Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-07-11


SeUen Sisters Of Sleep, or the Seven Narcotics
writes as follows concerning the use of the
weed:
Talk about the Turks being great smokers,
whv. the Siamese beat them to nothing. l
have often seen child only just able to walk
about, and certainly not more than Two years
of age, quit its mothers breast to go and get
Whit from papa's cigaret,or, as they are
here termed, borees--cigarets made OF the
dried leaf of the plantain cree, inside of
which the tobacco is rolled up. -1-
In japan. after tea drinking, the apparatus
for smoking is brought in, consisting of a
board of wood or brass, though not always
of the same structure, upon which are placed
a small tire-pan with Goals, a pot to spit in,
small box filed with tobacco cut small, and
some long pipes with small brass heads, as
also another iapanned board, or dish, with
socane-that is, something TO eat such as
figs, nuts, cakes and sweetmeats. There are
no other spitting-pots brought into the room
but those which come along with the to-
bacco; if there be occasion for more, they
make use of a small piece of bamboo, hand
broad and high being sawed from between
the joints and followed.
In Nicaragua the dress Of the urchins, from
twelve to fourteen downward, consists gem
orally of straw hat and cigar-the latter
sometimes unlighted and stuck behind the
ear, but oftener lighted and stuck in the
mouth-a costume sufficiently airy and pic
turesque and excessively cheap. The women
have their hair braided in two long locks,
which hang down behind, and give them q
school-girly look, quite out Of keeping with
the cool, deliberate manner in which they
puff their cigars, occasionally forcing the
smoke in jets from their nostrils. On the
Amazon, all persons, men and women, use
,choncc tf,e et,,nlrines Nhan Y,fnac arp want
ing they make cigarillos of the fine tobacco,
wrapped in paper-like bark, called toware;
and one Of these is passed round, each per-
son--even to the little boys--taking two or
| three puffs in his turn.
| The Papuans pierce their ears, and insert
in the oriice ornaments or cigars of tobacco,
rolled in pandan leaf, of which they are great
consumers A Spaniard knows no crime So
| black that il should be visited by the depri-
vation of tobacco. In the Havana the con-
vict who is deprived Of the ordinary com
forts, or even of the necessaries of life, may
enjoy his cigar, if he can beg or borrow it;
| if he stole it, the offense would be considered
venial.
| At the doorway of most of the shops hang
| little sheet-iron boxes filled with lighted
Goals, at which the passers-by may light
cigars and on the balustrade of the staircase OF
every house stands small chafng-dish for
only thing for which aSpaniard does not
think it necessaIY to ask and thank with
ceremonious courtesy.
If he has permitted his cigar to go out he
steps up to the first man he meets-nOble-
man or galley-slave, as the case may be-and
the latter silently hands his smoking weed;
for it is impossible that two Spaniards should
meet and not have one lighted between them.
The light obtained, the lightee 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, how
ever omitted. Women smoke as well as
men; and ina full railroad car every person
man, woman and child-may be seen
smoking. To placard 'no smoking allowed" "
and enforce it, would ruin the road. A reg
ular smoker in Cuba will consume, perhaps,
twenty or thirty cigars day, but they are
all fresh. What we call fine old cigar a
Cuban would not smoke.