PICTURESQUE PIPES.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19462, 29 December 1934, Page 12 (Supplement)

PICTURESQUE PIPES.

What delightful enterprises (have their centres now in the country villages and the little towns. From Sussex comes news of a pipe-making lindustry—no, mot for tobacco, but sweet music, stales an exchange. Miss Margaret ‘James, it seems, is going round Hie country teaching people to make bamboo pipes and lo play them. ■. . Since the days of Pan, the pipe has been the instrument of the children and of primitive people. Bamboo costs little, and if you make the pipe yourself it is the cheapest possible instrument. , 'Having made it, and learned to Play il, there is the further joy of decorating il, painting it in bright colours, and tying on knots ot gay ribbons. . , , A few simple, inexpensive tools arc needed, but -Miss James shows how much may be done by an ordinary sharp pen-knile. A plain pipe can be made for not more than a shilling, and the decoration costs little.

One of fh« oldest treatments for I,urns and one which again lias come In the fore consists of battling the skin with a slrmig brew of lea. The tannic acid in [lie tea is credited with soothing* scul’-eliminaliug qualilies. Every well-dressed business man in Canada, says Ihe Dominion Bureau of Statistics, wears on nil average from three In funr dozen buttons on his everyday dollies, while Canadian women and children use a correspondingly large nrmbrr. For this reason Canada maiuifaelured approximately DJ0,000,000 dozen buttons last year,