Grows he black in his face with his labours? 
      Well, so does my Grand Old Pipe.

    For the sake of its excellent savour,
      For the many sweet smokes of the past
    My pipe keeps its hold on my favour,
      Tho’ now it is blackening fast.

But although many pipes were smoked at the Universities, there were occasionally to be found odd survivals of old prejudices.  Dr. Shipley, in his recent memoir of John Willis Clark, the Cambridge Registrary, says that even in the ’seventies of the last century there was an elderly Don at Cambridge who once rebuked a Junior Fellow, who was smoking a pipe in the Wilderness, with the remark, “No Christian gentleman smokes a pipe, or if he does he smokes a cigar.”  The perpetrator of this bull was the same parson who married late in life, and returning to his church after a honeymoon of six weeks, publicly thanked God “for three weeks of unalloyed connubial bliss.”

XII

SMOKING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Sweet when the morn is grey;
Sweet, when they’ve clear’d away
Lunch; and at close of day

                Possibly sweetest.

C.S.  CALVERLEY.

Tobacco is once more triumphant.  The cycle of three hundred years is complete.  Since the early decades of the seventeenth century, smoking has never been so generally practised nor so smiled upon by fashion as it is at the present time.  Men in their attitude towards tobacco have always been divisible into three classes—­those who respected and followed and obeyed the conventions of society and the dictates of fashion, and smoked or did not smoke in accordance therewith; those who knew those conventions but disregarded them and smoked as and what they pleased; and those who neither knew nor cared whether such conventions existed, or what fashion might say, but smoked as and what, and when and where they pleased.  At the present time the three classes tend to combine into one.  There are, it is true, a few conventions and restrictions left; but they are not very strong, and will probably disappear one of these days.  There is also, of course, and always has been, a fourth class of men, who for one reason or another, quite apart from what fashion may say or do, do not smoke at all.

Perhaps the most absurd and unmeaning of the restrictions that remain, is that which at certain times and in certain places admits the smoking of cigars and cigarettes and forbids the smoking of pipes.  The idea appears to be that a pipe is vulgar.  There are few restaurants now in which smoking is not allowed after dinner; but the understanding is that cigars and cigarettes only shall be smoked.  In some places of resort there are notices exhibited which specifically prohibit the smoking of pipes.  Why?  At a smoking concert where few pipes are smoked, anyone looking