New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-07-04
SMOKING.

Smoking.
Mr. G. Cook, in his recent work, entitled The +
Seven Sisters of Sleep, or the Seven Narcotcs,' =
writes as follows concerning the use Of the weed |
in Siam:
Talk about tic Turks being great smokers. why
the Sialnesc beat them to nothing. ! have often |
seen q child only iust able to walk about and GER
tahiV not more than two years Of age, quit it, |
mothers breast to go and get Whit from papas
cigaret. or as they here termed, b0rses-cigar
cts made Of the dried leaf OF the plantaia tree,
inside of which the tobacco j. rollFd Up. /
IN Japan, after ten drinking, the apparatus for \
smoking is brought i'll, consisting of q board OF
wood brass though not always Of the same
structure, upon Which are placed small fire pan
with Goals, pot to spit in a small box filed with
tobacco cut small, and some long pipes with small
brass heads, as also another japanncd boaHl, Oh
dish, with socane-that is, something to eat, such
as figs mats, cakes and sweetmeats. There are no
other splitting pots brought into The room but those
which come along with the tobacco; if there he
occasion for more, they make use oi q small piece
Of bamboo, hand broad and high being sawed
from between the joints and followed.
In Nicaragua the dress of the urchins, from u
Or "A downwards, consists generally of straw hat
and cigaf-thc latter sometimes uniighted and
stuck behind the ear, bat ettener lighted and stuck
in the mouth costume sufficiently airy and ple-
turesque, and excessively cheap. The women
have their hair braided in two long locks which
hang down behind, and give them o sehool-girly
look, qutie OUT Oh Keeping WIN lne cool, deliberate
manner in which they puff their cigars, occasional
ly forcing the smoke in jets from their nostrils On
the Amazon, all persons, men aud women, use to-
bacco in smoking When pipes arc wanting they
make cigarillos of the fine tobacco, wrapped in
paper-like bark called Toware; and one OF these
is passed round, each person-even to the little
boys-taking two or three puffs in his turn
The Papuans pierce their ears, and insert in the
oricc ornaments or cigars of tobacco, rolled in
pandan leaf, of which they are great consumers.
Spanard knows crime SO black that it should
be visited by the deprivation of tobacco. In the
Havana the convict who Is deprived OF the ofdl-
nary comforts or of the necessaries Of life,
may enjoy his cigar, if he can beg or borrow it if
he stole it, the ofense would be considered yenia
| At the doorway of most Of the shops hang little
shcetiron boxes filled with lighted GOALS, at which
the passers-by may light cigars, and ON the baus.
trade of the staircase of every house stands small
| chafng-dish for the same purpose. Fire for his
| cigar is the only thing for which Spanard does
not think il necessary TO ask and thank with cere
| moniuus courtesy.
| If he has permitted his cigar to go out he steps
| up to the first man he meets-nobeman or galley
| slave, the case may be--and the latter silently
| hands his smoking weed; for it IS impossible that
| two Spanards should meet and not have one
/ lighted between them. The light obtained, the
lightG returns the cigar to the lighter in silence. A
short and suddenly checked motion of the hand, as
] the cigar is extended, is the only acknowledge
! ment of the courtesy. This is never, however,
| omitted. Women smoke as well as men; and in q
/ full railroad car every person--1nan woman and
| child-may be seen smoking. To placard, ''no
| smoking allowed, = aud enforce it, would ruin the
/ road 4 regular smoker in Cuba will consume
perhaps twenty or thirty cigars day, but they
4 are all fresh. What we call fine old cigar a
4 Cuban would not smoke.
At Manila the women smoke as well as the
/ men. One manufactory employs about 5000 wo-
| men in making the Manila cherOot; another estab-
| lishment employs 1000 men in making paper cigars
| or cigarettes. The paper cigars are chiefly smoked
/ by men; the women prefer "pures,n the largest
/ they can get. The Binua of Johore of both sexes
/ md freely tait3rco il their flYarite
ury. The women often seen seated together,
weaving mats, and each with cigar in her mouth.
When speaking it is transferred to the perforation
! in the ear. When met padding their canoes, the
/ cigar is seldom wanting. The hiintira women are
also much addicted to tobacco, but they do not
/ smoke it.
In South America many of the tribes are free in
dulgers in tobacco; and this extends also to the
4 female and juvenile sections of the community.
i A story which Sgnor Calisro narrated to Mr. Wal
lace whilst travelling in the interior of Brazil,
shows that it was nothing but common occur
renee for little girls to smoke. This story is in
! itself interesting, considered apart from all cir
/ cumstances of veracity; :" There was negro who
had a pretty wife, to whom another negro was
rather attentive when he had an opportunity. One
day the husband went out to hunt and the other
/ party thought it good opportunity to pay visit
| to the lady. The husband, however, returned
rather unex peCtedy aud the visitor climbed up on
the rafters he out of sight, among the old boards
rand baskets that were slowed away there. The
husband put his gun in q corner, and called to his
vile to get ms supper, ana linen sat down In Ills
hammock Casting his eyes up to the rafters, he
saw leg pr0truding from among the baskets, and
thinking itsomething supernatural, crossed himself
and said:
g Lord deliver us from the legs appearing over
head
The other, hearing this attempted to draw up
his legs out of sight, but. losing his balance came
J down suddenly OH the floor in front Of the aston
ishcd husband, who. half frightened, asked:
'Where do you come from2n
al have just come from Heaven said the other
g and have brought you news from your little
daughter Maria.n
"0h. wife, wife. come and see man who has
brought us news from our little daughter Maria
Then turning to the visitor, continued: :" And wha
was my little daughter doing when y0a lelt!n
!. " Oh, she was sitting at the feet Of the Virgin
!. with golden crown ON her head, and smoking
:. golden pipe yard long,
:" And did she send any message to us?'
!. "0h, yes; she sent many rememhfances, am
begged you TO send her two pounds of your tobaee
+ from the little rhoosa they have not got amy hal
Y so good up there"
3 ''Oh, wife, bring two pounds of our tobace
from the lit.le rhoosa, Tor daughter Maria is i
e Heaven, and she says they have not any half 8
d good up there"
So the tobacco was brought. and the visitor wa
d departing when he was asked:
" Are there many white men up theref"
Every few he replied; they are all down bt
low with the diabo."
D. 81 thought so,'' the other replied, apparentl
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