PIPES AND NATIONALITY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 957, 9 July 1908, Page 23

PIPES AND NATIONALITY.

From the different shapes of pipes used by the different nationalities you may form a judgment both ethnological and moral. The pipe reveals the character as well as the race. Active Northerners prefer the short kind, as less embarrassing. Southern races use the long-stemmed variety; smoking for them is a solemn occupation. Active men use pipes with small bowls; the German dreamer huge ones; the restless Japanese prefers the very thin bowl. Show me thy pipe, I will tell thee who thou art. —“ Independence Beige,” Brussels.