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Ladies with pipes

Carlisle Blues

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As close as I want to get to lady and a pipe. :p

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Copper

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The sadly now-defunct pipe club I was a member of for a number of years had several women members.

Most smoked small Dutch made 'women's' pipes, though a couple smoked larger ones and one even had a bespoke freehand made by one of the other members who happened to be a talented pipemaker.

It didn't seem that unusual at all.
 

BegintheBeguine

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I can't inhale without choking so I smoke a pipe.

I've mentioned several times I smoke a pipe but that was before someone revived this thread.
When I was a child I saw a lady's pipe in orange in a budget department store and it was so cool. I so wish I could find something like that now, the pipe and that kind of department store. Anyway, I smoke a succession of cheapy Dr. Grabows from the PX and a lowly corncob. My kinfolk are hillbillies and it's possible I'm a grandmother so perhaps I resemble Mammy Yokum, although my figure is more like Moonbeam McSwine's, but I don't care!; I smoke in public. My teeth are fine.
 

Hela

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BegintheBeguine said:
I've mentioned several times I smoke a pipe but that was before someone revived this thread.
When I was a child I saw a lady's pipe in orange in a budget department store and it was so cool. I so wish I could find something like that now, the pipe and that kind of department store. Anyway, I smoke a succession of cheapy Dr. Grabows from the PX and a lowly corncob. My kinfolk are hillbillies and it's possible I'm a grandmother so perhaps I resemble Mammy Yokum, although my figure is more like Moonbeam McSwine's, but I don't care!; I smoke in public. My teeth are fine.

:D There ya go! Have any pics of you smoking that pipe?
 

Tiller

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Times certainly have changed, yet things do kind of remain the same. Well reading this thread I quickly recalled Calvin Coolidge's Autobiography (which I've read as a good Republican should lol), which is wittily called "The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge". In it he talks about meeting his Grandfather's aunt who was smoking a clay pipe as a child and how the shock caused him to remember it well into his own golden years. I'll quote some of it below.

"My grandfather, Calvin Galusha Coolidge, died when I was six years old. He was a spar man over six feet tall, of a nature which caused people to find in him, and of a character which made him a constant choice for public office. His mother and her family showed a marked trace of Indian blood. I never saw her, but he took me one time to see her sister, his very aged aunt, whom we found sitting in the chimney corner smoking a clay pipe.

This was so uncommon that I always remembered it. I thought tobacco was only for men, though I had seen old ladies outside our neighborhood buy snuff at the store."

Seems the sight of his great-great-aunt smoking had a lasting image on our 30th President that lasted well into his adult life. lol I wonder how common it really was in that age, to see a woman smoking a pipe.
 

Hela

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I love these stories!
It was probably the "Indian Blood", I seem to recall pictures of Native women with pipes. I'll have to rummage through some books.
 

patrick1987

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Hela said:
Yup, you set yourself up on that. I can't wait to see your pic :D
Waal, I put fresh batteries in the Kodak but Ash hasn't lit a pipe in a while as she's had a nasty lingering cold. Stay tuned.
 

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