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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

IN PRAISE OF THE PIPE

THE BRIAR'S RETURN TO FAVOUR.

EVERY DAY

RED LETTER DAY

if you know the right whisky

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SALOON FARES.

WEEK DAYS-Single: $3,00; Retura: $5.00. SUNDAYS and EXCURSIONS.-Single: $2.50; Batarn: $4.00.

EXCURSION TO MACAO:-

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Will depart from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf at 9 A.M.,

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Nor-All Steamboat Comp ny's Steamer are fitted with Wireless.

WHEN

To-day.

(May 10.)

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And I light my pipe in silence, fare demanded above all else. Hence it comes about that old briar has Its fate with my tobacco, and to displaord most of those other

vanish with the snake,

mediums on which the pipe carver

In fact, to speak in earnest, I be practised his art. The interesting

liere it adds a charmi

speculation has been made by Mr.

To spice the good, a trifin with à A. E. Hamilton in his book, "This

little dust of harm

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the

Among them

Smoking World," that Napoleon I. No pipe ever rivalled the briar was indirectly responsible for the in my affections, though I can re- coming of the briar, According to call a mad month when I fell in this authority pilgrims were drawn' love with two little meerschaums, to Napoleon's birthplace on which I christened Romulus and Island of Corsica. Remus. They lay together in one was once a French pipe maker who, cnse in Regent Street, and it was losing his meerschaum, ordered a with difficulty that I could pass the peasant to make him apother out. Racing.-Fifth Extra Meeting shop without going in. Often of any material at hand. The pen- took side streets, to escape their sant took the root of a tree heath, (Happy Valley).

glances, but at last I asked the called bruyère, as this was hard price. It startled me, and I huran tough, carved out a pleasing ried home to the briar,"

Queen's Theatre: "Hell's Angels." World Theatre: "Enemy Beauty" (Chinese film).

Central Theatre: ·" Rango “

King's Theatre: "Under Sun. picion."

Dances: Tea Dances, H.K. and Peninsula Hotels; Dinner Dances, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotela. Royal Corps of Signals, Open Alg Dance, Whitfield Barracks, 8 p.m.

European Mail:-Outward -Europe via Siberia (Pres. Madison)

5.m.

Sunday,

(May 17.)

Sunday After Ascension Day. Eastern Football Club Athletic Sports, South China ground.

Queen's Theatre: "Hell's Angels" World Theatre: "Mei Yen Chi" Part I, (Chinese film).

Central Theatre: "Rango." King's Theatre: "Anybody's Woman."

Dances: Tea Dance at Ropulso Bay Hotel.

Monday,

(May 19.)

Queen's Théatre * "Hell's Angels World Theatre: "Men Yen Chi Part I (Chinese film).

King's Theatre: "Anybody's Wo mar."

Central Theatre: Beau Bandit." Dances: Tea Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances, Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.

pipe bowl, and delighted the pipe The sentiments so admirably ex-maker with the product of his pressed, and the act of fidelity to skill. Taking some of the gnarly an old favourite belong, as might roots of the bruyère back to well he supposed, to Sir James France, a new industry was born Barric, doughty champion and with the Frenchman's return. ardent lover of "My Lady Nico- tine," and few of the great army of pipe smokers will quarrel with them.

"

The industry of pipe manufac turing has to- Iny become a verit- able art, and in it British manu-

facturers have shown that they are not less skilled than the pipe makers of London, who ranked. amongst the most successful of the old City Guilda, with a charter of incorporation dating back to 1819. Indeed, the trade description,

La mado " bna come to he regarded na n hall mark of excel- lence, both for material and pro- duction.

It is appropriate, therefore, that the pipe of pipes, the briar, should be honoured with a "Pipe Week," during which the leading tobac conists and stores are making special displays of British pro- ducts. By this menne seasoned amokers and novitiates will have placed before them the very latest in hriars, produced by modern methods in which the use of only

Since Sir Walter Raleigh first introduced the noxious weed or the diving herb (according to the views hold on the habit of smoking) to this country in the later years of 42 otech Century, the cult of the pipo has perished with steadily increasing popularity, It has figured in the literature of all ages, and while many famous writers have extolled it, others, equally famous, have reviled it as "a stink ing, loathsonse thing." Indeed,, tho noise of battle can still be heard, with noisy protagonists on either side, but despito, all argument *** about it and about" the pipe to

day has established itself more firmly than ever before, and stands คง a symbol of tobacco's almost universal conquest of mankind.

Only in the material of its manu naturally matured bruyère roots facture and in the shapes and has eliminated the tedious business stylea have pipe fashions changed of breaking in

a new pipe. Gone are the days when hand-The straight grained, most desired painted porcelain and elaborately but seldom attained, mottled, and carved, meerschaura bowla lent blond" virgin briars will all have a place in the showcases variety to the smokers' equipment, alluring to smokers in all stations Seldom does one encounter now-a-

of life. For in the selection of days the calabash, the corncob, or the long-stemmed churchwarden. pipe one can be guided by the Even the cherry wood no longer advice of Aristotle in the purchase He who buys tobacco of tobaccos: enjoys its one time popularity although still favoured above all other types by a former Prime Minister.

In an age of utilitarianism, from which not even our luxuries aro exempt, simplicity and durability

at a great price need a long purse, and he who buys it at a small price needs a strong stomach, but if he observe the mean ho need havo neither."

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