries with it festal reailujia' Cepces: memories of holidays past, hojpei for holidays to come; a suggestion oi sunny lawns and flannels, and the uhgirt loin; a sense withal of something ireand stately, as of "faint march-music?ii the air," or the old Roman cry ot "Liberty freedom, and enfranchisement."